Manpages - sane-umax1220u.5

sane-umax1220u - SANE backend for the UMAX Astra 1220U and similar scanners

The sane-umax1220 library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) backend for the the UMAX Astra 1220U and similar scanners.

For more information on this backend, please visit http://umax1220u-sane.sourceforge.net/.

This backend is also able to drive the UMAX Astra 1600U/2000U/2100U. The 2100U is confirmed to work. For the other scanners no reports have been received yet. Please contact us and tell us if your scanner works (sane-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net).

Usually, no manual configuration is necessary. The configuration file for this backend resides in /etc/sane.d/umax1220u.conf.

Its content is a list of device names that correspond to UMAX Astra scanners. Empty lines and lines starting with a hash mark (#) are ignored. A sample configuration file is shown below:

   #usb vendor product
   usb 0x1606 0x0010
   # Device list for non-linux systems
   /dev/scanner
   /dev/usb/scanner0

See *sane-usb*(5) for information on how to set the access permissions on the usb device files.

The backend configuration file:

/etc/sane.d/umax1220u.conf

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The static library implementing this backend: :: /usr/lib/sane/libsane-umax1220u.a

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The shared library implementing this backend: :: /usr/lib/sane/libsane-umax1220u.so (present on systems that support dynamic loading)

SANE_DEBUG_UMAX1220U

If the library was compiled with debug support enabled, this environment variable controls the debug level for this backend. E.g., a value of 128 requests all debug output to be printed. Smaller levels reduce verbosity:

SANE_DEBUG_UMAX1220U values:

  Number  Remark
   1       print failures
   2       print information
   3       print high-level function calls
   4       print high-level function checkpoints
   9       print mid-level function calls
   10      print mid-level function checkpoints
   80      print protocol-level function entry
   90      print protocol-level function exit

Example:

export SANE_DEBUG_UMAX1220U=10

600 dpi scanning may fail for large image sizes.

If you keep getting I/O errors, try cycling the power on your scanner to reset it.

There is no way to cancel a scan, since the driver ignores *sane_cancel*().

If you try scanning an image which is too small, you will get I/O errors. Be sure to adjust the scan area before doing a scan, since by default, the scan area is zero.

*sane*(7), *sane-usb*(5)

(Old) homepage:

http://umax1220u-sane.sourceforge.net/

Marcio Luis Teixeira </marciot@users.sourceforge.net/>

sane-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net

This backend isn’t actively maintained. Nevertheless, bug reports and comments should be sent to the sane-devel mailing list. When reporting bugs, please run the backend with SANE_DEBUG_UMAX1220U set to 10 and attach a copy of the log messages.