good scanner: epson?

f.kater · Guru Joined: 23 May 2002 Posts: 342 Location: Berlin

Hi,

before I get crazy with my UMAX scanner I'll look for another. But before I do that I'd like to ask here for your experiences. I am looking for an USB scanner which can scan dia/negatives.

Any experience with epson perfection 1660? Coming from sane's scanner driver database it seems that HP is not as well supported as epson.

Any experience with dia / negative scanning under linux?

Does anyone know if a USB2.0 scanner will work with a USB1 motherboard?

Does epson make their scanner's specifications available to driver programmers? HP seems so, but UMAX don't.

Slurp53 · Apprentice Joined: 14 Jun 2002 Posts: 255 Location: Iowa

I have an Epson 2400 (next step up from 1660) scanner that works perfectly. Using xsane for a front end. Works so good under linux I haven't even installed it under windoze. Xsane supports the scanning of negatives with this scanner, but I have never tried it to see how it works. It is advertised as a usb2.0 scanner but works fine in my 1.1 ports.

I also had a HP3300c working very well. But you have to manually install the backend for this from sourceforge.net and I had to go back a couple of versions of the sane-backend to make it work.

Hope that helps

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f.kater · Guru Joined: 23 May 2002 Posts: 342 Location: Berlin

Thanks, Slurp53.

Meanwhile I have also read other opinions about epson perfection 1660 photo in google groups. And they all agree that this must be a damn good scanner and work very well with linux.

According to them scanning of negatives also seems to be no problem.

Btw: Someone mentioned that epson somehow work together closely with the people from sane. That's pretty cool. So, even if epson's printers have never convinced me - with scanners it seems to be another thing.

I'm gonna buy it then. Alea iacta est...!

Praxxus · Last edited by Praxxus on Wed Apr 02, 2003 7:26 pm; edited 1 time in total

On Edit: Added the /etc/sane.d/epson.conf settings, as mentioned below by Slurp53.

I just bought an Epson 1660 yesterday, and it works like a champ (with USB 1 on the motherboard)! So far I'm using Kooka and/or QuiteInsane on the frontend, and it's AWESOME.

The (very) few things I did to get it working:

(note you should have usb scanner support compiled as a kernel module)

Check /etc/sane.d/epson.conf settings. The ONLY uncommented line in my file is:

whitenoise · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2003 9:50 am Post subject:

Hi praxxus, I followed your instructions, but my 1660 doesn't work !!!

Can you help me? If i run sane-findscanner -v i got

Slurp53 · Apprentice Joined: 14 Jun 2002 Posts: 255 Location: Iowa

Seems to me there was a sane-backend config file for epson that had to be tweeked to tell it that sane that it should be looking for a usb scanner and not something else. I'm at work now. If you can't find I'll look it up when I get home.

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xenon · Guru Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 432 Location: Europe

I haven't managed to get my Epson 1260 USB scanner to work... It appears in the usb detection at boot time (along with my other USB devices, that work), but then everything's as if it didn't exist. USB and USB scanners are enabled in kernel... I am clueless. Can anyone help?

Slurp53 · Apprentice Joined: 14 Jun 2002 Posts: 255 Location: Iowa

I don't believe the Epson 1260 is supported by the Epson Sane backend.

Check this out.http://www.gjaeger.de/scanner/plustek.html
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xenon · Guru Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 432 Location: Europe

Thanks. I went there (I had already been there a while ago, actually) and found this:

whitenoise · Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2003 8:14 pm Post subject:

Slurp53, I'm not able to use my scanner. Can you chack your backend config file?

Thanks!
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Juki · n00b Joined: 07 Dec 2002 Posts: 19 Location: Finland

I have Epson 1260 scanner. Here is my /etc/sane.d/plustek.conf

[snip]
#
# The USB section:
# each device needs at least two lines:
# - [usb] vendor-ID and product-ID
# - device devicename
# i.e. for Plustek (0x07B3) UT12/16/24 (0x0017)
[usb] 0x04B8 0x011D
device /dev/usb/scanner0
[snip]

And I have done thinks Praxxus mentioned.

whitenoise · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 3:46 pm Post subject:

Thank you!

Really, thanks. My scanner is now working!

I sold my old HP because it wasn't supported by sane, and bought my epson.
Now it's time for printer..........
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Praxxus · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2003 6:47 am Post subject:

Whoops. Sorry, Whitenoise. I've not been reading the forums for a while. Glad you got it working!

I just bought/got working an Epson Stylus C62 printer. Works great!

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whitenoise · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2003 12:02 pm Post subject:

No problem Praxxus!

My Canon BJC6000 didn't print for more than a year and now it has all the cartridge k.o. I was oriented to a DeskJet like 6112 with duplex support.
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