{"id":3050,"date":"2011-05-17T05:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T09:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/?p=3050"},"modified":"2011-05-10T19:45:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T23:45:51","slug":"my-hp-scanner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/my-hp-scanner\/","title":{"rendered":"My HP Scanner"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, I talked a little bit about scanning my comic strip.\u00a0 Back in 2009, I blogged on OneClickLinux.com<\/a> about buying and setting up a new scanner.\u00a0 I thought it’d be helpful to re-post the info here. <\/em><\/p>\n

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The HP Scanjet 8250 Scanner that I use in my studio.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

My new (actually refurbished) scanner arrived last week and I’ve been putting it through the paces here in my studio.<\/p>\n

It’s an HP Scanjet 8250<\/a>. It has an automatic document feeder and a flat bed scanning area of 8.5 x 14 inches.\u00a0 This larger scanning area comes in handy because I draw my comic strip 4 inches by 13 inches.<\/p>\n

In a previous post<\/a>, I was looking at modifying the size of my comic strip template and drawing it a bit smaller to accommodate my Umax scanner.\u00a0 I used Scribus<\/a> to design the template and was all set to go when a Freespire community member<\/a> pointed out how this HP scanner was at geeks.com<\/a> for only $65.00<\/a>.\u00a0 I jumped on the deal! (Note: Freespire is no longer an active Linux distribution. I have since swiched to PCLinuxOS<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

The scanner is wonderful!\u00a0\u00a0 And the really great thing is, Xsane<\/a> supports it. All I had to do was pull the scanner out of the box, plug in to my USB port on my Linux system, power up, and I was scanning!\u00a0\u00a0 No software or drivers to install.\u00a0 Xsane was already in place to handle the scanner.\u00a0 (and Xsane and Kooka<\/a> both support the ADF feature!)<\/p>\n

Here’s the neat thing.\u00a0 I’ve been using a Umax scanner in Linux for the last year or so.\u00a0\u00a0 All I did was unplug it, then plug in the HP scanner and Linux did all the rest!\u00a0\u00a0 The HP scanner was up and running in an instant!<\/p>\n

Each scanner just works in Linux!\u00a0 It’s true plug ‘n play.<\/p>\n

Since I\u00a0 run a rack system, I plugged in windows XP to see how the HP scanner would fare compared to Linux.<\/p>\n

30 minutes later, I was still installing drivers and software. I had to restart the system a couple of times, as well.<\/p>\n

After finally getting all the necessary software installed (some would not install.\u00a0 I have to check with geeks.com<\/a> for another disk),\u00a0 the scanner worked nicely.\u00a0\u00a0 But, it did take about 30-40 minutes for software and drivers to install.<\/p>\n

So, I’m quite happy with my new scanner.\u00a0 It allows me to scan larger pieces so I can continue to draw my George comic strip 4 inches by 13 inches.<\/p>\n

And Linux<\/a> and Xsane support this scanner, so set up was a snap!\u00a0 I plugged in and was scanning in less than 30 seconds!<\/p>\n

Get Linux! <\/a><\/p>\n

(Editor\u2019s note: <\/strong> This article by Mark Szorady contains material from a blog post that previously appeared on oneclicklinux.com<\/a>.\u00a0 We felt it would be informative here on georgetoon.com<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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