"m. allan noah" wrote: > Your mail gets thru just fine now.
I extra made a new mailbox and send these emails via web-based email. The construction of the mailing-list adres checker I call rather paranoid. It does not accept my sending email from a support account I have to use because of my systems installation. >Unfortunately, the gt68xx backend > is unmaintained, so unless you've got some C skills or can interest or > pay a developer, you might be out of luck. I wonder why no-one ever noticed the missing switch for the lamp. I am for sure not the first one to try scanning xray films. Aribert > allan > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:25 AM, <mustek at ariplex.com> wrote: >> Hi, I am new to the list. Why does my email not come through to the >> list? >> >> Do you know who I could ask concerning my scan problem with the Mustek >> A3 >> USB?? >> >> Thank you, >> >> Aribert Deckers >> >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> Hello, >> >> I have a problem with a Mustek A3 USB for scanning xray film: >> >> Using SANE for scanning the transparency lid for scanning xrays is >> sending >> light into the scanner, but the lamp in the scanner is not turned off >> whilst scanning, so the xray film is lit from 2 sides and the scans are >> very bad in quality. Even those parts of the xray film which have NO >> silver on it, do not become white, but have a shady gray. >> >> Trying to scan with Windows 98 or Windows 2000, using the original >> driver >> from Mustek, is a desaster as the scan area is automatically cut off, so >> that the scan does not cover the full surface of the glas area but only >> a >> stripe of, say, 10 cm or whatever the insane thing decides to take at >> the >> very moment. I found no way of shutting off this automatism. >> The scan result is a plain mess: varying of contrast and light will only >> change from a striped picture which looks like a real bad foto copy with >> a >> defect drum to a white background with sharp black spots on it. >> BUT: with Windows the lamp is shut off! >> >> The scanner itself is a shame: the scans are not sharp: if the paper in >> a >> reflective scan lifts of a mm from the glas, the picture is unsharp... >> The cause for this seems to be the technique used by Mustek. The more >> expensive scanners seem to have a better hardware. >> >> The problem with the sharpness is not related to the lighting. As the >> sharpness is not my main concern right now, I only need a way to turn >> off >> the lamp for scanning the xray films. The latest (and still very old) >> SANE >> linux driver I downloaded, but the result is the same as before. >> >> Please note: >> >> The scanner is a Mustek A3 USB, not a Mustek A3 USB 600, 1200 or >> whatever. >> >> >> What can be done with the SANE driver to work correctly? >> >> Thank you, >> >> Aribert Deckers >> >> >> >> -- >> sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org >> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel >> Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" >> to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org >> > > > > -- > "The truth is an offense, but not a sin" >
