Howto: Mustek 1200 UB Plus USB Scanner Install / Setup

Thank you very much, williamts99!
Three years after it was written, it is still an object lesson in How To write a How To.
My scanner works, and it was easier than *******.
Phil

Tested with Maverick 10.10: Works well, thanks a lot! :)

Tested on 10.04 Lucid, works, thank you very much...
(even though written 3 years ago thanks again)

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Originally Posted by Borodiychuk

Tested with Maverick 10.10: Works well, thanks a lot! :)

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Hi,
I'm on Maverik 10.10 too but does'nt work: with xsane I've this error:

"Non è possibile aprire il dispositivo 'gt68xx:libusb:002:003': l'argomento non è valido"

That in english is something like:

"Impossibile open the device 'gt68xx:libusb:002:003': invalid argument"

And, with lsusb, i see that 002:003 is the scanner:


federico@federico-F5SL:~$ lsusb
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0b05:1712 ASUSTek Computer, Inc. BT-183 Bluetooth 2.0+EDR adapter
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 05d8:4002 Ultima Electronics Corp. Artec Ultima 2000 (GT6801 based)/Lifetec LT9385/ScanMagic 1200 UB Plus Scanner
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 046d:c505 Logitech, Inc. Cordless Mouse+Keyboard Receiver
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0bda:0116 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Mass Storage Device
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04f2:b012 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd 1.3 MPixel UVC Webcam
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0409:005a NEC Corp. HighSpeed Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub


Any idea?


Missing permission:

federico@federico-F5SL:/usr/share/sane/gt68xx$ sudo chmod a+r *

Now works

Thanks ;)

Nice to see it's still working! :)

WOOOOW!! Thanks for this! I finally got my scanner to work! You know that they're hard to get to work with vista? WOW. with linux, I only needed 5 minutes to make it work! Thank you very much for this!

EDIT: Can someone help me? The scanner is detected and it works but, the output is really terrible. The problem is the the image(output) is really blurry. I tried different DPI's from 75-2400 and the blurry-ness is still there. Please help!

nice, thanks...

Hi every1,

have Mustek BearPaw 1200TA that is detected by "SimpleScan" bu after clicking scan it shouts: " unable to connect to scanner". The scanner is powered on and connected by USB cable. The lsusb gives:

Bus 002 Device 003: ID 055f:021e Mustek Systems, Inc. BearPaw 1200 TA/CS

so what is wrong, please help

Hi williamts99,

Tx a lot. After 5,5 years this how-to is still working great. Took me 2 minutes to find your post and get my Mustek 1200 UB Plus working:)

Greetz,

J@n