[filmscanners] Re: Blue gray random pattern???

2004-10-20 Thread Brad Davis
Tony, You've given me the other answer that I had come up with (and the one I was hoping was wrong). First, he is now running USB2 from an add on board in a PCI slot, so it seems unlikely that the problem is the hardware interface - although, as you say, there are some situations where the volta

[filmscanners] Re: Blue gray random pattern???

2004-10-20 Thread Tony Sleep
Brad Davis wrote: > I wouldn't expect the interface to put in such an even (if random) > dot pattern. I have no idea how XP might be at fault, but the one thing > that would seem to be common is the XP driver for USB(1&2). No such problems here with XP USB2 and scanners or anything else. If h

[filmscanners] RE: Interferences

2004-10-20 Thread Thomas Maugham
I submit that there are actually very few cable manufacturers in the world and those few do all the manufacturing for the many vendors that sell them. Case in point, I bought a six foot USB cable in a dollar store for (surprise) one dollar. A friend bought a six foot USB cable in Radio Shack for 8

[filmscanners] Re: Interferences

2004-10-20 Thread Julian Vrieslander
On 10/20/04 12:50 PM, "Kris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Julian, while I don't disagree with the need to buy good shielded cables, I > would suggest that there are many suppliers that are more cost effective > than the cable that Apple sells. > > There's always the possibility that the specific c

[filmscanners] RE: Interferences

2004-10-20 Thread Kris
Julian, while I don't disagree with the need to buy good shielded cables, I would suggest that there are many suppliers that are more cost effective than the cable that Apple sells. There's always the possibility that the specific cable you had was faulty. The connector manufacturing, as well as t

[filmscanners] Re: Blue gray random pattern???

2004-10-20 Thread Maris V. Lidaka Sr.
It's not moire, is it? What is he scanning? Have him try a different scanning program - free trial of Vuescan. He can perhaps narrow it down to a hardware vs. a software problem. http://www.hamrick.com/ Maris Brad Davis wrote: > Hi, > > My electrician discovered that I know a little about sca

[filmscanners] Re: Interferences

2004-10-20 Thread Julian Vrieslander
As long as we are schmoozing about cables, I will put in a reminder to be wary of cheap Firewire cables. A few months ago, I was having some intermittent problems with my Nikon LS-4000. The source turned out to be a 3m FW cable that I had installed, so that I could move the scanner to a table nex

[filmscanners] Blue gray random pattern???

2004-10-20 Thread Brad Davis
Hi, My electrician discovered that I know a little about scanning and presented me with this problem. He has an Epson 2400 scanner, hooked to a PC via USB2 - the PC is running XP personal. The Epson 2400 is his 3rd try at a scanner, the USB2 is the second try at an interface. In all attempts,

[filmscanners] Re: Interferences

2004-10-20 Thread DRP
Hi Tony, hi all, thanks for inputs I believe we all have some good tagliatelle recipes! OK, firewire, USB and video cables are (sometimes) shielded but most AC cables are not, they easily can catch electromagnetic interferences, the AC power itself carries a lot of interferences : rings, mot