[sane-devel] Epson Artisan 710 support

Grant emailgrant at gmail.com
Fri May 21 00:56:52 UTC 2010


>>> Thanks for the samples. I've never seen this particular problem before.
>>> I'll
>>> have to take a crack at seeing if I can reproduce this to make 100% sure
>>> it's not an issue with your hardware. You'll have to hang tight before I
>>> can
>>> find an Artisan 710 and some free time to investigate.
>
> I couldn't get hold of an Artisan 710, so I instead used an Artisan 700 as
> you mentioned that the problem affected this scanner as well.
>
> I tried scanning with scanimage at 75, 150 and 300 dpi both with the latest
> development version of iscan and with iscan 2.21. Unfortunately, I was
> unable to reproduce the problem seen in the sample image you sent me.
>
> At this point I honestly don't know what the problem could be. A faulty USB
> cable perhaps? Just grasping at straws here. I am going to ask around a bit
> more to see if anyone else has seen this phenomenon before. I'll let you
> know if I dig anything up, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

Just for the record, I tried another USB cable with the same results.
I was also using the scanner connected to a scan server before, and I
just tried it connected directly to my laptop with the same results.

- Grant



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