-- Piernicola Oliva <ol...@df.unipi.it> > Hi, > another problem arised... > Now the images are ok, 12bits deep. > When the scanner is in standby for more than half an hour (I think) the > lamp turns off. > I made some other acquisitions after this (using the same command and the > same image) and I noticed a different histogram for the same image (say > the mean vaule was 4000 instead of 2500).This difference appears only > for the first image acquired after the turning off of the lamp. > So I waited for another turning off of the lamp and started again a set > of acquisition... and the computer freezed completely (also the > caps-lock light didn't work) and I had to reset the computer. > I made this only one time, so I don't know if it happens every time the > lamp turns off. > > Do I have to say in some way to the scanner to turn on the lamp?
It may be that you have to issue a bogus scan command the first time, discard the image and then keep going. If there is not a "lamp" command that can be grafted into the code I can hack a perl program that kicks the thing once then turns over scanning to sane. -- Steven Lembark 2930 W. Palmer Workhorse Computing Chicago, IL 60647 +1 800 762 1582