On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 07:28:40PM +0000, William Gallafent wrote: > > Scanning in 8-bit grey 300dpi, though, leads to some random > > 'stretching' of parts of the result, and the head sometimes doesn't > > get to the end of the scan area. > > So the scan head scans but doesn't move? That doesn't happen here with > that scanner. [snip] > Make sure that the scanner is placed on an absolute flat table. And > check if the case still looks correctly. I don't think it's a hardware > issue because it only happens in one mode but you never know.
I think it was an issue to do with the body of the scanner distorting under the weight of a heavy book. It's now working fine at this and other resolutions, using backends 1.0.12 and xsane 0.91, anyway :) Thanks for your ideas, and for your work on SANE in general! -- Bill Gallafent
