[sane-devel] scanimage cannot see Umax Astra 2100S scanner.

Russ Pitman rjp@belle.apana.org.au
Sat, 14 Feb 2004 23:01:45 +0800


Oliver Rauch wrote:
> 
> Hello Russ,
> 
> may be your scanner is a relabled Astra 2200S

I looked up the CD that was supplied with the scanner.

The label says (SCSI models and Astra 2200 USB+SCSI)

> (UMAX seems to mix the motherboards of some scanners
> in the last time). In this case the following may help:
> 
> Disbale the option "quality calibration" in the
> standard-options window of xsane or
> for scanimage use --quality-cal=no

Both these options work fine. BTW are there issues with not being able to
use the quality calibration option apart from the obvious one :-)

My thanks to all those on the list who took the trouble to help.
-- 
Cheers
Russ.