You did not say how much you are willing to spend, but cheap A3 machines with real SANE support (not some binary garbage) are not very common. I would be inclined to look for used Fujitsu. Mike Wirth was offering an fi-4750 just a couple weeks ago. Even better, there are a number of used fi-5750C units on ebay.
allan On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Dale Amon <amon at vnl.com> wrote: > I have been perusing the various offerings in the A3 flatbed scanner niche as > a replacement for my painfully slow Mustek A3 1200Pro, which does not even > scan the entire 12x17 area, making it actually pretty useless for some > things. > > I can hardly imagine a more experience crew than here on the topic of what > A3 flatbeds are fast, reliable, give nice sharp images and most importantly > are well supported. I have looked at entries in the db but before I plop > down hard cash I'd like advice from people who have already used them. > > I am doing archive scanning for the National Space Society and have lots of > odd sized and sometimes non-bendable things, so I have to use a flatbed for > those items... I am using the marvelous Fujitsu ScanSnap for pretty much > anything bendably letter sized. > > I was a bit interested in the Plustek OpticPro A320, but it does not seem to > be supported yet. I'm a bit fed up with Mustek's recent offerings and the > fact they do not support their older ones on 64b linux... I have to run my > Mustek off a 32b virtual machine with an ancient copy of sane because they > do not give you the ability to recompile the driver to run on anything new. > A few years ago I spent a good bit of money on an HP model whose page feeder > never worked right... every time you told it to scan it went through several > pages from the feeder. It became an expensive door stop. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://sane.10972.n7.nabble.com/A3-flatbed-scanners-tp17929.html > Sent from the SANE - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
