[sane-devel] Binary mode scanning?

Nick Lindsell nick@nexnix.co.uk
Mon, 25 Nov 2002 09:20:49 +0000


Hi Gerhard,
         Thanks for looking into my problem. FYI the scanner worked fine
in all modes when I used the Epson provided backend. Also there is
a workaround (in case anyone is interested) by scanning in Gray mode
with contrast set to 75 - this gets me where I want to be anyway. :)

ttfn
nick@nexnix

 >Hi Nick,
 >this effect is new although I think that somebody had reported
 >some problems with the binary mode...
I>'ll check this as soon as I got this device.
 >Gerhard
 >>On Friday, 22. November 2002 14:08, Nick Lindsell wrote:
 >> Greetings list,
 >> I cannot scan properly in binary mode with an Epson 1260 using sane 1.0.9
 >> plustek.
 >> Color and grayscale are fine but in binary mode only the left third of the
 >> image is
 >> taken. See "http://www.skywhale.org.uk/tmp/scantest.htm" for the actual
 >> output.
 >>
 >> Any suggestions on where I should start looking to get a resolution for
 >> this? ( I don't code very well in C - at least for the last 15 years).
 >>
 >> many thanks
 >> nick@nexnix (again)
 >>