Steve,

I've had several Epson scanners and for the money they are excellent. 
Epson also publishes the API, from what I have heard, so SANE and 
general cross platform support is consistently better than for many of 
the other brands. They tend to be pretty fast too.

The most recent purchase (at work) was a 2400 Photo, an excellent 
scanner which I think is discontinued now and can be had for a song.

Chris Beaumont


On Saturday, January 17, 2004, at 08:43  PM, Steve Bellovin wrote:

> I'm contemplating getting a new USB scanner.  Any suggestions on what
> models work well with xsane (or whatever other pkgsrc program people
> recommend)?  I've seen the SANE "USB Scanners on Linux" page, but I
> figure that that's an upper bound on what works well on NetBSD.  (Note:
> usage will be rather casual; high end features are definitely not a
> "must".  Ease of use, NetBSD compatibility, Windows (sigh) software,
> and price are more important.)
>
> 		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
>