It's not moire, is it? What is he scanning? Have him try a different scanning program - free trial of Vuescan. He can perhaps narrow it down to a hardware vs. a software problem.
http://www.hamrick.com/ Maris Brad Davis wrote: > 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). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
