Re: Agfa Arcus II

Göran Thyni (goran@bildbasen.se)
Fri, 01 May 1998 15:50:48 +0200

Matto Marjanovic wrote:
>
> Have you tried SANE just to see what happens?
> It might work with the Microtek backend.... I vaguely remember hearing
> that some Agfa scanners were made by Microtek, and the documentation I
> have lists "5C = Arcus II" as one of the model types.
>
> You will need to apply the following patch to the backend so that it
> recognizes the new scanner type. I assume the Arcus II is a 600dpi
> (optical) scanner; if not, the patch needs to be modified a little
> [i.e. "base_resolution"]. The patch also adds "StudioScan" and
> "StudioScan II" --- are these Agfa also?

Don't know anything about studioscan:s.

> Please tell me what happens --- and please send me a debug log of a scan
> ("setenv SANE_DEBUG_MICROTEK 128"), whether it works or not.

After fooling around with the patch a little it got it to work. :-)
Arcus II is a pretty advanced scanner so lots of functionality is
missing but it is a good starting point.

I attached a revised patch below,
Agfa Arcus II could be added to supported scanners for 0.73.
Many thanks for your assistence.

best regards,

-- 
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Göran Thyni, sysadm, JMS Bildbasen, Kiruna






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*** microtek.c-dist     Fri Apr  3 10:14:02 1998
--- microtek.c  Fri May  1 14:26:05 1998
***************
*** 1224,1229 ****
--- 1224,1230 ----
      mi->base_resolution = 300;
      break;
    case 0x59: /* ScanMaker III     */
+   case 0x5C: /* Arcus II */
    case 0x63: /* ScanMaker E6      */
    case 0x66: /* ScanMaker E6 (new)*/
      mi->base_resolution = 600;
***************
*** 1511,1517 ****
    }
    if (!(strncmp("MICROTEK", &(result[8]), 8)) ||
        !(strncmp("MII SC31", &(result[8]), 8)) ||  /* for the IISP */
!       !(strncmp("        ", &(result[8]), 8)) ) {
      switch (result[62]) {
      case 0x50 :
        *model_string = "ScanMaker II/IIXE";  break;
--- 1512,1519 ----
    }
    if (!(strncmp("MICROTEK", &(result[8]), 8)) ||
        !(strncmp("MII SC31", &(result[8]), 8)) ||  /* for the IISP */
!       !(strncmp("        ", &(result[8]), 8)) ||
!       !(strncmp("AGFA    ", &(result[8]), 8)) ) {
      switch (result[62]) {
      case 0x50 :
        *model_string = "ScanMaker II/IIXE";  break;
***************
*** 1531,1536 ****
--- 1533,1540 ----
        *model_string = "ScanMaker IIG";      break;
      case 0x59 :
        *model_string = "ScanMaker III";      break;
+     case 0x5C :
+       *model_string = "ARCUS II";      break;
      case 0x5f :
        *model_string = "ScanMaker E3";       break;
      case 0x62 :



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