plustek@linuxhacker.org

On Thursday 02 October 2003 00:41, Richard Urwin wrote:
> 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."

It will also not work with the plustek backend, and never will be, as the 1670
uses some othe chipset as the LM983x...
Maybe the Epson own backend will support this device in future...

> 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.
The 1260 is definitely not a good film scanner at all. I've not tested with
the Epson-Kowa backend but what do you expect from a 1200dpi scanner?

Seems you have to give it back - sorry
  Gerhard