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A family member still uses a old SCSI Mustek flat bed scanner. |
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( Paragon 1200 SP ?? / last windows driver was for Win2K ). |
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Works just fine. The Linux drivers are old, but nothing wrong with them. |
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On 11/10/18 6:35 PM, Dale wrote: |
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> Howdy, |
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> I'm on the hunt for a scanner, flatbed type, and have been browsing Ebay |
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> and the sane project list of supported devices. I'm leaning toward HP |
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> on this. While looking at say a ScanJet 6200C, it says the drivers are |
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> no longer maintained but complete. It leads me to this question. Does |
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> that mean they are complete and fixes will no longer be made even if |
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> something breaks them and they need a little tweaking OR they are |
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> complete and if a bug pops up, they will be fixed as needed but all |
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> functions work? I can see the logic either way on this. I'm leaning |
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> toward the side that if something pops up that requires a little |
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> tweaking, it will be done by someone. The drivers are just feature |
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> complete. |
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> Does anyone else have the same thinking or is buying one of these |
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> scanners a bad idea if the drivers were to break and the scanner was |
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> rendered no longer usable? |
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> Thanks. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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