On 9/15/06, Carl Parrish wrote: > > I've gotten several HP all in one fax / printer / copier / scanner and > so far I've never been able to get the scanner to work with my linux > boxes. So now I'm just looking for a flat bed scanner doesn't need to be > all that fast but has to be *very* clear. I think I'd prefer if it was a > USB scanner. Other than that I don't have much of a feature list. It > would be nice if it was under $200.00. I'm going to look on the web but > thought I'd ask the collective first. I'm not sure what *very* clear is, but I've had good luck with my Canon LiDE 25 from newegg for $43. I use it mainly for scanning in lineart from drawings and vectorizing them in inkscape. Ubuntu is what it runs on, and it powers off the USB, so there isn't a power cord getting in the way. I looked at the SANE supported devices list before I got it too. Here is the link if you need: http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html