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Important Update

The EPSON Perfection 1250, 1260 and 660 are not and will very likely not be supported by this SANE backend.

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Some of the EPSON scanners have a letter after the model number, this usually indicates which interface a scanner is using: S for SCSI and U for USB - and some scanners even come with both interfaces: SU. If one model is supported, then in all cases I know about all interfaces are supported.

The list of supported scanners in the official SANE release is at the SANE site. This is however not the latest and greatest version. The backend version you can download from my site supports the following scanners:

US/Canada	Europe/Asia	Japan	Interface	Comments
n/a	GT-4000	GT-4000
ES-300C	GT-6000	GT-6000	Parallel
ES-600C	GT-6500	GT-5400
ES-800C	GT-8000	GT-8000
ES-1000C	GT-8500	GT-8500
ES-1200C	GT-9000	GT-9000	Parallel
ActionScanner II	GT-5000	GT-5000	SCSI, Parallel
n/a	GT-5500	GT-5500
Perfection 636	GT-7000	GT-7000	SCSI, USB
Perfection 1200	Perfection 1200	GT-7600	SCSI, USB
Perfection 1240			SCSI, USB
Perfection 1640			SCSI, USB
Perfection 610	Perfection 610	GT-6600	USB
Perfection 640	Perfection 640		USB
Expression 636	GT-9500		SCSI
Expression 836XL	GT-12000	ES-8000	SCSI
Expression 1600	Expression 1600	ES-2000	SCSI, USB, IEEE-1394
Expression 1640			SCSI, USB, IEEE-1394
Expression 1680			SCSI, USB, IEEE-1394
GT-10000	GT-10000	ES-6000	SCSI
Perfection 1650	Perfection 1650	Perfection 1650	USB
Perfection 1660	Perfection 1660	Perfection 1660	USB
Perfection 2450	Perfection 2450	Perfection 2450	USB	The IEEE-1394 interface is now also supported (in the CVS version).
Perfection 2400	Perfection 2400	Perfection 2400	USB
Perfection 600			Unsupported	This is actually a UMAX Astra 1200S in disguise. The UMAX backend will handle this scanner. Check out Oliver Rauch's UMAX page
		ES-8500	SCSI
FilmScan 200			Unsupported	FilmScan 200 - A better backend for the FilmScan 200 can be found at http://www.vjet.demon.co.uk/scanner/

The parallel port scanners should work, I only have confirmation for those that are marked as "supported". For more information about the parallel port scanners please see Christian Bucher's web site. All SCSI scanners should work, the only exception here is the Perfection 600, which does work with Sane, just not with the EPSON backend (see the comments in the table for more information). For all USB scanners check out my USB Scanner page. For more information about the IEEE-1394 scanners, check my IEEE-1394 Scanner page.