primax: Thread: Plustek, Primax...

I have a Primax 4800D scanner. This scanner is supposed to be compatible
with PlusTek OpticsPro 4800P (that's what Primax had told me when I was
searching for NT drivers).

And there is a SANE driver for PlusTek scanners 
(http://www.efn.org/~rick/plustek/) based on a code donated by PlusTek.
However these drivers are not really perfect (that's what it says on the
web page, I haven't tested it yet) as it locks the machine during
scanning.

Maybe you guys could learn about protocol from PlusTek code and then hack
up a new, better driver (hehe, that would really make me glad). I would
love to help, but I don't have a clue about C. 


    D.

On 06-May-99 Danilo Godec wrote:
> I have a Primax 4800D scanner. This scanner is supposed to be compatible
> with PlusTek OpticsPro 4800P (that's what Primax had told me when I was
> searching for NT drivers).
> 
> And there is a SANE driver for PlusTek scanners 
> (http://www.efn.org/~rick/plustek/) based on a code donated by PlusTek.
> However these drivers are not really perfect (that's what it says on the
> web page, I haven't tested it yet) as it locks the machine during
> scanning.
> 
> Maybe you guys could learn about protocol from PlusTek code and then hack
> up a new, better driver (hehe, that would really make me glad). I would
> love to help, but I don't have a clue about C. 
> 
> 
>     D.
> 
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Well, have you tried our Alpha driver? (it works for Primax Colorado Direct
scanners using vmxd.vxd as Win95 driver...)


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On Thu, 6 May 1999, Christian Ordig wrote:

> 
> Well, have you tried our Alpha driver? (it works for Primax Colorado Direct
> scanners using vmxd.vxd as Win95 driver...)
> 

I have, but it seems that Primax 4800D is not nearly compatible with
Colorado Direct. The driver did not recognize the scanner.

Oh, and I guess my scanner doesn't use vmxd.vxd - this file is not
mentioned in the registry and it is not on the disk.


   D.