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Subject: I killed my Epson perfection 1260 photo. Twice. Date: 22 Oct 2002 16:03:03 +0200 From: Hein-Jan Leliveld <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Hello, Last week I've bought an epson 1260 photo. After compiling the cvs version of the backend (sane-backends-1.0.9-pre1) with the newest plustek driver (Version 0.44 - 10-04-2002), and the frontend (sane-frontends-1.0.9-pre1) everything worked like a charm. Except my first scanner died after a few hours of scanning. In the middle of a scan xsane suddenly segfaulted, and the 'on-light' on the scanner (the left button of the scanner has a green light behind it if the power cord is attached) was off. The light won't go on again, so it seems the scanner is pretty broken. The scanner-head was somewhere in the middle of the total scan-space. It is always possible to have bad luck with machines, so I went back to the shop were I bought the scanner, and without any problems got a new replacement epson 1260. But today the same thing happened to my 'new' scanner: in a middle of a scan the epson dies.... I think I have used the new scanner for about 1 hour today, 3 hours yesterday and 3 hours 4 days ago. I always unplugged the power cord when I didn't use the scanner (why don't they make an on/off switch on those scanners??!) It seems really strange to me to have the exact problem twice in a week with the same type and model scanner. Maybe there is some problem with the plustek driver? Are there any users of the epson 1260 photo who don't have their scanner killed within a week of use? Greetings, Hein-Jan Leliveld
