Hi, this is my first post on this forum and I hope I am doing it right. My question: I am using Ubuntu and I need a - hardware - scanner with an USB interface. I live in the netherlands. Do you have any tips?

You can try the following site to see if you can find one that's listed that you can buy. Most printers and scanners use a USB interface (in a lot of cases ethernet too). Scanners in Linux are generally supported through the SANE API.

http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html

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A multifunction printer would be a good choice if buying a printer is an option. I would recommend an HP printer. I have found (through limited experience) that canon and epson printers will scan but their linux support is not stellar, in fact it is a real pain to get them to scan in linux. HP, on the other hand provides HPLIP for you to install which, through CUPS and SANE makes their printers work very well with linux.

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We've reached the stage where multifunction printers often cost less than stand alone scanners.

Brother multifunction printers work well. Epsons vary, some are easy to set up. I wrote Canon off a long time ago because of their state of Linux support - things may have changed but I'm not about to risk my money on one.

So HP, Brother and at least some Epsons should just work, others will need a little or a lot of work.

i already have a printer whitch is doing well. but thanks anyway

As it has been suggested, check to see that Sane (the backend for Xsane) supports the scanner you decide to purchase.
I've found that while HP provides excellent Linux support for their printers and "all-in-one" office products, their Linux support for their stand-alone flatbed scanners is poor to nonexistent.

Good to know, thanks.

I use a HP flatbed scanner which was rescued from a builders skip about 10 years ago.
Still works with SANE.

Mine will work with sane/xsane, but the result are very poor. As I've said before, when this topic has come up, I've spent hours and hours trying to get good results with xsane. So many hours it would probably add up to days, if not a week or so.
As I use the scanner regularly, I finally installed VirtualBox and into that windows XP and into that the HP windows drivers. Perfect results the first time and every time.

Xerox printer fan here - the phaser series lasers are well supported on linux. I have a Canon LiDE 220 flatbed scanner for photos and it is also well supported using sane 1.027 or later. I tend to shy away from HP printers only because their toner cartridges are really expensive. Brother's work well but some of them use proprietary blobs for drivers. Their toner cartridges are inexpensive though.

I don't like multifunction devices at all but they are great for saving desk space. I say that because the last multifunction device I had was a brother and the scanner was terrible: poor quality captures. It is rather old though so perhaps the newer ones are better. My Canon does 4800x4800 and the Brother does 600x2400.

Yasmean,

I have a Canon LiDE 210 which works perfectly with Linux Mint and Simple Scan. As sevendogsbsd points out, the 220 model also works fine.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07G1W8SHN/ref=dp_cerb_1

The more recent 300 and 400 models do need some minor tweaking, but they will work:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1107...n-ubuntu-18-04


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