"John Rumm" wrote in message
o.uk...
On 24/09/2014 02:18, Arfa Daily wrote:



You certainly need to take more care when choosing peripherals with a
non windows OS. However windows is not immune to the problem.
Especially when moving generations. I have had devices that became
unsupportable going from 98 to win 2k / XP etc. Then more going from
XP to 7/8


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Cheers,

John.

For sure, yes, but by the same token, the peripheral that this has to
most apply to is the printer or scanner or combo, and I've usually found
that most of the basic functionality can be retained by using a generic
rather than specific driver on a newer platform that doesn't
'officially' support the device. I know we all love our 'old friends'
hanging on the end of our machines, but stuff like printers and combos
are so cheap now that you might as well just buy a new one anyway.
Chances are that your old one is mechanically - and sometimes
electronically as well - pretty much worn out anyway, if it's that old
...

If we are talking cheap combo machines, then yes, they are pretty much
disposable. However the first time this bit me was with a two to three
year old £1000 top end Epson SCSI scanner (GT8000 IIRC)... there were no
official drivers from Epson, but silverfast did some aimed at the
repro/publishing market. Only problem was they wanted more than the cost
of a new scanner for them! In the end had to upgrade to a better and
cheaper scanner - but that was still £600 - £700 at the time.

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Cheers,

John.

I suppose that the deal is that Windows tries to be all things to all
people, and it just can't. At a grand, that's a pretty specialist scanner,
and I would not imagine that too many were sold, and the people using them
were almost certainly not 'home' users, so the majority of them were quite
possibly not even being used on Windows systems, so it may not have been
worth Epson's while to keep writing drivers for newer Windows versions. And
I suppose that really, it's not Window's fault if the manufacturers of the
devices won't update drivers, or release the code of existing drivers to
allow others to rework them. I've never actually liked Epson peripherals,
anyway ...

Would this scanner have actually worked on a Linux system ?

Arfa