[sane-devel] umax astra 4500, 6700 -> Avision OEM scanners

[Jose Paulo Moitinho de Almeida]

On Wednesday 20 March 2002 18:20, you wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> During the CeBIT I found out that the UMAX Astra 4500, 6700 are also
> Avision OEM scanners.
>
> They do not have the firmware in an EPROM. The scanner-driver needs to
> upload it into the scanner after each power-off.
>
> I hope that Avision provides me with additional information to get the
> HP 5370 and HP 7400 and this UMAX Astra 4500 and 6700 working. We also
> would need the firmware (either by cut'n pasting from the Windows .dll
> (is this allowed?) or directly from Avision).
>

You mean that someone from UMAX promised some specs? When I mailed avision 
requesting docs I got an answer, but when I replied that I had a Minolta 
branded scanner the communication came to na halt :-(

Regards

Ze Paulo