plustek: problems with epson perfection 1260 and 1.0.15
Subject:
Re: problems with epson perfection 1260 and 1.0.15
From:
Gerhard Jaeger ####@####.####
Date:
20 Dec 2004 08:00:30 +0000
Message-Id: <200412200859.49171.gerhard@gjaeger.de>
Hi Dale,
On Sunday 19 December 2004 23:23, Dale E. Martin wrote:
> Hello. I've been running sane (1.0.7) from Debian stable for a long time
> and recently upgraded to sarge, which contains 1.0.15 of libsane.
> Fortunately I never ran at a high resolution with the old version and it
> worked well. Since I've upgraded I've had a couple of problems. One is
> that as the scanner runs, I can hear what sound like pauses and the
> resulting scan is missing small slices. See this photo for an example:
> http://maui.doit.org/~dmartin/scanned-with-sane.jpg
>
> Also when the scan has completed and the scanner is driving the CCD back
> into its parked position it's making a fairly loud "clunk" at the end that
> it did not used to.
>
> I was a little concerned that the old driver had messed the stepper motor
> up (the timing seemed pretty suspect though, coinciding exactly with the
> software upgrade!) so I grabbed another (commercial) app's trial version to
> make sure it wasn't the scanner. Here is the scan from that:
> http://maui.doit.org/~dmartin/scanned-with-vuescan.jpg
>
> No horizontal lines... Any known issues with this combination? Should I
> file a bug report either with Debian or somewhere else? Let me know if any
> additional info is needed.
on thursday last week, I got a similary report from another guy. I'm working
on that and hopefully I'm able to submit a patch before christmas.
If you have the chance, please downgrade to the earlier 1.0.14 version and try
again.
Ciao,
Gerhard
>
> Thanks,
> Dale
