plustek: Genius Colorpage Vivid III
Subject:
Re: Genius Colorpage Vivid III
From:
Gerhard Jaeger ####@####.####
Date:
30 Nov 2005 14:00:58 +0000
Message-Id: <200511301500.29186.gerhard@gjaeger.de>
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 13:17, Trev Jackson wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 Nov 2005 07:26, Gerhard Jaeger wrote:
> > On Monday 28 November 2005 06:50, Maria Del Monte wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I have a parport Genius Colorpage Vivid III and I tried the plustek
> > > backend with it, but it doesn't work. The resulting images are
> > > terrible. Searching the list I found a mail [1] from 2 years ago
> > > describing the same problem.
> > >
> > > I would like to know the status of this project, if it's still under
> > > active development. I can provide some samples and debugging information
> > > and some help in solving this issue.
> > >
> > > Regards
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > the project is still maintained, but as I don't have a Genius Vivid III
> > available here on my desk, I could not improve the driver - sorry. I tried
> > to get one of those devices via eBay, but had no success so far :(
> >
> > I guess the calibration stuff need to be setup correctly.
> >
> > Gerhard
> >
> >
> Hi,
>
> I also have one of these and tried to get it working under linux sometime ago,
> I tried to capture the data sent to the scanner in windows, but the capture
> program could not manage it.
>
> I would be interested in getting it working, I have done some programming and
> used an i2c capture device with my Adaptec AVC-2410 video capture card and
> have now added support for the card to the ivtv project, with some
> programming assistance from someone with a different Adaptec card.
>
> Is there a similar method of capturing data (using a separate computer to
> capture the data) for the parallel port so I could get the data that way?
>
> Best Regards
>
> Trev
Hmmm,
I'm not sure if either WINE or VMWare might be an option to do this tracking
here. Probably VMWARE + a tweaked Linux parport driver might do the trick...
My 2 cents
Gerhard
