plustek: Problems in getting the EPSON1250 work
Subject:
Re: Problems in getting the EPSON1250 work
From:
Gene Heskett ####@####.####
Date:
3 Mar 2002 14:42:05 -0000
Message-Id: <20020303143040761.AAA110@mail.iolinc.net@there>
On Sunday 03 March 2002 06:56 am, Jaeger, Gerhard wrote:
>Hey,
>
>too much different versions around and too much patches made
> :-(((( Okay next try to shed some light into this story...
>First of all, it seems, that the old 0.41_4 which work a month
> ago for Gene and Reinhard is not identical to the 0.41_4 which
> is now available - again my chaotic version management...
;-)
>Again:
>- 0.41_3 is the stuff in the SANE 1.0.7
> then I made a version 0.41_4 with the additions for NON-Plustek
>models. This one has been tweaked with the settings from
> Reinhard and Gene AND has never found it's way back to the
> internet as 0.41_5 Instead of this version, I have patched the
> working 0.41_4 with stuff from Allan to make the UMAX 3400 work
> and decided to release the 0.42_0 test-version...
>In the meantime, I also updated the parallel-port stuff of
> 0.41_3 two times so I got 0.41_4 and 0.41_5 BUT without the
> goodies for the USB side - everything clear - not really ;-)
So that explains that. Humm, I should maybe build a straight
1.0.7 to use as a baseline.
>So I try to find the OLD 0.41_4 and insert ONLY Genes' settings
> for the EPSON and hopefully it'll work...
>
>Oh boy, hard stuff without hardware...
Have you queried epson about this? They occasionally have been
known to loan printers to the cups people. And have even hosted
a shootout, with the cups drivers actually making better output
than the winderz driver versions they supply! Of course I have
no idea how far from their headquarters you are.
>I'll put the version this evening (CET) onto the net and tell
> you where to find it.
Great.
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Cheers, Gene
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