Hi, I recently got this model scanner and tried it out. It works fine in grayscale but when I scan color images, there are wide, repeating vertical bars overlaying the image.
It is not dissimilar to the problem in the picture from the thread "[sane-devel] Vertical bands with Lexmark X1150". However in this case there is a much more pronounced effect with brightly colored stripes blended with much of the image. I'll get a sample uploaded soon, the scanner is currently in use (it works fine with the manufacturer's drivers in Windows). I am using Ubuntu 10.04 x86-64 (kernel 2.6.32-25), with sane and xsane installed via .deb packages: libsane 1.0.21-0ubuntu1, sane-utils 1.0.21-0ubuntu1, xsane and xsane common 0.996-2ubuntu3. I'm a programmer and happy to hack on the driver, if necessary, since I have the equipment and can easily test it...but I'm not quite sure where to start as this is my first time working with sane or any scanning on Linux for that matter. Thanks Chris Guirl