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 no longer maintained but complete.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