Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Simple scan

2013-10-17 Thread Jimmy Sjölund
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Len Ovens l...@ovenwerks.net 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

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Simple scan

2013-10-17 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 if

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Simple scan

2013-10-17 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 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 for

[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

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

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

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 12.04.3 - it