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Subject  :  Epson 1670 & Tame100
Author  :  Bobber rbrown@wyobeam.com
Date  :  06 Dec, 2005 on 06:56
Need help for Epson 1670 and Tame 100 installation. Using eCS 1.2.

I just bought a new Epson 1670 on eBay (should arrive 3-5 days). In the meantime I installed Tame 100. This scanner uses the snapscan backend. According to the instructions:

If you have an USB scanner using the Sane Snapscan Backend (Attention: this applies to some Epson scanners too) you have to add the firmware to snapscan.conf by editing the supplied file.
E.g. firmware C:\TAME\scan.bin.
The firmware is part of the Windows drivers delivered with the scanner, so you have to copy it from there to your Tame directory.

I have downloaded the required esfw30.bin that is required for the 1670.

The snapscan.conf contains these lines for the 1670:

# Epson Perfection 1670
usb 0x04b8 0x011f

How should the above lines read?

I HAVE copied the esfw30.bin to the Tame directory.

Does anyone have experience with the above?

Thanks


Subject  :  Re:Epson 1670 & Tame100
Author  :  Smedles
Date  :  06 Dec, 2005 on 10:19
Hi Bob,
I'm biased as I ported recent Sane to OS/2 - but I would advise updating to latest Tame from http://smedley.info/sane.html

Snapscan.conf should look like:
#------------------------------ General -----------------------------------

# Change to the fully qualified filename of your firmware file, if
# firmware upload is needed by the scanner
firmware e:\utilities\tame\ESFW30.BIN

# If not automatically found you may manually specify a device name.

# For USB scanners also specify bus=usb, e.g.
# /dev/usb/scanner0 bus=usb

# For SCSI scanners specify the generic device, e.g. /dev/sg0 on Linux.
# /dev/sg0

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# No changes should be necessary below this line
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------


Subject  :  Re:Epson 1670 & Tame100
Author  :  Bobber rbrown@wyobeam.com
Date  :  06 Dec, 2005 on 22:00
Thanks

I downloaded the newer version and will wait for the scanner to arrive before I use the program. Appreciate the input on how the conf file should read.


Subject  :  Re:Epson 1670 & Tame100
Author  :  Bobber rbrown@wyobeam.com
Date  :  09 Dec, 2005 on 00:28
Thanks to Smedles!!

The 1670 Epson arrived today. I had changed the conf file as per Smedles and all worked Great. With a scanner working under eCS1.2 I am now windoze free.

Nice Feeling!


Subject  :  Re:Epson 1670 & Tame100
Author  :  Smedles
Date  :  09 Dec, 2005 on 02:54
Hi Bobber,
Glad the scanner works good for you!!

It was a considerable learning curve for me learning how to implement OS/2 USB support for Sane - but it's bloody satisfying now that most scanners supported by Sane on *nix work on OS/2 & eComStation!!

Cheers,

Paul.


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