Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Simple scan

2013-10-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-10-17 at 08:15 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-10-17 at 07:59 +0200, Jimmy Sjölund wrote: > > That said I agree it makes good sense to use XSane for the Ubuntu > > Studio workflows if it allows to scan directly to Gimp and other > > applications, and the alternative scanning

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Simple scan

2013-10-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-10-17 at 07:59 +0200, Jimmy Sjölund wrote: > That said I agree it makes good sense to use XSane for the Ubuntu > Studio workflows if it allows to scan directly to Gimp and other > applications, and the alternative scanning applications don't have > that feature. IMO it doesn't matter

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Simple scan

2013-10-16 Thread Jimmy Sjölund
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Len Ovens wrote: > Ok, having figgured that out. Is there anyone who uses scanning for > critical things where colour setup and other such things matter who can > tell us which scanning application gives the best results? Or do people > scan first and then use a s

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Simple scan

2013-10-16 Thread Len Ovens
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013, David Henningsson wrote: On 10/14/2013 09:45 PM, Len Ovens wrote: I am running 12.04.3 on the machine that has the scanner. Maybe newer versions support colour. Next to the "Scan" button there is a drop-down menu. Select "text" for quick monochrome scan. Select "photo"

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Simple scan

2013-10-14 Thread David Henningsson
On 10/14/2013 09:45 PM, Len Ovens wrote: > I am running 12.04.3 on the machine that has the scanner. Maybe newer > versions support colour. Next to the "Scan" button there is a drop-down menu. Select "text" for quick monochrome scan. Select "photo" for slower color scan. I just tried it on 12.04

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Simple scan

2013-10-14 Thread Len Ovens
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote: SImple-scan gives color scans on my machine with a networked Kodak esp5250, a notoriously difficult device to set up but for which cheap ink is easily found. I also have Xsane installed, in fact its what I usually use simply because I have al

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Simple scan

2013-10-14 Thread lukefromdc
SImple-scan gives color scans on my machine with a networked Kodak esp5250, a notoriously difficult device to set up but for which cheap ink is easily found. I also have Xsane installed, in fact its what I usually use simply because I have always used it. I just tested simple-scan right now becaus

[ubuntu-studio-devel] Simple scan

2013-10-14 Thread Len Ovens
Simple scan is a nice quick easy to use scanner control appication ubuntustudio ships with. I have used it since we added it and been happy with it... till this past week. It seems to does a great job of scanning high contrast/monchrome papers (ie. text). However, this past week I needed to sca