On Saturday 30 November 2002 09:40, Adam Bower wrote:
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 11:10:07PM +0000, BenEBoy wrote:
I nearly missed this in Linux Format today, so just in case any of you did too and haven't heard about from other sources...
Epson have released the drivers / UI for their scanners again, in a more GPL friendly manner.
Epson have always been a very good supporter of free software, they gave all the specs on printers too the gimp-print project etc. so their equipment has always worked.
My Epson perfection 1260 isn't supported in the normal SANE backend, but there is a 'third party' backend that gives partial support to it. Now it works properly though :-)
Does this scanning application give you anything more than sane though?
Haven't tried anything other than iscan (the epson one) and xscanimage. I'd say those two programs are comparible to each other. Both can preview, adjust the colours and iscan can magnify. I'd guess that XSane etc. would urinate all over it from a great height, although I haven't tried it yet.
my scanner works fine with it so there is no need to move, unless I will gain something from it.
Of course ;-) It's pretty basic so I think I'll have a look round for something better tmrw, I'm just happy about having the backend...
And it works very well indeed too. All I need is to get my lexmark printer working properly (bought *just* before I decided to give linux a try) and I'll be a happy bunny
lots of the Lexmark printers now have a picture of a penguin on the box! well the cheap one we got at work the other day did anyhow.
The last time I was browsing through the Argos catalogue I had to do a double-take when I noticed 'compatible with linux' mentioned under one of the lexmarks. Nothing on their site about retrofitting compatibility though, if you know what I mean...
Adam