>> Thanks for the samples. I've never seen this particular problem before. I'll >> have to take a crack at seeing if I can reproduce this to make 100% sure >> it's not an issue with your hardware. You'll have to hang tight before I can >> find an Artisan 710 and some free time to investigate.
I couldn't get hold of an Artisan 710, so I instead used an Artisan 700 as you mentioned that the problem affected this scanner as well. I tried scanning with scanimage at 75, 150 and 300 dpi both with the latest development version of iscan and with iscan 2.21. Unfortunately, I was unable to reproduce the problem seen in the sample image you sent me. At this point I honestly don't know what the problem could be. A faulty USB cable perhaps? Just grasping at straws here. I am going to ask around a bit more to see if anyone else has seen this phenomenon before. I'll let you know if I dig anything up, but I wouldn't hold my breath. One more thing you could try is a different distro. You could try downloading Ubuntu 10.04, run it as a live cd and download and install the latest iscan/epkowa package found here (you have to select your scanner and fill in the short questionnaire): http://www.avasys.jp/lx-bin2/linux_e/spc/DL1.do Again, grasping at straws. Happy scanning, -- Alesh Slovak Linux Team -- AVASYS Corporation alesh.slovak at avasys.jp http://avasys.jp