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Subject: Epson 1670 anyone?
From: Richard Urwin
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 22:41:41 +0000

I have just received an Epson Perfection 1670 as a gift. The Epson Sane site 
says:  "The new EPSON Perfection 1670 is not and will not be supported by the 
EPSON backend. It seems to be based on a similar design as the Perfection 
1260, even though the name suggests that it is similar to the Perfection 
1660. I have not seen this scanner myself, so I don't know if it will work 
with the Plustek backend or not."

I now have to make a quick decision; do I keep it, or do I try to have it 
returned. Does anyone here have any experience of this particular beast? I 
have also heard rumers that the 1260 does not do very good film scanning 
under Linux. (Which I intend to do a lot of.) Might this be another good 
reason to reject it? Obviously I don't want to fiddle around with sending it 
back and trying to replace it with a 1660 if I am going to be OK with this 
one.

Thanks for any and all advice,

-- 
Richard Urwin