Hi! It may be time for a new scanner.
For years I have used a Visioneer OneTouch 7100 usb flatbed scanner on various x86 computers running various versions of Debian and simple-scan. Currently: Debian Unstable (updated, of course) Linux 5.10.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.28-1 (2021-04-09) x86_64 GNU/Linux Cinnamon 4.8.6-2 Dell Inspiron 3542 (laptop, circa 2015), 64-bit Scanner software: simple-scan, from Debian Unstable repositories Use case: light duty home use. For years it worked "okay". But it suddenly started producing scans with a narrow pink stripe down the left side of the scan image produced. I tried installing xsane (too complicated for me), which I did not configure at all. And if I just clicked the scan button in xsane it would "dim out" and then do nothing. As a bonus, simple-scan then no longer worked; upon clicking scan in simple-scan it would just do nothing, with a rotating "activity busy" circle displaying indefinitely. So I uninstalled (purged) both xsane and simple-scan, re-installed simple-scan, then rebooted. Simple-scan now "works", but still produces the pink stripe down the image left side, just as before. : ( Note: the scanner is (about) 20 years, so no parts or service available from Visioneer. : ( So . . . Can anyone recommend a good replacement scanner? I am really hoping to get something that works "out of the box", with little or no configuration, etc.
