Re: filmscanners: Fast, decent (if you are lucky), low res scans

2001-05-31 Thread Arthur Entlich
I have to agree with Ed's comments. Wouldn't it be nice if products came with a diagnostic chip and buffer, that would record all basic information of conditions at a specific time (well, maybe not "all", such as composition of air in the room, or how many beers the operator had consumed ;-)),

Re: filmscanners: Fast, decent (if you are lucky), low res scans

2001-05-30 Thread Lynn Allen
Ed Hamrick wrote: >I think a bigger problem with warranty repairs is being unable to reproduce the problem. Sometimes problems only occur under rare combinations of operating system, scsi (or usb) controller, room temperature, or phase of the moon . Who hasn't noticed that your car never makes

Re: filmscanners: Fast, decent (if you are lucky), low res scans

2001-05-30 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 5/29/2001 12:22:00 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > This is bizarre, but that reads like the problem I'm having with my flatbet > HP 6300C. The difference is (and I'm sorry now that I didn't download and > save Jerry's examples), that the banding is perpendicular to the sc

Re: filmscanners: Fast, decent (if you are lucky), low res scans

2001-05-30 Thread EdHamrick
In a message dated 5/29/2001 4:28:59 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > The problem is, unlike the actual > manufacturer, they are rarely supplied with enough replacement units to > be able to just make a decision to trade the broken model with a new > sealed or out of box model. I think

Re: filmscanners: Fast, decent (if you are lucky), low res scans

2001-05-29 Thread Arthur Entlich
Oostrom, Jerry wrote: > [Oostrom, Jerry] I also phoned Acer and came in direct contact with the > engineer. She seemed to be a Japanese, not yet speaking any dutch. Thus she > was probably sent here to strengthen the technical staff of the service > unit. So although my problem is not (yet) s

RE: filmscanners: Fast, decent (if you are lucky), low res scans

2001-05-29 Thread Lynn Allen
Jerry Oostrom wrote (re his Acer Scanwit) > (symptoms: brown-yellowish bands with negatives along the scan direction at the boundaries of the frame for light parts of the photo, similar problem with positive-film in dark shadowish parts, I've mailed examples to this forum in the past) . This is

RE: filmscanners: Fast, decent (if you are lucky), low res scans

2001-05-29 Thread Oostrom, Jerry
Reply is below. BTW. I blind-carbon-copied this mail to several of the involved people at Acer, so that they are again reminded to the advertising power of users (actually also not to talk too much behind their backs). I suggest some of them follow this filmscanner mailing list to hear the public