On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Ian van der Neut <ivdneut at gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Ian van der Neut <ivdneut at gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:14 PM, JKD <jkdsoft at gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Friday 13 March 2009 22:39:33 Ian van der Neut wrote: >>>> Hello all, >>>> >>>> I searched the archives and googled, but I can't find anything that >>>> resembles my problem. The problem is illustrated by the images: >>>> >>>> http://apache.dataloss.nl/~ian/img.png which was scanned with: >>>> $ scanimage --mode Gray > img.pnm (the pnm images are also under the same >>>> url). This one looks as expected, however, there's color on the paper, that >>>> I'd like to see, so I scanned with: >>>> >>>> scanimage --mode Color > imgcolor.pnm This results in: >>>> http://apache.dataloss.nl/~ian/imgcolor.png As you can see, the bottom >>>> part is displayed five times, then a part just above the middle, then >>>> a part just above that. Also, the CMYK colors are positioned offset >>>> from eachother, except the bottom part for the first time. >>>> >>>> Does anyone give me some pointers as to how to fix this, or could this >>>> be a problem with the scanner itself? I'm not very experienced with >>>> scanning. >>> >>> I've got a HP4370 and I can not reproduce your problem but try latest code >>> located at sourceforge's SVN server: >>> >>> https://sourceforge.net/scm/?type=svn&group_id=150599 >>> >>> Latest version implements native calibration in reflective scans. More info >>> can be found at: >>> >>> https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=3023691&forum_id=503228 >> >> I compiled the code, but it's still messed up, but differently: >> http://apache.dataloss.nl/~ian/imgcolor2.png (the pnm is also there) >> >> I'll check with a windows box tomorrow or so to make sure it's not the >> scanner itself that is broken. Thank you so far. > > Just confirmed with a windows laptop that the scanner works fine, so > it's either something in the Linux box (Ubuntu 8.04, hardy heron) > hardware (usb) or software (sane)... other usb devices (phone, camera, > etc) work ok. > > Thank you in advance for any pointers, suggestions etc...
Well, hooked it up to the Linux box again and now it works like a charm. Even survives a reboot and a power cycle... wth!?? oh well.... sorry to bother y'all :) Ian.
