That's probably true.  While a ton of printers can print on both sides these days buy running the page through the printer twice, once for each side, for scanning, the scanner has to essentially have 2 complete scanners built into the system. If you do see what looks like a second scan head, it's more than likely a traveling back light for scanning transparencies, slides, and negatives. Brian Cluff On 02/25/2018 03:33 PM, Michael wrote: > I want to scan both sides of a page in one swoop. Now that I think of > it the hardware probably won't do it. I haven't found anything on > google to indicate it will do it. And I just realized that just > because it will print on both sides does not mean it will scan on both > sides. > > On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 4:23 PM, > wrote: > > 'to scan double sided pages' is a loaded, ambiguous and dense > statement. > Unless the hardware allows it, it is pointless to talk about it. > Besides, once the image is in the computer storage manipulable by > graphic software, then the detail becomes irrelevant, given that > you can mix-n-match the images as you see fit. > *IF*, however, the point to print in 'doable sided pages', the the > question to answer is radically different. > What are you trying to accomplish? > ET > > > Michael writes: > > Love xsane but I can't figure out how to scann double sided > pages. From my > googling of the issue there is supposed to be a checkbox but I > can't find > it. Can  ya give a poor soul some assistance? or else inform me of > sommething better than xsane? > xsane version 0.999 > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss