Sane driver for primax scanners under Linux

Supported scanners

The following scanners are supported and tested:

• Primax Colorado 300 Direct
• Network Scanny MM100 (Media Markt)

These should work but are not tested:

• Storm Totalscan
• Storm ImageWave
• Genius Colorpage-Vivid+
• Primax Colorado Direct 600/30bit

Currently NOT supported are:

• all kind of USB/SCSI scanners
• Primax Colorado 4800 (these are relabeled Plustek scanners)
• Primax D9600 - try pxscan
• Primax 1200p - try pxscan

Links

• The Primax Scanner Driver Project for Linux/UN*X
• Linux driver for the Primax Colorado Direct 9600 scanner and other scanners based on the 'E3' ASIC
• Sane homepage
• The primaxd sourceforge page

Download

Debian packages and the sources can be found here. Please ignore the primaxd packages. These are old and no longer used.

Setup

Working frontends

• StarOffice
• XSane
• xscanimage
• scanimage
• Gimp with Xsane or xscanimage plugin

Contact

If you have some problems, hints, bugs, questions, suggestions or even stupid comments. Feel free to contact me.