Howto: Mustek 1200 UB Plus USB Scanner Install / Setup

[williamts99]

An easy, cut and paste way to get The Mustek 1200 UB Plus USB Scanner or one of it's clones working in Ubuntu Breezy through Ubuntu Maverick and beyond.

Open the Terminal(Applications>Accessories>Terminal), copy and paste the following one at a time.

To get to the proper directory:

cd /usr/share/sane/gt68xx

To download the driver firmware file sbfw.usb from the SANE gt68xx-backend site:

sudo wget http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/gt68xx-backend/firmware/sbfw.usb

Then open the gt68xx.conf file for editing:

sudo gedit /etc/sane.d/gt68xx.conf

Replace / Uncomment: hint: use ctrl+f to find

#override "mustek-scanexpress-1200-ub-plus"

With:

override "mustek-scanexpress-1200-ub-plus"

That's all there is to it, now you can go to Applications>Graphics>XSane Image Scanner(or SimpleScan) to scan your images.
Enjoy!!

The only thing better would be a script to do it for you
Edit: A mirror location just in case the sbfw.usb host goes down. http://www.multiupload.com/4LNXQQKTC6

[zarazooo]

thx

[williamts99]

No problem, glad it helped someone

[visible]

I don't know how you folks figure this stuff out bot, I am so glad you do! thanks for the great info! works 100% Even better than in windows!

[wolfsandwich]

i tried but it didn't work for me, i keep getting the "no devices available" message. i have the MUSTEK PLUG-N-SCAN 1200 USB. it was still in the box (and wrapped in plastic) when i bought it last week and i've got the cd's that came with it, but i can't seem to figure out how to make the thing work with my ubuntu 6.06. just to see if it works i tried it on my old windows98 laptop and it installed and scanned well.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks.

[alienexplorers]

Try loading sane and xsane, then add the libsane and libsane-extras files. I needed these to get my Mustek model 4800 running.

[kimo_2020]

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[wolfsandwich]

my solution: buy another scanner for five dollars, give the other scanner to a friend.

[naught101]

that's a nice howto thanks.

[robc02]

I am trying to get my Mustek Scanmagic 1200USB working.

lsusb gives:

Bus 004 Device 003: ID 055f:0003 Mustek Systems, Inc. ScanExpress 1200 USB

I have followed the above instructions but Xsane reports "no devices available"

sane-find-scanner gives:

found USB scanner (vendor=0x055f, product=0x0003, chip=MA-1017) at libusb:004:003
# Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
# SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

scanimage-L gives:

No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages)

I am not sure what to do next - any ideas?