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- betascan driver for mustek and some Trust scanners
- port of SANE-mustek driver by Henning Meier-Geinitz
-
- tested on:
- Mustek ScanExpress 12000SP (firmware 1.01) this is the only one guaranteed (on my hardware at least;-)
-
- Mustek Paragon 1200 A3 PRO
- Mustek ScanExpress 12000SP Plus
- Trust SCSI Connect 19200
- Mustek Paragon 600 II CD
- Mustek Paragon MFS-6000CX
- Mustek Paragon MFS-12000CX
- Mustek ScanMagic 9636S
-
- INSTALLATION:
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- rename the current (if any) Mustek.device to Mustek.device.works (or something similar)
- copy the mustek.device file to your Betascan/Devices directory
- make sure PIPE: is mounted (the PIPE and PIPE.info is in devs:dosdrivers or mounted for instance in either startup-sequence or user-startup)
-
- new for 0.51+:
- copy the mustek.conf wherever you like (for instance in the same place you have betascan or somewhere else completly)
- remember to set the SANE_CONFIG_DIR env variable to the correct path (not needed if the location is s:)
- the path MUST end in either ':' or '/' (I'm too lazy to fix that :-) there is a demo SANE_CONFIG_DIR variable in the archive
- DO NOT USE IT!!! (make your own:-) )
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- for scanexpress (and maybe others) put the tempbuffer size as high as you can (remember that the size is in kbytes)
- and put the destination file somewhere on your harddrives that way you speed the
- scanning up and reduce the memory consumption (betascan does not apparantly allocate the buffer in one swoop at the start of the scan).
-
- read the sane-mustek.man for information regarding the options in mustek.conf
- and their usability.
-
- some people seem to have problems with contrast/threshold/gamma with certain scanners
- please note that not all scanners support all these options in all modes
-
- Report any faults. to me the uploader/author/porter
- at... trg@privat.utfors.se
-
- changes:
- 1.0.104 updated to latest source 1.0.104
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- 1.0.103 updated to latest source 1.0.103
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- 1.0.102 updated to latest source 1.0.102 which uses SANE 1.04 (betascan still only implements 1.02) the only difference
- seems to be a addition of some more options like preview option
-
- 1.0.100: changed the version numbering to be the same as the orginal SANE-mustek source
- updated to latest source 1.0.100
- some changes to the changes that was implemented in the prior version
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- 0.54: updated to latest source 1.0.99, considering changing the amiga version numbering to be the same as the SANE one
- changes to:
- ScanExpress (faster :-), and better :-))
- Paragon 12000SP (better color scanning)
- Paragon 1200SP Pro (working >600 Dpi color scanning)
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- 0.53: minor changes, cleaned some amiga specif stuff upp
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- 0.52: updated to the latest source 1.0.98 some major changes
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- 0.51: very minor change, changed the way the mustek.conf file is located you can now put the location of it in a env variable called
- SANE_CONFIG_DIR there is a couple of abers the path must end in either ':' or '/' I've supplied a demo env in the archive called (you guessed right)
- SANE_CONFIG_DIR, if there is no env variable it will (hopefully) read the file from s: if the file isn't there.. no sweat the device won't crash.
-
- 0.50: release version cut in stone. should work as long as you use betascan 2.15 or 2.21+(not yet released on aminet)
- 2.20 does not work with this device (apparantly something changed dramatically in either the linker libs or the betascan source or a combination)
- the recently released 2.25 works of course.
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- 0.48-0.49: did some internal tests with some code for handling other resolutions etc
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- 0.47: updated to 1.0.96 and did my changes for the scanexpress (nothing major)
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- 0.46: minor tweaks again in scanexpress code
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- 0.45: minor tweaks
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- 0.44: updated to 1.0.92 and did some changes for A3/A4 Pro
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- 0.43: did some additional changes for A3/A4 Pro
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- 0.42: did some changes for A3/A4 Pro
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- 0.41: updated to 1.0.91, changes to linedistance handling
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- 0.40: updated to 1.0.90, changes to linedistance handling
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- 0.39: ooopss forgot to revert the SCOPTIONS and smakefiles after making some tests with 060 compiled versions
- (and with heavy optimizatio). the driver now is slightly larger and might be slower but should be more stable.
-
- 0.38: updated to 1.0.88, tweaks to Paragon 1200 A3 Pro (and probaly A4 Pro)
- otherwise same as for 0.37.
- test it carefully.
-
- 0.37: updated to 1.0.86, major overhaul of the code, added support for
- Paragon 1200 A3 Pro and A4 Pro
- This release is even more of a beta do NOT delete the old version instead
- rename it to something like Mustek.device.works
- see Mustek.changes for more info about the changes
-
- 0.36: internal release, just mucking about:-)
-
- 0.35: Removed The SystemControl's from this version might improve performance
- since 1.0.85 have implemented double-buffered scanning.
- (and it didn't seem to help with the broken smaller than 170mm scans at 600+ DPi).
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- 0.34: updated to 1.0.85 might fix some problems with some paragon scanners
- the main problem with the scanexpress 12000SP with overrunning the internal buffer
- at 600DPi and 1200DPi if the scanner needs to backtrack on smaller widths remains.
- change the buffer size in betascan/config and see which value works
- (I currently use 64Kb might be one problem :-) still locks out the the system during
- the scan. might remove the SCON_StopInput later
-
- 0.33: changed the way it is implemented, now the system locks out any input during the
- entire scan.
- There seems to be problems with scans at 600DPi and 1200DPi for ScanExpress 12000SP
- when the scan width is less than 170mm and backtracking is needed.
-
- 0.32: not much changed, implemented some minor changes to the device driver so that
- the 1200 DPi scanning with ScanExpress and with lots of backtracking now works
- the negative point of this is that during scanning regard the system as inoperative.
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- 0.30: not much changed, implemented speed control (might not work)
- seems to be more stable speedwise.
-
- 0.29: not much changed first aminet release from me based on SANE 1.0.83
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- 0.28: still 1.0.82 but now should read the mustek.conf file included
- might be needed for certain scanners.
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- 0.27: changed to 1.0.82 source code
- should handle TA* and ADF** now
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- 0.26: changed to 1.0.81 source code
-
- *TA=Transparency Adaptor
- **ADF=Automatic Document Feeder
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- supported scanners:
- Paragon MFS-6000CX
- Paragon MFS-12000CX
- Paragon MFC-600S
- Paragon 600 II CD
- Paragon MFC-800S
- Paragon 800 II SP
- Paragon MFS-6000SP
- Paragon MFS-8000SP
- Paragon MFS-1200SP
- Paragon MFS-12000SP
- Paragon 1200 III SP
- Paragon 1200 A3 PRO (uncertain)
- Paragon 1200 SP PRO (uncertain)
- ScanExpress 6000SP
- ScanExpress 12000SP
- ScanExpress 12000SP Plus
- ScanExpress A3 SP
- ScanMagic 600 II SP
- ScanMagic 9636S (pretty much same as ScanExpress 12000SP)
- ScanMagic 9636S Plus (pretty much same as ScanExpress 12000SP Plus -probably-)
- Paragon 600 II N (parallel port might not work with amiga)
- Trust Imagery 1200 SP
- Trust Imagery 4800 SP (NOT the Trust Imagery 4800SP+ since this seems not to be a Mustek scanner)
- Trust SCSI Connect 19200
- Trust SCSI Connect 19200 Excellence (probably a ScanExpress 12000SP+)
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