[sane-devel] Epson Perfection 3490 PHOTO

[Oliver Schwartz]

Hi,

> Does all this mean that I need to load some firmware onto the
> scanner before I can use it, or should it work out-of-the-box with
> the snapscan backend?

Yes and no. The backend will download the firmware to the scanner 
automatically (as does the windows driver). See 
http://snapscan.sourceforge.net for more information.

The firmware is only loaded into the internal RAM of the scanner. Once 
you switch off the scanner it is restored to it's original state.

/Oliver