plustek@linuxhacker.org

Andreas,

sorry for the damage. I've just updated the download page. Can you
please check it and give me some feedback...

Gerhard

On Freitag, 2. Mai 2003 19:56, Andreas Klauer wrote:
> 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:fhgoggfpgjggmbnogd
>ap).
>
> 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.