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May 19, 2026 at 3:44 pm #204952
Pongo
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    sybok wrote:

    If the site I link is legit, then perhaps, you may find some drivers there:
    https://www.mustek.com/support/driver-manual-downloads.html

    Is your device listed in any of these below?
    http://sane-project.org/man/sane-mustek_pp.5.html
    http://sane-project.org/man/sane-mustek_usb.5.html

    But I have no idea; I once used ‘cups’ to manully find a printer and manually provided a best-match PPD file (which I downloaded from a seemingly reliable source) and it worked.

    Thx sybok! I always value anything you say. I tried those links. My scanner is the large format A3 one called the Mustek A3 1200 Pro. My final hope was with Vuescan –a German company that has proprietary Linux software for a truckload of various scanners. I contacted them about my scanner after discovering even their software was unable to detect my scanner, and the owner of the company responded very promptly and said there wasn’t really anyway to get the scanner working in Linux because it depended on Windows. He said:

    Unfortunately, it only works with this scanner on Windows with a WIA scanner driver installed for it.

    Regards,

    Ed Hamrick

    They have Windows versions of the scanner software too. It was a beautiful piece of software too! I would have bought it had it worked.

    antiX 26 Stephen Kapos 5.10.240-antiX.1-486-smp on a Pentium IV @ 2 Ghz and 2 GB of RAM. 2002 Gateway desktop. 140 GB hdd has "/" and 100 GB partition on 2nd drive has "/Home" using IceWM de. Dual booting with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on another partition.