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sane-ma1509(5)		  SANE Scanner Access Now Easy		  sane-ma1509(5)

NAME
     sane-ma1509 - SANE backend for Mustek BearPaw 1200F USB scanner

DESCRIPTION
     The sane-ma1509 library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) backend
     that  provides access to the Mustek BearPaw 1200F USB flatbed scanner. This
     scanner is based on the MA-1509 chipset. Other scanners that use this  chip
     (if they exist) may also work.

     This backend is ALPHA software.  Be careful and remove the power plug imme-
     diately if your hear unusual noises.

     More   details   can   be	 found	 on  the  sane-ma1509  backend	homepage
     http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/ma1509-backend/.

     Other  Mustek  USB  scanners  are	supported  by  the   sane-mustek_usb(5),
     sane-gt68xx(5) and sane-plustek(5) backends.

     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 scanner other than the Mustek BearPaw 1200F  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/scanner0  or
     libusb:001:002, for example.

CONFIGURATION
     The  contents of the ma1509.conf file is a list of options and device names
     that correspond to Mustek BearPaw 1200F scanners.	Empty  lines  and  lines
     starting with a hash mark (#) are ignored.

     Instead  of  using  the device name, the scanner can be autodetected by usb
     vendor_id	product_id  statements	 which	 are   already	 included   into
     ma1509.conf.   This  is  only supported with Linux 2.4.8 and higher and all
     systems that support libsub. "vendor_id" and "product_id"	are  hexadecimal
     numbers that identify the scanner. If this doesn't work, a device name must
     be placed in ma1509.conf as described above.

     To  set  the  time  the  lamp  needs for warm-up, use option warmup-time in
     ma1509.conf.  The time is given in seconds after the option. The default is
     30 seconds.

FILES
     /usr/local/etc/sane.d/ma1509.conf
	    The backend configuration file (see also  description  of  SANE_CON-
	    FIG_DIR below).

     /usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-ma1509.a
	    The static library implementing this backend.

     /usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-ma1509.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  directories
	    are  separated by a colon (`:'), under OS/2, they are separated 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/local/etc/sane.d.	 If  the
	    value  of the environment variable ends with the directory separator
	    character, then the default directories are searched after	the  ex-
	    plicitly  specified  directories.	For  example,  setting SANE_CON-
	    FIG_DIR to "/tmp/config:" would result in directories tmp/config, .,
	    and /usr/local/etc/sane.d being searched (in this order).

     SANE_DEBUG_MA1509
	    If the library was compiled with debug support enabled,  this  envi-
	    ronment  variable controls the debug level for this backend.  Higher
	    debug levels increase the verbosity of the output.

SEE ALSO
     sane(7), sane-usb(5), sane-gt68xx(5), sane-plustek(5),  sane-mustek_usb(5),
     sane-mustek(5), sane-mustek_pp(5),
     http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/ma1509-backend/

AUTHOR
     Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de>

BUGS
     Resolutions higher than 600 dpi don't work
     Transparency adapter and automatic document feeder is not supported yet
     No support for "high-speed" mode (jpeg)

     More  detailed bug information is available at the MA-1509 backend homepage
     http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/ma1509-backend/.

				   13 Jul 2008			  sane-ma1509(5)

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