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Scanner is a Mustek Paragon 600 III SP Plus marketed by Fujitsu.  Doesn't
quite appear to correspond to any models on the American site.  Digging
around in the Japanese Mustek site, and also via link from research on the
Fujitsu site I came to these URLs.

http://www.mustek.co.jp/download.htm
http://www.mustek.co.jp/faq/6003spfaq.htm

Helpful, but...  The closest driver match seems to be talking about  a model
referred to as the PLUG-N-SCAN600 III EPPlus, and I'm not sure how closely
this matches to what I need...  That seems to be a parallel port model, and
I have a SCSI type.  The situation is that the scanner is working pretty
well, but not as well as my other scanner (USB), and I don't know if there
are any newer drivers and if they would help...  I thought SCSI would be
better, but so far I'd say not.

Right now, the scanner reports that the driver is version 1.0, the firmware
is version 1.0, and the TWAIN driver is version 1.01.  There didn't seem to
be any problem during the installation process, though there wasn't much on
the CD.  When I look in the Windows 98 device manager, however, it shows the
scanner with a big question mark, as though it isn't quite sure what is
going on there.  It does know it's a scanner, but that seems to be about
all...  During actual scans, the machine is basically locked up most of the
time, while my USB scanner leaves the machine free for other work, even
during large color scans.

A minor issue is that the Mustek has no on/off switch and leaves the light
on continuously unless I unplug it.  I suspect there is nothing that can be
done about that...  The USB scanner (an Omron) does the right thing and
allows its light to be turned off when it isn't doing anything.

Another minor issue is that it appears to be impossible to use both scanners
at the same time, even using separate control programs and separate TWAIN
drivers.  My latest wild theory is that there is shared non-reentrant code
in the Microsoft TWAIN .DLLs, so that's another one that probably can't be
helped.

Suggestions?  Latest version numbers?  Comparable experiences?

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