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
scanners. 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 backend. Most non-SCSI scanners
would use the new command set. Most scanners newer than the Scanmaker
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
available 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
corresponds 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_CONFIG_DIR below).
/usr/lib/sane/libsane-microtek.a
The static library implementing this backend.
/usr/lib/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. Under UNIX, the directories
are separated by a colon (‘:’), under OS/2, they are separated
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)
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
include an error log file. You can generate copious stderr output by
setting 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@lists.alioth.debian.org, the SANE
Developers mailing list. Have a look at
http://www.sane-project.org/mailing-lists.html concerning subscription
to sane-devel.
13 Jul 2008 sane-microtek(5)