Success: EPSON Perfection 1260/Photo USB flatbed scanner

[Michael Heiming]

Hi,

after managing to print [url]http://panda.mostang.com/sane/sane-mfgs.html[/url]
on a few pages, I went out and looked for a new scanner, the light of
my old SCSI scanner broke some time ago and of course it wasn't possible
to get a spare part.;(

"EPSON Perfection 1260/Photo USB" was the first one supported I could find.

Updated some packages (The ones coming with RH 7.3 were too old):

sane-frontends-1.0.11-1.rh7
xsane-0.91-1
sane-backends-devel-1.0.12-1
xsane-gimp-0.91-1
sane-backends-1.0.12-1

Astonishing, there is GUI-sw directly from Epson (iscan-1.5.2-1) working
fine too:

[url]http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/linux.html[/url]

From /etc/modules.conf:
alias char-major-180 scanner
options scanner vendor=0x04b8 product=0x011d

The following modules are needed:

scanner 10976 0
usb-uhci 24132 0 (unused)
usbcore 76992 1 [scanner usb-uhci visor usbserial]

Now the scanner should be recognized:

$ scanimage -L
device `epkowa:/dev/usb/scanner0' is a Epson GT-7300 flatbed scanner
device `plustek:/dev/usb/scanner0' is a Epson Perfection 1260/Photo USB flatbed scanner

Works great within gimp.;)

Happy scanning!

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Michael Heiming

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[dave Stanton]

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 08:52:05 +0200, Michael Heiming wrote:

> Hi,
>
> after managing to print [url]http://panda.mostang.com/sane/sane-mfgs.html[/url]
> on a few pages, I went out and looked for a new scanner, the light of
> my old SCSI scanner broke some time ago and of course it wasn't possible
> to get a spare part.;(
>
> "EPSON Perfection 1260/Photo USB" was the first one supported I could find.

> Works great within gimp.;)
>
> Happy scanning!

Drop an email to Epson. Let them know how pleased you are. It will show
them it worth supporting Linux.

Dave

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