On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 08:41:58PM -0400, m. allan noah wrote: > 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.
The answer is 'under $600', and the further the better. The eBay items you mention seem to fall inside that range and the scanner does look nice. Only down side is that I was hoping for 12x17 to cover the size of some common (for me) items.