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sane-mustek_usb(5)	 SANE Scanner Access Now Easy	    sane-mustek_usb(5)

NAME
       sane-mustek_usb - SANE backend for Mustek USB flatbed scanners

DESCRIPTION
       The sane-mustek_usb library implements a	SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy)
       backend	that provides access to	Mustek USB flatbed scanners (including
       a clone from Trust).  At	present, the following scanners	are  known  to
       work more or less with this backend:

	      Mustek 600 CU
	      Mustek 1200 UB
	      Mustek 1200 CU
	      Mustek 1200 CU Plus
	      Trust Compact Scan USB 19200

       More   details  can  be	found  on  the	Mustek	USB  backend  homepage
       http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/mustek_usb-backend/.

       The Mustek BearPaw 1200 and 2400	scanners are supported by the  plustek
       backend.	 See  sane-plustek(5) for details. The Mustek BearPaw 1200F is
       supported by the	MA-1509	backend. See sane-ma1509(5) for	details. Other
       Mustek  USB  scanners  are  supported  by  the  gt68xx	backend,   see
       sane-gt68xx(5).

       This  backend  can only work with scanners that are already detected by
       the operating system. See sane-usb(5) for details.

       If you own a Mustek (or Trust) scanner other than the ones listed above
       that works with this backend, please let	me know	this  by  sending  the
       scanner's exact model name and the USB vendor and device	ids (e.g. from
       /proc/bus/usb/devices or	syslog)	to me.

DEVICE NAMES
       This backend expects device names of the	form:

	      special

       Where special is	a path-name for	the special device that	corresponds to
       a  USB scanner.	With Linux, such a device name could be	/dev/usb/scan-
       ner0 or /dev/usbscanner1, for example.

       For FreeBSD use /dev/uscanner0.

CONFIGURATION
       The contents of the mustek_usb.conf file	is a list of options  and  de-
       vice  names  that  correspond  to Mustek	USB scanners.  Empty lines and
       lines starting with a hash mark (#) are ignored.	If a  device  name  is
       placed in mustek_usb.conf, it must be followed by a line	containing the
       keyword option and an option specifying the scanner type. The following
       options can be used: 600cu, 1200cu, 1200cu_plus,	1200ub.	 For the Trust
       Compact Scan USB	19200 use `option 1200ub'.

       Instead	of  using  the device name, the	scanner	can be autodetected by
       usb vendor_id product_id	statements which  are  already	included  into
       mustek_usb.conf.	  This	is  only supported with	Linux 2.4.8 and	higher
       and all systems that support libusb. "vendor_id"	and  "product_id"  are
       hexadecimal  numbers that identify the scanner. If this doesn't work, a
       device name and the option specifying the scanner type must  be	placed
       in mustek_usb.conf as described above.

       The  global  option  max_block_size  can	be used	to limit the amount of
       data acquired in	one turn from the USB system. It may be	worth  trying,
       if USB errors occur.

       A sample	configuration file is shown below:

	      #	Comment
	      option max_block_size 1024
	      usb 0x055f 0x0001
	      /dev/usb/scanner0
	      option 600cu

       The  first  line	 is ignored. The second	line sets the buffer size to a
       maximum of 1024 bytes.  The third line tries to	autodetect  a  scanner
       with  vendor  id	 0x055f	 and  product  id 0x0001 (Mustek 1200 CU). The
       fourth line tells the backend to	attach to  /dev/usb/scanner0  and  the
       fifth line specifies that /dev/usb/scanner0 is a	Mustek 600 CU.

FILES
       /usr/local/etc/sane.d/mustek_usb.conf
	      The   backend   configuration  file  (see	 also  description  of
	      SANE_CONFIG_DIR below).

       /usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-mustek_usb.a
	      The static library implementing this backend.

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

ENVIRONMENT
       SANE_CONFIG_DIR
	      This environment variable	specifies the list of directories that
	      may contain the configuration file.  On *NIX systems, the	direc-
	      tories are separated by a	colon (`:'), under OS/2, they are sep-
	      arated by	a semi-colon (`;').  If	this variable is not set,  the
	      configuration  file  is  searched	 in  two  default directories:
	      first, the current working directory (".") and then in  /usr/lo-
	      cal/etc/sane.d.	If  the	value of the environment variable ends
	      with the directory separator character, then the default	direc-
	      tories  are searched after the explicitly	specified directories.
	      For example, setting SANE_CONFIG_DIR to "/tmp/config:" would re-
	      sult in directories tmp/config, ., and /usr/local/etc/sane.d be-
	      ing searched (in this order).

       SANE_DEBUG_MUSTEK_USB
	      If the library was compiled with debug support enabled, this en-
	      vironment	variable controls the debug level  for	this  backend.
	      Higher debug levels increase the verbosity of the	output.

	      Value  Description
	      0	     no	output
	      1	     print fatal errors
	      2	     print important messages
	      3	     print non-fatal errors and	less important messages
	      4	     print all but debugging messages
	      5	     print high	level debugging	messages
	      6	     print medium level	debugging messages
	      7	     print low level debugging messages

	      Example: export SANE_DEBUG_MUSTEK_USB=4

SEE ALSO
       sane(7),	 sane-usb(5),  sane-mustek(5),	sane-mustek_pp(5),  sane-plus-
       tek(5), sane-gt68xx(5), sane-ma1509(5)
       /usr/local/share/doc/sane-backends/mustek_usb/mustek_usb.CHANGES,
       /usr/local/share/doc/sane-backends/mustek_usb/mustek_usb.TODO
       http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/mustek_usb-backend/

AUTHOR
       Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de>
       This backend is based on	the Mustek 1200ub backend from	Mustek,	 main-
       tained by Tom Wang.

BUGS
       These  devices  have a hardware bug: Once data is written to them, they
       can't be	reset (toggle =	DATA0).	That means, any	operation  that	 tries
       to reset	the device will	result in running into timeouts.

       In  earlier  versions this backend failed when it was loaded the	second
       time in some configurations. The	only choice was	to replug the  scanner
       in  this	 case. The backend uses	a workaround for that bug now but it's
       only tested on Linux. Reports for other operating systems are  appreci-
       ated.

       More  detailed bug information is available at the Mustek backend home-
       page http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/mustek_usb-backend/.

				  13 Jul 2008		    sane-mustek_usb(5)

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