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<body text="#333333" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div dir="auto">Thanks for reporting back. I couldn't take HP's silliness anymore and also got a Brother. I too have been impressed with how it "just works" without installing anything. Windows and Linux.<br></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto">On May 10, 2025 4:47:40 AM UTC, AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<font face="Calibri">Hi All, <br>
I thought I'd report back with my results. <br>
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At first I was going to go with the Espon ES-50. While Epson
provides drivers for Linux, they don't "officially" support Linux.
Whereas, Brother does officially support Linux. I also have a
Brother laser printer that "just works" with all my other Linux
machines. </font><font face="Calibri">I ultimately went with a
Brother DS-640.<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.amazon.com/Brother-DS-640-Compact-Document-Scanner/dp/B083R36CY4">https://www.amazon.com/Brother-DS-640-Compact-Document-Scanner/dp/B083R36CY4</a></font>
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Got it today and plugged it in. I installed the driver downloaded
from Brother (.deb package). I loaded Xsane per Der Hans'
recommendation. Everything works just fine. About as plug and play
as you can get. While Xsane works great, it's a bit to
"full-featured" for me. I'm running Kubuntu, KDE has a built in
app called Skanpage, that does a great job for me with a simpler
interface.<br>
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Overall, very pleased with the whole experience.<br>
And today I also received all the hard copy documents that I must
now scan. :)<br>
<br>
Peter<br>
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On 5/6/25 19:56, der.hans wrote:<br>
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moin moin,
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I've switched my "daily driver" computer to Linux (Kubuntu 24.04) and have been able to get almost everything working since my transition from Win 10 a few weeks ago. However, I cannot get my old Plustek scanner to work at all. Since it's so old, I'm just going to get a new one.
I'm looking for a simple single page USB scanner (just like my old Plustek). What brand/model can someone recommend that they have found to work well under Linux? Also, what scanning utility is recommended? I'm looking for a GUI application. I don't scan a lot of documents, but occasionally (like now) I'm given some hard copies of important documents and I have to scan them into PDF format.
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I've been using xsane for scanning for many years. I only connect via USB.
Brother has been supporting their printers and scanners on Linux for
years. When I first bought mine the printer worked out of the box. At the
time it required a proprietary driver for the scanner, but I didn't need
to scan, so didn't install the driver. After upgrading to debian 12 xsane
could recognize and use the scanner.
I switched to Brother after tiring of HP messing with their printer
inks. HP scanners probably still work well.
For space reasons I've stuck with printer/scanner combos, though I only
print things a couple times a year. Moving to Brother laser printer from
HP inkjet has been the best thing for that.
ciao,
der.hans
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