Philip J. Hollenback wrote: > This scanner is destined > to replace a fax machine and so must have and automatic document > feeder capable of holding 50 sheets. It also needs to work with a > linux system
My private scanner and printer is a Brother MFC 3420C (http://www.brother.com/europe/fax/info/mfc3420c/mfc3420c_ove.html). It is a scan/print/copy/fax combination, which I bought mainly for ADF scanning, but now use for printing, too. It was much cheaper than a scanner-only device with additional ADF support (about 150 EUR). According to my experiences it's about 50 pages that you can feed in per batch, a web-page at Brother I found says 20 pages, but I'm quite sure it's more with 'normal' paper... maybe it's possible to try it out in a shop. The Linux support is GREAT. Brother offers both SANE-drivers and lpr-drivers (for printing) by themselves (http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/sane_drivers.html, http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/lpr_drivers.html), and both installed and work without problems. Unlike most other cheap scan/print/copy/fax devices, it can scan both via ADF and via flatbed, many such devices have ADF only. The disadvantage of this is that it's quite a big box. (Looks like a photocopier washed too hot, like 50% of the size of a 'real' photocopier.) If the images you are going to scan are fax-like quality, and not art-paintings (as your mail suggests), this may be useful to you. If you don't need an optional flatbed, maybe another device of that company is suitable - I think their Linux support is worth to take a look at. Hope this is helpful, Jens
