Subject:
Re: feedback - test of a new scanner
From:
"Jaeger, Gerhard" ####@####.####
Date:
6 Jan 2002 12:48:04 -0000
Message-Id: <16NCg9-2IApm4C@fmrl04.sul.t-online.com>
Michael,
thank you for this report. I will update the documentation!
I will also try an introduce the adjustment of the scan-area by using
options in the plustek.conf file, but this won't be available before
SANE-1.0.7, when the USB backend is integrated...
Have fun...
Gerhard
On Sunday, 6. January 2002 01:09, Michael Groß wrote:
> Dear G.Jaeger,
> i thank you a lot for this driver and the instructions, how to install it,
> especally the german instruction, written by Johannes Prix.
>
> *************************************************************************
> My configuration:
> -----------------
> - Desktop-PC
> - Intel Celeron 566 MHz CPU
> - 384 MB RAM
> - Asus CUSL-2 Motherboard with Intel 815E chipset
> - Graphik: onboard
>
> - Parallelport-Flatbedscanner on lp0;
> manufacturer: Genius
> type: ColorPage-Vivid Pro II Film (with transparency unit)
> "S/N:4911603772" (maybe scanners serial number, printed on a stick-on
> label on scanners back)
>
> - SuSE 7.3 Professional
> - Sane 1.0.5
> - driver package: plustek-sane-0_39_7.tar.gz
>
> *************************************************************************
> Installation
> ------------
> I used the instruction and software listed above. One thing is different on
> my configuration: I have to use "make all" instead just "make".
> (Instruction on site "Treiber kompilieren", thats node6.html)
>
> Two hints:
> - bevor install, turn off your computer, plug in and turn on the scanner
> and turn on the computer. I've forget it, so that got an error after "make
> load".
> I did as written above and repeated "depmod -av" and "make load". Then
> it worked.
> - On a SuSE-System: Read the file /usr/share/doc/packages/sane/README.SuSE
> !! - based on that informations, i removed the "#" bevor "plustek" in
> /etc/sane.d/dll.conf
>
> *************************************************************************
> Testing the driver
> ----------------------
> scanimage -L gives back:
> device `plustek:/dev/pt_drv' is a Plustek 9636T/12000T flatbed scanner
>
> Test : Result
>
> # journal frontsite over whole scanarea (color, 50 dpi, +20% brightness):
> ok # like bevor, but 300dpi: ok
> # journal frontsite over whole scanarea (gray, 300 dpi, +20% brightness):
> ok # like bevor, but 600dpi: ok
> # textsite of same journal (halftone, 600 dpi, +0% brightness) : ok, but to
> bright
> # like bevor, but 300dpi and -20% brightness : ok (!)
>
> Using transparency unit with a photonegative and +0% brightness for
> following tests:
> # transparency (show negative as negative), 600 dpi: ok
> # like bevor, 300dpi : ok
> # negative (show negative as positive), 600 dpi: ok
> # like bevor, 300dpi : ok
>
> The sensor never hits the end of scanning area.
>
> Using transparency unit, it cuts in every case the right site (if you look
> from cable-end of the scanner) very sharp: even enough, to lost nothing of
> the picture (?) - on the left site it leaves to much space, i think.
>
> Resume: The scanner worked very fine. The result is the same like using the
> original driver on MS Windows. There are no serious problems.
>
> **************************************************************************
> Michael Gross, Berlin
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