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
