
A great scanner but tricky to use!

The LiDE 100 flatbed scanner is compact, handy, and easy to store when not in use. It is also available at a marvelously low price. For the first time that I know of, the mechanism operates with gears, not pulleys, meaning that the scans are unprecedentedly sharp and clear, with absolutely no dark patches. The drawback, however, is that you mustn't connect the scanner until the driver software has been installed. And then, after you've installed the driver, your system will no longer boot reliably, sometimes not booting at all, unless the scanner is connected. The trickiest part of this comes during installation. You cannot install the software if the scanner is connected. But if you allow the installation software to reboot the system automatically, it will try to boot before you've had a chance to connect the scanner! The solution to this is to cancel the automatic reboot, shut down the system yourself, then connect the scanner before rebooting.
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