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Canon CanoScan FB 630P
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3 3668 04-17-2007
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Recommended By Average Price Average Rating
67% of reviewers $25.00 3.0



Description: This is a parallel port scanner produced by Canon.
Very low price about 30US$ and "made for windows", thus not very well supported under linux - not for newbies, as you have to make and install yourself.

If you compile
Keywords: Canon Scan 630P scanner
Connection Type: Parallel


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Old 02-13-2004, 12:43 PM   #1
deloptes
 
Registered: Feb 2004
Distribution: debian etch and SUSE 10.2
Posts: 122
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $25.00 | Rating: 2

Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.24-EMO
Distribution: Debian Woody



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I had to recompile the hole packeges concerning the scanner device as this model is not supported by default.

Afterwords I activated the new driver and I think the quality is better than under windows.

anyway the new usb scanners are much much better
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Old 03-11-2004, 08:42 AM   #2
cockroach
 
Registered: Mar 2004
Posts: 0
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 4

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.3
Distribution: Debian Sarge


Just needed to add Parallel Port support to the kernel. However, at high resolutions I often get I/O errors.
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Old 04-17-2007, 08:26 PM   #3
Jorophose
 
Registered: Oct 2006
Distribution: Xubuntu 6.06!! =D
Posts: 143
Would you recommend the product? no | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 3

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.15
Distribution: Xubuntu 6.06


The product is alright under Windows.

It's a #$% under Linux. If you see this in stores today, avoid it like the plague.

If you had one in a bundle from 1999 that's still haunting you (Like what's happening to me) then good luck; I don't think it'll work straight out-of-the-box with any distro, but I think there's a SourceForge project with a decent driver.

Do yourself a favour and get a nice HP if you can.
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