On Monday 13 January 2003 13:23, Karl Heinz Kremer wrote: >Gene Heskett said: >> On Monday 13 January 2003 03:38, Klaas Freitag wrote: >>>On Sunday 12 January 2003 22:10, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> We are now in feature freeze for SANE 1.0.10. That means, no >>>> more features are allowed to be included in CVS. Bug fixes and >>>> documentation updates are allowed, however. >>>> >>>> Further time table: >>>> 2003-01-25: Code freeze >>>> 2003-02-01: Release >>> >>>Hi, >>> >>>I was notified that Epson released a new frontend, Image Scan! >>> for linux. It is limited to Epson devices. The source code >>> distribution contains a epson.c and dll-code. Is that the same >>> as that in SANE 1.0.10? > >The backend in IScan is a heavily modified 1.0.5 version of the > EPSON backends. Some of the changes in the official backend went > into the IScan backend, but it's based on a fairly old version. > >> No. Thats for driving the USB based 1250u and 1260u, and >> possibly one or 2 others. I use it here, albeit in a >> roundabout way. the > >The IScan backend supports pretty much all EPSON scanners (with > the exception of the Perfection 660, which is a new scanner only > sold in Europe, and the Perfection 600, which is supported by one > of the other Sane backends). > >[ ... ] > >> The epson code in the sane-backends package is AFAIK, for the >> parallel port or possibly scsi port epsons, but thats a wild >> guess on my part, I've never tried to use it here. > >That's a pretty wild guess...
We sometimes call those SWAG, for Scientific Wild Assed Guess. :) Been known to make them before. The official EPSON backend supports > all EPSON scanners with the exception of the Perfection > 600/650/1250/1260. Some of >the older par-port scanners may also not work, but at least their > command language is supported :-) -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
