Re: microtek scanmaker III,V,VI,A3 etcetera

Warren Early (earlyw@sphinx-group.com)
Tue, 9 Dec 1997 15:19:15 +0800 (GMT-8)

You're fairly correct about the Microtek USA. They do some Mac
developement there but no PC stuff. That's all done in Taiwan. The U.S.
office does testing for Window and Mac environments and technical support.
I've sent a request to some people at Microtek that I know. Hopefuly they
will send what you are looking for.

On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Matto Marjanovic wrote:

>
> (For anyone looking for Microtek backend news: sorry to have been absent
> for so long. I'm just starting to process a backlog of e-mail.)
>
> Hey, Theo: me, too.
>
> After spending copious amounts of time on the Microtek US tech support phone
> lines (or 'line'), even after applying for the "Microtek Developer Program",
> I have managed to get that same, inapplicable SCSI document *three* times.
> It is spooky --- as if their firmware was just deposited on someone's
> desk by evil forces late one night. My suspicion is that the only people
> that might know about the E6/E3/III are hidden in the head office in Taiwan.
> *Someone* has to have the correct document *somewhere*, even as a dog-earred
> old photocopy of a photocopy.
>
> If you or anyone else gets any insights into Microtek documentation, or just
> the 10/12 bit modes, *please* pass them my way, and I'll incorporate them into
> the backend. I've pretty much exhausted the mtekscan source code.
>
> -Matt Marjanovic
> maddog@mir.com
>
> ps: http://www.vividata.com/scanshop.html seems to be a commercial program
> which supports Microtek scanners (among others) on Unices. They seem
> to have free trial-periods, too.
> Like I said, *someone* has the documentation.
>
>
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