Fred A. Miller wrote:
The Epson Perfection 4490 is an AWESOME scanner!! I had to reinstall to
10.3 32-bit from 64-bit due to the driver not willing to work with
64-bit, and took a slight performance hit because of it. There are 2
problems that SHOULDN'T be problems, as long as this driver has been
out. They are: only 2400dpi is possible, when the scanner will do
4800x9600, and it won't scan negatives properly. Photos, line drawings
I'm pretty sure that conversion of negatives is NOT done at the
scanner level -- that's for your image manipulation software
to work out (the old do one thing, and do it well, proper division
of work principle--in this case, scanner gets the raw data... but
changing negatives to normal colors isn't a hardware function, its
an image manipulation function.) regardless of whether the M$-land
driver does it or not (M$ mis-applies LOTS of functionality, which
is why they have such problems with stability...because to many
hardware drivers are doing that just don't belong in an OS kernal.
or text, and of course transparencies - yes.....very well done. The
driver should work properly.
It sounds like the driver DOES work properly (it reads the observed
color data)... it just doesn't work like the Windows driver, because
the windows driver (foolishly) includes application-level
post-processing which is properly handled by an image manipulation
application, not a hardware driver.
Hardware drivers operate your hardware... PERIOD.
Massaging of data into a form you want is the domain of
post-processing applications.
Fred
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