[sane-devel] Epson Perfection 1260 Questions

[Gerhard Jaeger]

Hi,



On Donnerstag, 28. November 2002 16:29, Marcel Oliver wrote:
> Hi, I have just bought an Epson Perfection 1260 scanner, primarily
> because Epson makes an explicit effort to support their hardware on
> Linux.
>
> The scanner mostly works, but I have a few minor problems:
>
> - When using the plustek backend, scanning works, but prior to
>   starting the scan the scanner makes unusual noises which it does not
>   do with the Epson's own driver.  I noticed some reports about
>   damaged Epson scanners on this list.  Is this related?

the "noise" at the beginning is the calibration step and will be currentl=
y
done before each scan - this should cause no problem so far.

>
>   In certain scanning modes the scanner keeps making noise and does
>   not even get started with the scan.  I can give some more
>   information if that's useful, but prefer not to experiment too much
>   for obvious reasons...

Here we are! The EPSON motors seem to have sometimes problems
when "overclocking" them...
I can understand that you won't test too much, I currently received
some money from the USB-beany award to buy an EPSON 1260 Photo
and to check this problem. Hopefully I can solve it within the next weeks
(depends on how fast I got this device)...

Gerhard