[sane-devel] Fwd: I killed my Epson perfection 1260 photo. Twice.

[Till Kamppeter]

I have done a lot of scans on the Epson Perfection Photo 1260 and it 
always worked and still works like charm. I had even a crash in the 
middle of a scan with the scanhead hanging around in the middle of the 
case. I simply started xsane again, the scan head went back and I 
continued scanning.

So for mne it seems that Epson has delivered a bad series of scanners 
and you dealer has now a big stack of scanners which break after a few 
hours using.

    Till



Jaeger, Gerhard wrote:
> Any comments on that?
> Gerhard
> 
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> 
> Subject: I killed my Epson perfection 1260 photo. Twice.
> Date: 22 Oct 2002 16:03:03 +0200
> From: Hein-Jan Leliveld <h.j.leliveld@student.tnw.tudelft.nl>
> To: plustek@linuxhacker.org
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Last week I've bought an epson 1260 photo. After compiling the cvs
> version of the backend (sane-backends-1.0.9-pre1) with the newest
> plustek driver (Version 0.44 - 10-04-2002), and the frontend
> (sane-frontends-1.0.9-pre1) everything worked like a charm. Except my
> first scanner died after a few hours of scanning. In the middle of a
> scan xsane suddenly segfaulted, and the 'on-light' on the scanner (the
> left button of the scanner has a green light behind it if the power cord
> is attached) was off. The light won't go on again, so it seems the
> scanner is pretty broken. The scanner-head was somewhere in the middle
> of the total scan-space.
> 
> It is always possible to have bad luck with machines, so I went back to
> the shop were I bought the scanner, and without any problems got a new
> replacement epson 1260. But today the same thing happened to my 'new'
> scanner: in a middle of a scan the epson dies.... I think I have used
> the new scanner for about 1 hour today, 3 hours yesterday and 3 hours 4
> days ago.
> 
> I always unplugged the power cord when I didn't use the scanner (why
> don't they make an on/off switch on those scanners??!)
> 
> It seems really strange to me to have the exact problem twice in a week
> with the same type and model scanner. Maybe there is some problem with
> the plustek driver? Are there any users of the epson 1260 photo who
> don't have their scanner killed within a week of use?