plustek@linuxhacker.org

Subject: Re: I killed my Epson perfection 1260 photo. Twice.
From: Jaeger, Gerhard
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 19:57:02 +0200

On Thursday, 24. October 2002 18:27, Arjan wrote:
> Hein-Jan Leliveld wrote:
> > One strange thing: the scannerlight of the epson never went off if I
> > scanned with the plustek backend. So if I scanned for 4 hours, the
> > scanner light was on for four hours. That was the reason I unplugged the
> > power if I wasn't using the scanner; it seems to me it can't be good for
> > a scanner to let the light burn all the time.
>
> I've noticed the same behaviour with my scanner, an HP Scanjet 2100C.
> This could be related to the Linux scanner modele, or to the Plustek
> backend, or maybe it's just some setting in a config file.
>
Hi the light off problem should be fixed with sane-1.0.9 or at least
plustek-sane-0_44_10...
It was a backend bug!

Gerhard