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On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:18:41AM +0200, Henk Abma wrote: > Hello, >=20 > I bought an epsop perfection 1650 recently, installed sane 1.0.7 and had > great results with scanimage in a few minutes after unpacking. Great!!! >=20 > However attempting to scan a negative slide produced results that look > unimpressive! http://f33158.upc-f.chello.nl/foto3.jpg is an example. That's because you have to do all the image manipulation to get from a negative scan to an acceptable positive yourself. You can use a frontend that does this step for you or at least makes it easier (e.g. XSane or IScan!), but it is possible to do it manually and get good results. I have a short step by step instruction on my web site=20 (http://khk.net/sane/gimp_negative_scanning.html). >=20 > Also before scanning begins I get a 'receive error [3] status code =3D 9' > (only with the negative scans) and a next scans from negatives gives scre= ens > full of status code 5 messages. This is very likely a timeout condition that is caused by an older kernel. Which kernel version are you using? Karl Heinz --=20 Karl Heinz Kremer k...@khk.net PGP Key at http://www.khk.net/download/khk.asc EPSON Sane Backend: http://www.khk.net --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8sOcxxejv3RfKrhsRAgydAKDS89MjZxBag1GKvAlUC/gnxc3oYACfZes9 IlhZP+jK/ysLeaBDCnM8Kic= =BR9G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt--