Re: Who has a EPSON Perfection 1240?

From: Geoff Ghose (geoff@focus.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 20 2001 - 19:17:41 PST

  • Next message: Karl Heinz Kremer: "Re: Who has a EPSON Perfection 1240?"

    Steve Broccardo wrote:

    > On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 04:52:58PM -0500, Karl Heinz Kremer wrote:
    > > On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 04:43:31PM -0500, Karl Heinz Kremer wrote:
    > > > I got one report from a Perfection1240 user that the scanner turns
    > > > off the lamp before _EVERY_ scan when the EPSON backend is used. This
    > >
    > > I probably was not clear enough: The scanner turns the lamp on again right
    > > away. The lamp is off for about half a second.
    > >
    > > Karl Heinz
    > >
    >
    > My Perfection1240 cycles the lamp (turns it off, then on) before every scan. I
    > think that this is not good for the life of fluorescent lamps. This happens in flatbed mode, and in transparency mode.
    >
    > Steve Broccardo
    >
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    Yes. Mine does as well. I'm not sure whether this also happens with Windoze. 


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