[sane-devel] Support of Mustek A3 2400S

[Troels Thomsen]

m. allan noah once wrote:"You might
also want to investigate Fujitsu scanners, they are pricey, but they
give me protocol documentation for most of their models, and so are
fairly easy to support"

/T




2014-12-10 21:49 GMT+01:00 Jehan Pagès <jehan.marmottard at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Bob Gustafson <bobgus at rcn.com> wrote:
> > There is a nicer model -
> > http://www.mustek.com/products/large-a3-scanner/9-a3f2400n.html
> > In the specifications under 'System Requirements' it shows:
> >
> >   Windows 8 / 7 / Vista / XP (Service Pack 3)
> >
> >   Mac OS X 10.7~10.10
> >
> >   Linux Ubuntu12.04 kernel 3.11 32bit / Fedora 20 kernel 3.15 32bit
>
> Yes after sending this email to the Sane mailing list, I checked other
> scanners and discovered as well that some had announced Linux support,
> which is nice.
>
> Rather than the A3F2400N though, the A3 1200 HS looks interesting by
> being faster, which I prefer to having buttons on the scanner, as long
> as this does not affect the scan quality (there is also a A3 2400 HS
> in their webshop, apparently so recently released that it is not even
> in the main website, but honestly I think 1200 dpi is more than
> enough). Now they don't really give much information on how faster it
> would be (only comparison point is A3 200 dpi in 2.3 s for the HS, and
> 3 s for the N model, no info for higher resolutions).
>
> > Perhaps they are not really that serious about the Linux 32 bit?
>
> Oh I didn't realize the 32 bit part. This is indeed annoying!
> Maybe I'll send an email and ask.
>
> > In their Support Drivers Downloads they don't specify bit size for Linux
> >
> > Driver     A3F2400N     NA     Sep 19, 2014    Linux
> >
> > Technical Support is tsupport at mustek.com
> >
> > --------------------------------------
> >
> > I have been looking at Mustek for awhile - more or less limited by the
> same
> > software driver issues.
>
> Do you know of other good brands which make A3 scanners? Good quality
> but reasonable price is what I am looking for.
> Thanks!
>
> Jehan
>
> > Bob G
> >
> >
> > On 12/10/2014 01:17 PM, Jehan Pagès wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've been interested into a A3 scanner, found the Mustek A3 2400S on
> > Amazon (http://www.amazon.fr/Mustek-A3-2400-Scanner-Plat/dp/B00A1K9M2Q)
> > but I just can't figure out whether or not it is supported on Linux
> > (and to which level of support).
> >
> > I used the scanner Search Engine:
> > http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl?manu=mustek
> > But no model seems to be exactly named "2400S" (there are a lot of
> > 2400 CU|CS|TA (PLUS)? and so on, but no "S", and they all seem to have
> > an additional naming like BearPaw, ScanExpress, etc. but such names
> > are not used for this mustek product).
> >
> > Would anyone know if that is actually a different naming for another
> > scanner in the Sane list, or is it simply not in the list? And if it
> > is not, would anyone know if it would work anyway, has any experience
> > with it or something?
> > Also what seems to be the officiel spec:
> > http://www.mustek.com/products/large-a3-scanner/12-a3-2400s.html
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Jehan
> >
> >
> >
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