sane-microtek(5) SANE Scanner Access Now Easy sane-microtek(5)
NAME
sane-microtek - SANE backend for Microtek scanners
DESCRIPTION
The sane-microtek library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy)
backend that provides access to the "second generation" Microtek scan-
ners. At present, the following hardware is known to work with this
backend:
Microtek ScanMaker E2, E3, E6
Microtek ScanMaker II, IIG, IIHR, IISP, III
Microtek ScanMaker 35t, 35t+, 45t
Microtek ScanMaker 600GS, 600ZS (see bug notes)
Agfa StudioScan
Agfa StudioScan II, StudioScan IIsi
Agfa Arcus II (but not the "Arcus")
Agfa DuoScan (preliminary)
Vobis "Highscreen Realscan"
Microtek Color PageWiz (preliminary)
Transparent Media Adapter
Document AutoFeeder
The driver supports line art, halftone, 8bpp gray, and 24bpp color scans
at normal and "expanded" resolutions (i.e. 1200x1200 on an E6), fast
scans for color previews, and downloadable gamma tables.
The supported scanners are all SCSI scanners. However, some parallel
port models may work (under Linux), if they use a parport->scsi chip,
and if you can find a scsi->parport driver. This is known to be the
case for the Color PageWiz.
The driver does not support the newest Microtek scanners, such as the
V330 and V660, which use a new and very different SCSI-II command set.
For those, try the alternate microtek2(5) backend. Most non-SCSI scan-
ners would use the new command set. Most scanners newer than the Scan-
maker E6 would use the new command set.
If you own a Microtek scanner other than the ones listed above, tell us
what happens --- see the BUGS section at the end of this document.
Although this manual page is generally updated with each release, up-to-
date information on new releases and extraneous helpful hints are avail-
able from the backend homepage:
http://www.mir.com/mtek/
DEVICE NAMES
This backend expects device names of the form:
special
Where special is the UNIX path-name for the special device that corre-
sponds to the scanner. The special device name must be a generic SCSI
device or a symlink to such a device. Under Linux, such a device name
could be /dev/sga or /dev/sge, for example.
CONFIGURATION
The contents of the microtek.conf file is a list of device names that
correspond to Microtek scanners. Empty lines and lines starting with a
hash mark (#) are ignored. A sample configuration file is shown below:
/dev/scanner
# this is a comment
/dev/sge
The configuration file may also contain the special tokens norealcal or
noprecal. norealcal will disable the use of magic, undocumented scanner
calibration commands which are known to work on the E6, but may not work
with other models. noprecal will disable logic which tries to avoid
scanner precalibration. This logic would only have been activated if
the magic calibration code was turned off.
FILES
/etc/sane.d/microtek.conf
The backend configuration file (see also description of SANE_CON-
FIG_DIR below).
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-microtek.a
The static library implementing this backend.
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-microtek.so
The shared library implementing this backend (present on systems
that support dynamic loading).
ENVIRONMENT
SANE_CONFIG_DIR
This environment variable specifies the list of directories that
may contain the configuration file. On *NIX systems, the direc-
tories are separated by a colon (`:'), under OS/2, they are sepa-
rated by a semi-colon (`;'). If this variable is not set, the
configuration file is searched in two default directories: first,
the current working directory (".") and then in /etc/sane.d. If
the value of the environment variable ends with the directory
separator character, then the default directories are searched
after the explicitly specified directories. For example, setting
SANE_CONFIG_DIR to "/tmp/config:" would result in directories
tmp/config, ., and /etc/sane.d being searched (in this order).
SANE_DEBUG_MICROTEK
If the library was compiled with debugging support enabled, this
environment variable controls the debug level for this backend.
A value of 128 requests maximally copious debug output; smaller
levels reduce verbosity.
SEE ALSO
sane(7), sane-scsi(5), sane-microtek2(5)
AUTHOR
Matt Marjanovic
BUGS
Known bugs/limitations are:
Brightness and contrast broken.
The 600GS is grayscale only, and will lock up if you select
color. (Unfortunately, the 600GS and 600ZS are indistinguishable
by software.)
i.e. don't complain about these --- but if brightness and/or contrast do
work for you, please tell me.
If your scanner locks up, try setting the norealcal or noprecal option
in the configuration file (first one, then both), and see if it helps.
(If it does, report it.)
Send lengthy bug reports and new scanner information to
mtek-bugs@mir.com. All bug reports and new scanner inquiries should in-
clude an error log file. You can generate copious stderr output by set-
ting the SANE_DEBUG_MICROTEK environment variable described above. For
example:
setenv SANE_DEBUG_MICROTEK 128
More general comments, suggestions, and inquiries about frontends or
SANE should go to sane-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net, the SANE Develop-
ers mailing list. Have a look at http://www.sane-project.org/mail-
ing-lists.html concerning subscription to sane-devel.
13 Jul 2008 sane-microtek(5)
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