[sane-devel] Mustek 1200CP scanner does not release parallel port

[Dario Berzano]

Hi,
  I own a Mustek 1200CP flatbed scanner connected via a parallel port. 
After scanning, it seems that the SANE backend mustek_pp hangs and waits 
for some data from the scanner, locking the parallel port. As a result, 
the scanning head's lamp stays turned on and it does not return to its 
home position. The only way to unlock the port is to kill the scanning 
program (e.g. scanimage or xsane). I do not use saned.
  Another strange aspect is that I had to set up the cis600 driver 
instead of the proper cis1200 one. With cis1200 (or cis1200+), the 
scanned image is vertically stretched, and the scanning head tries to 
scan out of range, making a loud, awful noise and damaging my hardware.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
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