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.TH sane-mustek 5 "10 Jun 2001"
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.IX sane-mustek
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.SH NAME
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sane-mustek - SANE backend for Mustek flatbed scanners
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The
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.B sane-mustek
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library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) backend that
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provides access to Mustek (and some relabeled Trust) flatbed scanners.
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At present, the following scanners are known to work more or less with
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this backend:
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.PP
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.RS
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Paragon MFS-6000CX
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.br
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Paragon MFS-12000CX
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.br
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Paragon MFC-600S, 600 II CD, ScanMagic 600 II SP
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Paragon MFC-800S, 800 II SP
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Paragon MFS-6000SP
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Paragon MFS-8000SP
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Paragon MFS-1200SP, MFS-12000SP
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ScanExpress 6000SP
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ScanExpress 12000SP, 12000SP Plus, Paragon 1200 III SP, ScanMagic 9636S, 9636S Plus
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Paragon 1200 LS
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ScanExpress A3 SP
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Paragon 1200 SP Pro
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Paragon 1200 A3 Pro
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Paragon 600 II N
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Trust Imagery 1200 SP
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Trust Imagery 4800 SP
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Trust SCSI Connect 19200
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.RE
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.PP
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More details can be found on the Mustek backend homepage
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.IR http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/ .
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.PP
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Don't mix up MFS (Paragon), Pro and ScanExpress models! They're
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completely different. Check the exact model name!
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.PP
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Note that most of the above scanners come with a SCSI interface. The
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only non-SCSI scanner that has some support at this point is the 600
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II N scanner which comes with its own parallel port adapter (i.e., it
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does
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.I not
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attach to the printer port). More info on how to use the 600 II N can
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be found below in section PARAGON 600 II N. Other parallel port
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scanners are not supported by this backend but you may be successful
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using the Mustek parallel port backend (mustek_pp). USB scanners are
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not supported by this backend by now.
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.PP
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Mustek scanners have no protection against exceeding the physical scan
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area height. That is, if a scan is attempted with a height that
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exceeds the height of the scan surface, the scanner begins making loud
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noises and the scan mechanism may be damaged. Thus, if you hear such
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a noise, IMMEDIATELY turn off the scanner. This shouldn't happen if
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your scanner is in the list of known scanners. There is more
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information in the
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.I @DOCDIR@/PROBLEMS
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file.
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.PP
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If you own a Mustek (or Trust) scanner other than the ones listed
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above that works with this backend, please let us know by sending the
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scanner's exact model name (look at the front and back of the scanner)
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and a debug output to
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.IR sane\-devel@mostang.com .
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You can get the debug output by setting the environment variable
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SANE_DEBUG_MUSTEK to 5 and showing the list of available scanners with
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scanimage\ \-L . Please send all of it to the mailing list. You must be
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subscribed to sane-devel before you can send mail to the list. See
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.I http://www.mostang.com/sane/mail.html
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for details.
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.SH "DEVICE NAMES"
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This backend expects device names of the form:
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.PP
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.I special
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.RE
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.PP
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Where
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.I special
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is either the path-name for the special device that corresponds to a
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SCSI scanner or the port number at which the 600 II N can
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be found (see section PARAGON 600 II N below). For SCSI
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scanners, the special device name must be a generic SCSI device or a
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symlink to such a device. The program
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.I sane-find-scanner
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helps to find out the correct device. Under Linux, such a device name
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could be
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.I /dev/sga
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or
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.IR /dev/sge ,
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for example. See sane-scsi(5) for details.
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.SH CONFIGURATION
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The contents of the
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.I mustek.conf
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file is a list of options and device names that correspond to Mustek
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scanners. Empty lines and lines starting with a hash mark (#) are
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ignored. See sane-scsi(5) on details of what constitutes a valid
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device name.
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.PP
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The supported options are
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.BR linedistance-fix ,
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.BR lineart-fix ,
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.BR legal-size
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.BR buffersize ,
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.BR blocksize ,
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.BR strip-height ,
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and
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.B force-wait
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Options come in two flavors: global and positional ones. Global
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options apply to all devices managed by the backend whereas positional
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options apply just to the most recently mentioned device. Note that
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this means that the order in which the options appear matters!
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Option
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.B linedistance-fix
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is positional and works around a problem that occurs with some SCSI
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controllers (notably the ncr810 controller under Linux). If color
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scans have horizontal stripes and/or the colors are off, then it's
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likely that your controller suffers from this problem. Turning on
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this option usually fixes the problem.
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Option
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.B lineart-fix
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is positional and works around a timing problem that seems to exist
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with certain MFS-12000SP scanners. The problem manifests itself in
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dropped lines when scanning in lineart mode. Turning on this option
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should fix the problem but may slow down scanning a bit.
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Option
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.B legal-size
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is positional and sets the size of the scan area to Legal format. Set this
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option if you own a Paragon 12000 LS. It can't be distinguished by
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software from a ScanExpress 12000 SP (ISO A4 format).
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Option
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.B buffersize
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is a positional option that overrides the default value set for the size of
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the SCSI buffer. The buffer size is specified in kilobytes. The default value
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is 128. Because of double buffering the buffer actually sent to the scanner
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is half the size of this value. Try to increase this value to achieve higher
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scan speeds. Note that some ScanExpress scanners don't like buffer sizes above
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64 kb (buffersize = 128). If your sg driver can't set SCSI buffer sizes at
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runtime you may have to change that value, too. See sane-scsi(5) for details.
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Option
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.B blocksize
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is a positional option that overrides the default value set for the maximum
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amount of data scanned in one block. The buffer size is specified in
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kilobytes. Some scanners freeze if this value is bigger than 2048. The default
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value is 1 GB (so effectively no limit) for most scanners. Don't change this
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value if you don't know exactly what you do.
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Option
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.B strip-height
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is a global option that limits the maximum height of the strip scanned with a
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single SCSI read command. The height is specified in inches and may contain a
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fractional part (e.g., 1.5). Setting the strip-height to a small value (one
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inch, for example) reduces the likelihood of encountering problems with SCSI
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driver timeouts and/or timeouts with other devices on the same SCSI bus.
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Unfortunately, it also increases scan times. Thus, if the scanner is the only
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device on the SCSI bus it is connected to and if it is known that the SCSI
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driver does not suffer from premature timeouts, it is recommended to increase
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the strip-height or remove the option completely, which corresponds to an
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infinite strip height. See sane-scsi(5) on how to avoid problems with SCSI
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timeouts.
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Finally,
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.B force-wait
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is a global option. If set, the backend will wait until the device is ready
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before sending the inquiry command. Further more the backend will force the
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scan slider to return to its starting position (not implemented for all
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scanners). This option may be necessary with the 600 II N or when scanimage is
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used multiple times (e.g. in scripts). The default is off (not set).
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A sample configuration file is shown below:
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.PP
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.RS
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# limit strip height of all scanners to 1.5 inches:
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option strip-height 1.5
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/dev/scanner # first Mustek scanner
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# 1 MB buffer for /dev/scanner:
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option buffersize 1024
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/dev/sge # second Mustek scanner
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# turn on fixes for /dev/sge:
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option lineart-fix
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option linedistance-fix
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.RE
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.SH SCSI ADAPTER TIPS
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Mustek SCSI scanners are typically delivered with an ISA SCSI adapter.
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Unfortunately, that adapter is not worth much since it is not
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interrupt driven. It is (sometimes) possible to get the supplied card
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to work, but without interrupt line, scanning will be very slow and put
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so much load on the system, that it becomes almost unusable for other tasks.
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.PP
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If you already have a working SCSI controller in your system, you
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should consider that Mustek scanners do not support the SCSI-2
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disconnect/reconnect protocol and hence tie up the SCSI bus while a
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scan is in progress. This means that no other SCSI device on the same
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bus can be accessed while a scan is in progress.
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.PP
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Because the Mustek-supplied adapter is not worth much and because
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Mustek scanners do not support the SCSI-2 disconnect/reconnect
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protocol, it is recommended to install a separate (cheap) SCSI
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controller for Mustek scanners. For example, ncr810 based cards are
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known to work fine and cost as little as fifty US dollars.
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.PP
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For Mustek scanners, it is typically necessary to configure the
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low-level SCSI driver to disable synchronous transfers, tagged command
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queuing, and target disconnects. See sane\-scsi(5) for driver and
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platform-specific information.
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.PP
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The ScanExpress models have sometimes trouble with high resolution
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color mode. If you encounter sporadic corrupted images (parts duplicated
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or shifted horizontally) kill all other applications before scanning
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and (if sufficient memory is available) disable swapping.
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.SH PARAGON 600 II N
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This backend has support for the Paragon 600 II N parallel port
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scanner. Note that this scanner comes with its own ISA card that
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implements a funky parallel port (in other words, the scanner does not
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connected to the printer parallel port).
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.PP
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This scanner can be configured by listing the port number
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of the adapter in the mustek.conf file. Valid port numbers are 0x26b,
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0x2ab, 0x2eb, 0x22b, 0x32b, 0x36b, 0x3ab, 0x3eb. Pick one that
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doesn't conflict with the other hardware in your computer. Put only
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one number on a single line. Example:
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.I 0x3eb
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.PP
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Note that for this scanner root privileges are required to access the
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I/O ports. Thus, either make frontends such as scanimage(1) and
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xscanimage(1) setuid root (generally not recommended for safety
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reasons) or, alternatively, access this backend through the network
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daemon saned(1). On systems which support this feature, the scanner
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can be accessed through
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.IR /dev/port .
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Don't forget to adjust the permissions for
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.IR /dev/port .
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At least with recent Linux kernels root privileges are necessary for
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.I /dev/port
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access, too.
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.PP
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If your images have horizontal stripes in color mode, check option
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linedistance-fix (see above). Apply this option for a scanner with
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firmware version 2.x and disable it for version 1.x.
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.PP
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If the Mustek backend blocks while sending the inqiury command to the scanner,
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add the option force-wait to mustek.conf.
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.PP
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Also note that after a while of no activity, some scanners themself (not
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the SANE backend) turns off their CCFL lamps. This shutdown is not always
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perfect with the result that the lamp sometimes continues to glow
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dimly at one end. This doesn't appear to be dangerous since as soon as
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you use the scanner again, the lamp turns back on to the normal high
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brightness. However, the first image scanned after such a shutdown may
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have stripes and appear to be over-exposed. When this happens, just
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take another scan, and the image will be fine.
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.SH FILES
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.TP
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.I @CONFIGDIR@/mustek.conf
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The backend configuration file (see also description of
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.B SANE_CONFIG_DIR
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below).
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.TP
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.I @LIBDIR@/libsane-mustek.a
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The static library implementing this backend.
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.TP
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.I @LIBDIR@/libsane-mustek.so
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The shared library implementing this backend (present on systems that
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support dynamic loading).
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.SH ENVIRONMENT
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.TP
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.B SANE_CONFIG_DIR
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This environment variable specifies the list of directories that may
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contain the configuration file. Under UNIX, the directories are
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separated by a colon (`:'), under OS/2, they are separated by a
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semi-colon (`;'). If this variable is not set, the configuration file
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is searched in two default directories: first, the current working
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directory (".") and then in @CONFIGDIR@. If the value of the
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environment variable ends with the directory separator character, then
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the default directories are searched after the explicitly specified
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directories. For example, setting
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.B SANE_CONFIG_DIR
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to "/tmp/config:" would result in directories "tmp/config", ".", and
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"@CONFIGDIR@" being searched (in this order).
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.TP
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.B SANE_DEBUG_MUSTEK
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If the library was compiled with debug support enabled, this
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environment variable controls the debug level for this backend. Higher
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debug levels increase the verbosity of the output.
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.nf
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Value Descsription
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0 no output
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1 print fatal errors
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2 print important messages
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3 print non-fatal errors and less important messages
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4 print all but debugging messages
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5 print everything
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Example:
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export SANE_DEBUG_MUSTEK=4
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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sane(7), sane\-find\-scanner(1), sane\-scsi(5), sane\-mustek_pp(5)
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.SH AUTHOR
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David Mosberger, Andreas Czechanowski, Andreas Bolsch (SE extensions),
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Henning Meier-Geinitz
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.SH BUGS
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Scanning with the SCSI adapters supplied by Mustek is very slow at
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high resolutions and wide scanareas.
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Some scanners (e.g. Paragon 1200 A3 + Pro, SE A3) need more testing.
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More detailed bug information is available at the Mustek backend
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homepage
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.IR http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/ .
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