That is good to hear. The only reason I was trying such large dpi settings is because the xsane dialog offered 100,300,1200 & 2400. I was testing things out, so I tried the largest setting first. :-)
I will fiddle some more. Thanks again! Kirk --- Karl Heinz Kremer <k...@khk.net> wrote: > Yes, but not when you select a scanning area that's > too large. The "out > of memory" condition is in the scanner. > > Why are you scanning with 1200 dpi and more? This is > usually only > necessary for negatives or slides. For standard > scans of e.g. photos or > documents, it's usually not necessary to go beyond > 600dpi. For photos, > you can usually stop at 300 dpi. There just is not > more information in > a photo. > > Karl Heinz > > > On Dec 30, 2004, at 5:18 PM, Kirk Patton wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I recently purchased an Epson Rx500 for my wife > and > > managed to get it working quite well for printing > and > > partially for scanning. > > > > The issue I am having is that I get an out of > memory > > error from 'xsane' whenever I try to scan in color > at > > any resolution >= 1200dpi. I am able to scan bw > at > > the higher resolutions just fine. > > > > I am using sane-backends-1.0.15 on Fedora Core 3. > > > > Has anyone managed to get the epson backedn to > scan in > > color at the higher resolutions? > > > > Any help is appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > Kirk > > > > -- > > sane-devel mailing list: > sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org > > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe > your_password" > > to > sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org > >
