Canon 3000 scanner

[David Fletcher]

At 02:35 11/01/2006, you wrote:

>On 1/10/06, Chasecreek Systemhouse <chasecreek.systemhouse at gmail.com> wrote:
>On the box it has a TWAIN emblem. However, underneath that in fine
>print it sais 'for Windows". I don't think TWAIN has anything to do
>with the os.  It comes with Windoz software and works on this [dual
>boot] machine with Windoz outta the box.
>
>This week my Windows setup (on this machine) crashed again. The little
>scanner is the last hurdle to overcome, to send Windoz up s__t creek
>for good. I have no time to play with Windows, and haven't really
>tried fixing it so far.
>
>-nat

Sounds to me like you need to encourage your children and/or 
grandchildren to use it and if that doesn't do the trick get them to 
bring some friends home.

Once it's broken get an Epson scanner. Depends on what you want to do 
with it but I've got a Perfection 2450 Photo that produces beautiful 
scans from the 6x6cm transparencies out of my Bronica SQ-B camera.

The driver software did get broken a few days ago (it happens from 
time to time) but I've got it working again by getting the source RPM 
for libusb-0.1.10a from the FC4 mirror and rebuilding it on FC3. You 
wouldn't be able to do that with windoze.

If you go to http://www.avasys.jp/english/linux_e/index.html there's 
downloads of Epson peripheral drivers for Linux. I've installed one 
of the iscan packages. I don't use the iscan graphical front end but 
I think it also installs a sane backend which gets used by xsane. If 
I've got this wrong somebody please correct me.

The important thing is that it works although I still have the 
slightly strange quirk in the software that I have to start xsane, 
shut it down immediately then start it again for the scanner to work. 
I've no idea why this happens but I can live with it.

Cheers

Dave Fletcher