plustek@linuxhacker.org

Hi,

I just killed my Epson 1260U scanner using Sane + Plustek. :-)

...and I used that opportunity to browse through this 
mailinglist's archive, and I learned that I wasn't the only one 
with that problem. In fact, the problem seems to be well known, 
since there was a detailed description + how to repair hints of 
8 Dec 2002 
(http://www.linuxhacker.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:msp:1808:fhgoggfpgjggmbnogdap).

Oh well.

How about putting a big, red, warning sign just right in that 
'supported scanners' table with a pointer - or even better - a 
copy of this thread? It seems like the problem could be avoided 
easily. It seems like an already damaged scanner is fairly easy 
to repair. I think this information should be made easier 
accessible, since it may be useful to several users.

It is sad that in all the research I did before buying that 
scanner, I never found any warnings that it could actually be 
damaged by sane or this backend. There were lots of warnings for 
other models, though... 

I understand that this is entirely Epson's fault, not yours. No 
such device should possibly be damaged by software. But it 
happens, and it can't be helped. So please do put a warning 
there. Before it happens to even more people. Do it now. 

Thank you.

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    - Andreas Klauer -