Martin Moeller, Sonntag, 14. April 2002 21:00: > Hello everyone. > > I took a chance this Friday and bought a Medion MD 9705 Scanner, and much > as I expected it isn't supported yet by Sane. I did some digging and as far > as I can tell, it is really an Artec e+48U scanner. No Artec USB scanners > are apparently supported yet, though. Is work being done in this area? ... > It's an USB scanner (strangely enough) > It has a Vendor ID of 0x05d8 > It has a Product ID of 0x4003 > According to the Windows driver .ini file, it's an Artec48U. > > Scouring the net, it looks almost exactly like the Artec e+48U, as > witnessed here -> http://www.artec.com.tw/artec_e/index.htm (Click on the > Ultima 2000 e+). I am not sure as to the actual hardware of the thing, but > it doesn't see to be GT6801 based (it didn't do anything when I tried the > experimental driver at http://www.btinternet.com/~salet/). The scanner > described there is supposed to be an Artec Ultima 2000, though, and that > sounds rather a lot like what I have.... ... > If I can help with more information/testing, I'd be happy to, but I'm > afraid I cannot program the backend myself. > > As far as I can piece together, the Ultima 2000 is a predecessor of Ultima > 2000 e+ (also known as e+ 48U) -- Also known as Medion MD 9705 and who > knows what else. ... > So: Where should I go from here?
Hi, I've also got my hands on one of the scanners sold by Aldi, a german discounter, last week (at least for the next 2 or 3 weeks). It's called Tevion MD 9693, and has the same vendor/product id like yours. I also came to the conclusion, that it's in fact an Artec e+48U. Since it's definitely based on a GT 6816 chip, I've downloaded Sergey Vlasovs testprogram. After some hacking, I finally got it to scan something. The result isn't very useful; in fact, you can only recognize something in grayscale mode with 100 dpi. In color mode, it just hangs. I will do more testing (as said before, at least for the next 2 or 3 weeks), but unfortunately, I'm not very familiar with usb sniffers and logfile interpretation :-) However, I could send you the hacked version of the testprogram, if this might be a help. Michael
