[sane-devel] Snapscan (Acer stw 4300U)

[Oliver Schwartz]

Hi,

> I found 2 problems after some more poking around. The scanner
> needed some sort of reset as it was in a state that was like it was
> turned off in mid scan, I' not sure what happened there. And
> secondly it needed the firmware ;-) which was obtained at the Benq
> (?) website.
>
> Is there a way to send a reset to the scanner to send it to it's
> 'home' position?

No, not as a single command. You can download a firmware file via 
acerfirm, that should reset the scanner (and power-off/power-on will 
also help). But why would you need it? Does the scanner still stop in 
mid scan?

Regards,

Oliver