Re: Mustek Paragon 1200SP and transparancy

becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de
Sun, 18 Jan 1998 00:24:39 +0100 (MET)

> And potential for scanner destruction... ;-(
>
> Alexander> Is there any way to define the scan area depending on the
> Alexander> document type? Or what else can I do?
>
> In theory, the Mustek backend can already detect the presence of a
> transparency adapter (but it doesn't know much else). If you set
> environment variable SANE_DEBUG_MUSTEK to a value >=2, you should see
> a message of the form:
>
> [mustek] attach: found Mustek scanner model BLAH (BLAH), 1-pass, TA
>
> The important thing being the "TA". If you see this, the backend
> detected the transparency adapter and dev->flags will have flag
> MUSTEK_FLAG_TA set. With this, it would be easy to adjust the
> scanning area.
>
> Patches for supporting transparancy adapters would be of course very
> welcome (I don't have such a beat myself). If you end up playing with
> this, let me know and I'll see about getting the Mustek SCSI command
> docs to you.

Shouldn't it suffice to test out which length the TA has and adjust the
defaults accordingly ?

Another tip for Mustek scanner owners:

I finally got upset enough about the stripes of dirt on the _under_side
of the scanner glass which degraded scan quality for me quite a bit
(the scanner had been delivered in that state ...) to open it and clean
it. This is a painless operation on the MFS-12000SP (just remove the lid
and 4 screws), so do not hesitate to do it.

CU,ANdy

-- 
Andreas Beck              |  Email :  <andreas.beck@ggi-project.org>

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