On Saturday 02 August 2003 07:23, Karl Heinz Kremer wrote: >Have you tried EPSON Kowa's IScan? > >You can download it from this link: >http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/lsd_e.html > >I don't know if this will produce better scans. I don't have this >scanner, >so I don't have any first hand experience. What I know is that the > IScan software produces pretty good scans (even from negatives) > with other EPSON scanners. > >Karl Heinz
I just tried yesterday to make and install iscan-1.5.2, and I think I've fixed the .dll and the epkowa files in sane.d, but neither xsane, sane-find-scanner nor scan-image -L shows it. Suggestions appreciated, other than boiling my head :) > >On Friday, August 1, 2003, at 05:13 AM, Timo Pylvänäinen wrote: >> Has anyone produced reasonable scans of negatives with >> Epson Perfection 1260? I don't have windows, so I don't really >> know what the best this scanner can do is, but xsane produces >> unacceptable results. >> >> Some have mentioned the "stripes" that appear in the scans. >> I too, get something like stripes on the scans. A long time >> ago someone in the archives has suspected something like a >> self calibration failure. I doubt this is the case. The >> stripes seem to be as a result of noise. >> >> Sufficiently light slides scan okay. Negatives and darker slides, >> which require software brightening, suffer from the noise. I >> suspect the noise appears a bit striped because some parts of the >> sensor are more susceptible. This theory is backed up by expirent >> where, instead of the film adapter unit, I used a brighter lamp to >> illuminate the slide. >> This seems to lead to reduced noise and apparently no stripes. >> >> Somehow I suspect that windows software will not produce this >> noise. Could it be possible that the TPU has a brigthness settings >> which (x)sane doesn't set properly? Or that the scanner sensor has >> some sensitivity setting which is not set properly? >> >> -Timo >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sane-devel mailing list >> sane-de...@www.mostang.com >> http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > >_______________________________________________ >Sane-devel mailing list >sane-de...@www.mostang.com >http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.