Hello.
I've still got an "old" parallel IBM Color Flatbed Scanner and the original CD that came with it. Although the device is connected and powered on it's not detected by Simple Scan, gscan2pdf, XSane Image scanning program or Skanlite. I don't know whether the CD is for Linux and didn't find any *.fw firmware files on it. In Ubuntu 16.04 LTS I can't run the setup.exe. When trying, the archive administration window pops up (*.cab files on CD) as well as meesage that says while loading the archive, an error occured. IBM informed me, they gave the service to Ricoh. They didn't reply, yet. After running the setup.exe, installing the software and running the scanning program with Wine, the scanner is still not being recognized.
The device is neither found by your Scanner Search Engine, mentioned in Current Stable SANE Version, SANE Development (git) Version, SANE External Backends nor in Old SANE Versions (I checked every single one from 1.0.25 to 1.00).
VueScan doesn't detect the scanner, too. IBM isn't in their supported scanners list at all.
Searching the web, I found the site http://www.bioticaindia.com/0275-011.html. It says "Some of drivers are working on Linux OS, for example Ubuntu or Debian". However, I can't download the .zip file maybe due to my browser settings.
A user on "ask ubuntu" recommended using a parallel-to-usb cable.
Could you help me, please?
Bernd
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