On Tuesday 09 September 2008 07:53:39 am Jay Anderson wrote: > I'm trying to get this scanner to work. I'm on Ubuntu 8.04. > > > lsusb > > Bus 003 Device 005: ID 055f:040b Mustek Systems, Inc. > > > sane-find-scanner -q > > found USB scanner (vendor=0x055f [Hewlett-Packard. ], product=0x040b > [USB2.0 Scanner ], chip=SQ113) at libusb:003:005 > > In my searching I found > http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/mustek_usb2-backend/. > > I found another thread > (http://www.nabble.com/Mustek-ScanExpress-A3-600-USB-Pro-td14698028.html) > which suggested trying the latest backend snapshot > (http://www.sane-project.org/snapshots/) and changing the ProductID and > VendorID to match what this scanner has. I've done that rebuilt and > installed (make && make install). > > After this xsane comes up and can communicate with the scanner. When I > preview the image it comes back with garbage -- multi-colored vertical > stripes (when I scanned an image it also came back with garbage). So it is > similar enough to control the scanner it seems. > > Has anyone else had any luck with this scanner? > > I'm willing (though I'm not sure how able I am) to spend some time digging > around in the code to figure it out a bit more. I don't really know where > to start so any pointers here would be useful. Thanks.
Is there any progress on this? I've got the same device and the same result with this scanner (on Debian unstable). I haven't got any experience with scanner drivers, but I'd like to try to tinker with it. It is said in http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/misc/mustek-scanners.html#UNSUPPORTED that sources for Windows drivers for some of these scanners are available --- could anybody supply me with that? Any pointers would be useful as well. Thanks. -- -- Dmitry Rutsky
