Never heard of this problem, never had it myself, although I don't use
the line art mode at all. Even so, you could always do color or grayscale
scans and do the thresholding afterwards...
> Q: Confirm: The card it ships with is 25 pin SCSI so I will need
> some convertors
Mine came with a useless SCSI card. The connector on the scanner and card
are both 25-pin D shell. I got a 25-50 SCSI cable for about $15 to connect
to my AHA 1542CF card (which also has all my internal disks on it. No
problems so far. The cable is often called a "Mac SCSI cable" and can be
had for relatively cheap. If you don't already have a SCSI card, the
Future Domain 830 card (and probably others in the family) have an external
25 D connector on them, and I just got one for $15 at a surplus store.
> Q: Comes with SCSI terminator? Needs one? Built-in?
Yes, it includes a 25D terminator for the second port on the scanner.
> Other drawbacks/inconveniences:
> - No on/off switch
True, but the lamp turns itself off after a while...
> - lid hinge may snap if raised to too great an angle
Don't do that
> - bad docs but good web troubleshooting guide
Never used em, since they don't mention Linux at all anyways...
> - lock/unlock switch needs to be in middle for proper operation
never had that problem
Cheers, Andreas
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