[sane-devel] Wrong detection of Plustek parallel port scanner

Gerhard Jaeger gerhard at gjaeger.de
Sun Feb 4 13:30:38 CET 2007


On Saturday 03 February 2007 19:11, Frank Beimfohr wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've installed sane 1.0.18 on xubuntu 6.10. scanimage -L returns
>
> device `plustek_pp:parport0' is a Plustek 600P/6000P parallel port flatbed
> scanner
>
> Unfortunately, my scanner is a Plustek 12000P. The scan result is just
> trash. 

Yeap, because the driver makes wrong assumptions regarding the
CCD and motor settings :(

> I haven't found any possibility to make sane using the correct 
> device. Does somebody know a solution?

You might try and enable the debug output to give me an idea
what might be the problem...
(export SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK_PP=20 ; scanimage -L)

Gerhard



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