[sane-devel] Information about new EPSON Scanner "Perfection 1670"

[khk at khk.net]

THis is not a coincidence: That's the same guy, and I told him that
he had a better chance to get his scanner to work if he gets in touch
with you :-)

It looks like Epson is selling these new devices first in Australia. Here
in the US they are still marked as "not available" on the EPson web page.

Don't know what the situation in Europe is.

Karl Heinz

> Quite funny,
>
> I already got one request this morning from a guy in Australia who ordered
> the 1660 and got the 1670...
> If it's similar (by means of the chipset) to the 1260, then it should be
> no
> big deal to support this scanner with the plustek backend...
>
> Ciao
>    Gerhard
>
>
> On Mittwoch, 13. August 2003 02:45, Karl Heinz Kremer wrote:
>> The new EPSON Perfection 1670 is not and will not be supported by the
>> EPSON backend.
>> It's design seems to be similar to the Perfection 1260, which is
>> supported by the Plustek
>> backend. I have not seen this new scanner, so I don't know if it really
>> falls into the same
>> category as the Perfection 1670.
>>
>> The /proc/bus/usb/devices output  looks similar (at least it has an
>> interrupt endpoint):
>>
>> E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   2 Ivl=256ms
>> T:  Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=05 Cnt=01 Dev#=  2 Spd=480 MxCh= 0
>> D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff MxPS=64 #Cfgs=  1
>> P:  Vendor=04b8 ProdID=011f Rev= 1.07
>> S:  Manufacturer=EPSON
>> S:  Product=EPSON Scanner
>> C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr=100mA
>> I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=usbscanner
>> E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
>> E:  Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
>> E:  Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   8 Ivl=4096ms
>>
>> I already know of one unlucky customer who thought because the model
>> number
>> was similar than the 1660, it would work the same way.
>>
>> Karl Heinz
>>
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