wine users - Dec 2011 - Can I Install a scanner in wine

Hello everyone 
I'm am a new convert to Linux using Mint 12, I am trying to make a complete
break from windows, I have just installed Wine in order to use a couple of
programs i can't find Linux alternatives for and was wondering if it
possible to install a scanner in Wine, I have a Xerox 4800 flatbed scanner which
has no Linux driver available and is the only piece of hardware i can't get
to run in Linux, I have the Windows installation disk which includes scanning
software, any help or advice would be much appreciated.

Many Thanks

Graeme

Emegra wrote:
> I have just installed Wine in order to use a couple of programs i can't
find Linux alternatives for and was wondering if it possible to install a
scanner in Wine, I have a Xerox 4800 flatbed scanner which has no Linux driver
available and is the only piece of hardware i can't get to run in Linux, I
have the Windows installation disk which includes scanning software, any help or
advice would be much appreciated.
> 
Wine's TWAIN forwards calls to SANE, so if there's no SANE driver for
your scanner, it probably won't work in Wine. I say "probably,"
because a couple of years ago someone did report getting a network (not USB)
scanner to work with its bundled Windows software by using native twain.dll.
That's unlikely to work with a USB scanner, but it may be worth a shot
before going out and buying a new scanner that does have a working SANE driver.