sane-microtek.5



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
       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 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 scan-
       ner 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 acti-
       vated if the magic calibration code was turned off.


FILES

       /usr/local/etc/sane.d/microtek.conf
              The  backend  configuration  file  (see  also   description   of
              SANE_CONFIG_DIR below).

       /usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-microtek.a
              The static library implementing this backend.

       /usr/local/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.  On *NIX systems, the direc-
              tories are separated by a colon (`:'), under OS/2, they are sep-
              arated  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 /usr/lo-
              cal/etc/sane.d.  If the value of the environment  variable  ends
              with  the directory separator character, then the default direc-
              tories are searched after the explicitly specified  directories.
              For example, setting SANE_CONFIG_DIR to "/tmp/config:" would re-
              sult in directories tmp/config, ., and /usr/local/etc/sane.d be-
              ing 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  indistinguish-
              able 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@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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