On Sunday 29 January 2006 18:26, a tiny voice compelled Mick to write: > Hi All, > > I have been trying to use a CanoScan N650U scanner to copy a printed A4 > sheet of corporate headed paper with some black text (a typical letter, > nothing too complicated in terms of image quality). > > I used xsane and kooka. Xsane prints it directly, but the image is > misaligned on the page (the header logo is chopped in half). It's as if > the page has been zoomed into. I have selected Full Size so I don't know > why this happens. Can it be adjusted - how? > > Kooka on the other hand scales and centers the image nicely, no manual > intervention is required. However, it does not print directly but always > saves the scanned image as a file. If I select it and press print an error > comes up saying that it won't print because the file is 0 bytes in > size. :-@ > > On top of all this, choosing to copy it in colour (there's a bit of colour > in the company logo in the header) the page shows up in the viewer and > later on prints rather dark and 'greyed out'. M$Windoze on the other hand > using the Canon software prints the page much brighter with no blurring or > greyed out background. > > I find the xsane rather complicated to set up, because I have no idea what > the different settings actually do. I was hoping that the default settings > would work at least as nice, if not nicer than the equivalent application > in Windoze, but that is not the case. > > Would any kind soul be able to help with Gamma, etc. settings for xsane to > work satisfactorily with this scanner. > -- > Regards, > Mick
There is a very active sane mailing list that should be able to offer some help on your scanner. http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
