On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 06:15:31PM +0000, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > On December 7, 2024 4:21 PM, I wrote: > > > If you are able, please recommend a black-and-white Postscript laser > > printer that will work well with Debian (Bookworm). ... > > With advice from the group, I bought a Brother DCP-L2640DW driverless > monochrome printer/scanner. I run the fvwm window manager and can print with > lp and scan with xsane. I never installed the Brother printer, scanner, or > BR-Script3 drivers. > > So I'm mostly happy, but I can't say I really understand who's doing what. > Here are three questions. > > [...] > 3. With xscan, the scan quality is good enough for most purposes. But when I > tested some fine engraving (like a dollar bill), it was less sharp than I get > with my old Epson Perfection 2400 (from 2004). In both cases I asked for 300 > dpi and set JPG quality as high as possible. The Brother at 600 dpi didn't > match the Epson at 300 dpi. Would installing the Brother scanner driver be > an improvement, or is this just a limitation of the hardware? >
I hope you tried with something other than paper money. Usually all paper currency have some pattern (like an irregular five of a dice) embedded. Most imaging software won't allow to process these images (in high quality) -H -- Henning Follmann | hfollm...@itcfollmann.com
