I, too, am looking for info on the Acer scanners. The above is the same info
that you can find in several statements in the sane-devel archives. Hasn't
anyone investigated this further?
I purchased the AcerScan Prisa 620ST about a week ago. The scanner itself
looks nice, but it seems to prefer the accompanying SCSI card. And although
you can select a SCSI ID of 0-9 (sic!), you can't make the scanner terminate
the SCSI bus correctly without extra hardware (in my case, a ZIP drive ;-)
Oh, and the manual is awful, with the weirdest English I've seen. On the
other hand, on www.acerperipherals.com it seems they know what they're doing.
Anyway, I'll install the scanner+card+Windoze on my brother's computer
(where it is of most use anyway), then I'll mail a polite request to Acer to
persuade them to release programming info. SANE support in the future would be
great!
(End of mini-review and rambling.)
Further questions:
1. Is Vuego really the same company as Acer? I.e., would a Vuego 42FOO scanner
be exactly the same as an Acer 42FOO?
2. If Acer 310S is modified from Agfa Snapscan 310S, would that make an Acer
620ST a modified Agfa Snapscan <something>?
3. Assuming there is some support for the Acer 310S, using the SnapScan
driver, can anyone estimate the chances of a later model like the 620ST
working, too? Do they really mess that much with the protocols between
models?
regards,
Jörgen
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