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Getting the Old Mustek 1200 CP to work in Ubuntu 7.04

May 11th, 2007

Mustek 1200 CP

I had an old Mustek 1200 CP scanner standing in the cellar. It had been unemployed for years. I decided, however, to get it going in Ubuntu “Feisty Fawn” on my HP nc6320. Here is what to do, if you would like your old retro-scanner to work:

1. Presumably, you already have the Xsane and Sane packages going. (If not, install.)

2. Edit /etc/sane.d/mustek_pp.conf, by uncommenting the right line:

#
# Uncomment/customize to your needs
#
# scanner Mustek-600CP 0×378 cis600
#scanner Mustek-1200CP 0×378 cis1200
# scanner Mustek-1200CP+ 0×378 cis1200+
# scanner Mustek-600-IIIEP 0×378 ccd300
#

3. Edit /etc/sane.d/dll.conf by uncommenting mustek_pp:

mustek
#mustek_pp
mustek_usb

4. Save the following script as /etc/init.d/mustek:

#!/bin/bash
chmod 777 /dev/lp0 # Does it hurt?
chmod 777 /dev/parport0
exit

5. Execute the following commands:

sudo chmod a+x /etc/init.d/mustek
sudo update-rc.d mustek defaults

6. Restart the computer, and the scanner should be found in Gimp and Openoffice or Xsane.

NOTE: If things don’t work, check your BIOS settings. I had to change the parallell port settings to “Standard” on my HP nc6320.

This entry was posted on Friday, May 11th, 2007 at 6:53 pm and is filed under Whatever.

6 Responses to “Getting the Old Mustek 1200 CP to work in Ubuntu 7.04”

  1. Alessandra Says:
    October 31st, 2007 at 11:05 pm

    Thank you. It worked with my old Mustek too. But in step 3 you should add “dll.conf”. I needed to change my BIOS settings too.

  2. Bernaard Says:
    November 1st, 2007 at 5:19 pm

    Thank you Alessandra. I guess the parallel ports soon are gone for good. At least on my new laptop there’s no parallel port.

  3. Pol Says:
    March 15th, 2008 at 10:05 pm

    This work but scans only 50 %. How to change the bios settings?

  4. Bernaard Says:
    March 15th, 2008 at 10:48 pm

    Pol, it differs from computer to computer. Perhaps the best thing is to search your BIOS menus to find something about “Parallel port” or someting..? (Usually you enter your BIOS at bootup, by pressing a certain key, like F2, F12 or something.) Then I guess you can just experiment with different settings. However, your problem might turn out to be related to something else than BIOS settings… Please tell me how it goes, and maybe I can help!

  5. Pol Says:
    March 17th, 2008 at 3:21 pm

    If the picture that you scan is distorted (or only partially scanned, 50% or so), you might use cis1200+ driver instead of cis1200:

    # scanner Mustek-600CP 0×378 cis600
    #scanner Mustek-1200CP 0×378 cis1200
    scanner Mustek-1200CP+ 0×378 cis1200+
    # scanner Mustek-600-IIIEP 0×378 ccd300

    Uncomment the line “scanner Mustek 1200CP+ 0×378 cis1200+” (remove the #-sign in front of it).

    Picture will be allright. You are doing this on your own risk !

    Thanks Bernaard for help ;)

  6. Jos Pelser Says:
    November 9th, 2008 at 10:56 pm

    It works!
    Thanks for this manual, glad I didn’t have to throw my old scanner away.

    Regards,

    Jos

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