Gary Montalbine wrote: > I recently exchanged my Epson 3170 for and Epson 3490 because I was > unhappy with Iscan. I may have made a mistake. I am using Mandriva > 2006CE, sane-backends 1.0.17 and xsane 0.991. I am using the default > settings. > > When I try to make a copy to printer, the preview scan in color and gray > scale produces a gray tint where it should be white. This prints out. > In the lineart mode I get a satisfactory printout. However if I try to > crop at the bottom the top gets cut off on the printout. > > With nothing in the scanner I get the same graysih shading. > > I tried to copy a color picture in gimp. The preview look fair except > the lines were jagged at the major color changes. When I scanned it the > picture looked like it had a good case of grayish colored measles. > > Is this a defective scanner? > > Gary
I tried Iscan with the same results. I have returned the scanner. Gary
