RE: Good A3 scanner?

From: Collins, Martin (ColliM@sagetetra.com)
Date: Thu May 18 2000 - 08:29:43 PDT

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    Dr. Heinrich Falk [mailto:hff@compulogical.de] wrote:
    >
    > Does it work with sane ?? I have got a MUSTEK PARAGON 1200 A3 PRO.
    > It does not work with sane 1.0.1 (SuSE 6.4).

    That's bad news. It's hard to tell from the Supported Scanners page
    which machines are supported as the model numbers provided don't
    seem to match the model numbers advertised by Mustek.

    > Btw. I couldn't get it to work with WIN NT nor WIN2000.

    There's an NT driver here http://www.mustek-driver.de/1200a3pro.html

    Is it a good machine though? How long to scan an A3 colour picture at
    600dpi? How much did you pay for it?

    Randolph Bentson wrote:
    >
    > The Fujitsu M3096G, for which I wrote the driver, meets all your
    > requirements but the last. I found mine used for 700USD.

    I think you got a bargain there. A quick web search throws up one for
    2100USD, way above my budget. Also, I don't need to scan 22 pages a
    minute!

    > Once I got past the first layers of tech support I was able to
    > locate the OEM manuals which allowed me to write the driver.
    > You may be able to do the same for a more recent and therefore
    > perhaps cheaper model.

    Unless someone else knows different the Mustek seems to be the
    cheapest (new price 740EUR) machine that meets my requirements.
    I wouldn't mind doing a driver for it provided I could modify
    an existing one and I could get the specs before I buy.

    Martin

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