[sane-devel] Fwd: I killed my Epson perfection 1260 photo. Twice.

[Jaeger, Gerhard]

Any comments on that?
Gerhard

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Subject: I killed my Epson perfection 1260 photo. Twice.
Date: 22 Oct 2002 16:03:03 +0200
From: Hein-Jan Leliveld <h.j.leliveld at student.tnw.tudelft.nl>
To: plustek at linuxhacker.org

Hello,

Last week I've bought an epson 1260 photo. After compiling the cvs
version of the backend (sane-backends-1.0.9-pre1) with the newest
plustek driver (Version 0.44 - 10-04-2002), and the frontend
(sane-frontends-1.0.9-pre1) everything worked like a charm. Except my
first scanner died after a few hours of scanning. In the middle of a
scan xsane suddenly segfaulted, and the 'on-light' on the scanner (the
left button of the scanner has a green light behind it if the power cord
is attached) was off. The light won't go on again, so it seems the
scanner is pretty broken. The scanner-head was somewhere in the middle
of the total scan-space.

It is always possible to have bad luck with machines, so I went back to
the shop were I bought the scanner, and without any problems got a new
replacement epson 1260. But today the same thing happened to my 'new'
scanner: in a middle of a scan the epson dies.... I think I have used
the new scanner for about 1 hour today, 3 hours yesterday and 3 hours 4
days ago.

I always unplugged the power cord when I didn't use the scanner (why
don't they make an on/off switch on those scanners??!)

It seems really strange to me to have the exact problem twice in a week
with the same type and model scanner. Maybe there is some problem with
the plustek driver? Are there any users of the epson 1260 photo who
don't have their scanner killed within a week of use?

Greetings,

Hein-Jan Leliveld