[sane-devel] Sane support for Acer parallel port scanners

Oliver Schwartz Oliver.Schwartz at gmx.de
Fri Jun 20 16:54:12 BST 2003


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Hi,

> It's a Acer / Benq 620P parallel port scanner, and in the Sane
> compatibility list the status for a driver for this model is marked
> as "unknown". Can you tell me if someone is working on a Sane
> driver for this model? Or can I use another driver that will work
> for my scanner too? 

As far as I know nobody ever got an Acer, Benq or Agfa scanner to work 
with the snapscan backend. I can't say for Acer/Benq, but at least 
Agfa seems to use it's own proprietary Parallel-SCSI adapter. 

There is no documentation available for it, so the only chance would 
be reverse-engineering the parallel port protocol using a logic 
analyzer.

- -Oliver
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