Since my Umax Astra 2200 SCSI/USB scanner gave up on his duty, I was searching for a worthy successor.

And finally I found one...

To all those scanner seeking Linux users:

Epson Perfection V300 Photo works like a charm!

It's supported via the sane epkowa backend.

For the Gentoo Linux users, just emerge

• media-gfx/iscan
• media-gfx/iscan-plugin-gt-f720

and the scanner works flawless with Xsane, Iscan and skanlite

One drawback:

The buttons are not working and for now I had no time to look into this, but a working "copy" Button would be nice :-)