Hi, My electrician discovered that I know a little about scanning and presented me with this problem.
He has an Epson 2400 scanner, hooked to a PC via USB2 - the PC is running XP personal. The Epson 2400 is his 3rd try at a scanner, the USB2 is the second try at an interface. In all attempts, he gets a light cyan-gray random pattern across all scans. This shows most clearly in white areas. It looks very much like what I would get using Photoshop and doing a random fill with noise at perhaps 10%. (I've never done anything other than a 50% noise fill, so that number is a very rough estimate.) The gray pattern, while random, is much too regular to be from interference, and it appears in the image, on the monitor - it isn't being added by the printer. He is using the Epson supplied software to do his scans and has had numerous folks look at his set up with no one being able to figure out what is causing the problem. That he has tried three different scanners seems to eliminate them as the cause. I wouldn't expect the interface to put in such an even (if random) dot pattern. I have no idea how XP might be at fault, but the one thing that would seem to be common is the XP driver for USB(1&2). I may be precipitous in asking this before I see his set up, but it occurs to me that someone may have experienced this already, and I won't get a chance to look at his set up for some days. I also believe from the description of the folks who have looked at it, that I may not see anything telling anyway. If there is any other data that I need to gather, let me know, he will be rewiring my kitchen for at least another day. Thanks for any help, Brad ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
