0409:004e SuperScript 1400 Series

NEC Corp.

Vendor ID
0409
Product ID
004e
Combined
0409:004e
Decimal
1033:78

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a SuperScript 1400 Series manufactured by NEC Corp.. The vendor ID 0409 is registered to NEC Corp. with the USB Implementers Forum, and 004e is the product ID that NEC Corp. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 0409:004e NEC Corp. SuperScript 1400 Series.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0409:004e NEC Corp. SuperScript 1400 Series

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 0409:004e, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 0409:004e. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=0409, idProduct=004e.

Windows

In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:

USB\VID_0409&PID_004E
USB\VID_0409&PID_004E&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_0409&PID_004E"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    SuperScript 1400 Series:
      Product ID: 0x004e
      Vendor ID: 0x0409  (NEC Corp.)

Driver help

Having driver issues with this device? Most USB devices are handled by a generic class driver; if yours shows up as an unknown device, confirm the ID above first, then check the manufacturer's downloads page.

Raw usb.ids entry

The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:

0409  NEC Corp.
	004e  SuperScript 1400 Series

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