Re: Agfa Arcus II

Warren Early (earlyw@sphinx-group.com)
Mon, 4 May 1998 11:14:12 -0700 (PDT)

The Scanmaker II is pretty old and is a 3-pass scanner. I doubt that the
Arcus Plus is a Scanmaker II. What's the max optical resolution of it? I
can take an educated guess as to which engine it's built on.

On Mon, 4 May 1998, Göran Thyni wrote:

> Murray Jensen wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 01 May 1998 15:56:43 +0200, "G ran Thyni" <goran@bildbasen.se> writes:
> > >Matto suggested that the Arcus II really is a microtek scanner,
> > >and after a little patching it works with his backend.
> >
> > I have an Agfa Arcus Plus. Does anyone know if this is also a Microtek
> > similar to the Arcus II (which I thought was the Arcus Plus successor)?
> > I will probably try it eventually if I get no response, but I thought
> > I'd ask - might save me some time. Cheers!
>
> Since "Arcus II" really is a "ScanMaker III",
> my first guess would be that it is a "ScanMaker II"
> which is supported by the microtek-driver.
> Just add the id and detection string (you will see them if
> you set the microtek debug environment to 128)
> like in my latest patch and give it a shot.
>
> good luck,
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