Re: [LUG] scanners

[CHRISTOPHER BERRY <christopher.berry1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The only way to get my Epson 2480 scanner to work in PCLinuxOS was to pinch the Windows driver package from the firmware CD THEN it worked - I suspect it will be the same with the 3490.
Cheers,
Grandad Bee.

David Bell <grimpen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  On Sunday 24 February 2008 10:22, george wrote:
>
> > I reckon that there are 2 problems with Linux as the desktop and the worst
> > one, in my opinion, is getting scanners to work.  I've had several goes at
> > getting my Epson 3490 to work and have given up and installed it on XP
> > running on Vitual Box.  
>
> The only distro that I have had any luck with my Epson 2480 scanner is SuSE 
> using their Epson iscan package. 
>
> Fortunately I rarely use a scanner and can therefore, work with Debian most of 
> the time.
>
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