2009/7/15 Norman Silverstone <nor...@littletank.org>: > I would be grateful if I could have some help in trying to identify a > problem which has just recently appeared. When I send a scanned document > to the printer all the lines are no longer solid but are made up from > lots of what appear to be small 'dots' or 'back slashes'. It does not > appear to be a scanner fault as the same document scanned to the screen > is normal. The scanner is an old Canon Lide 20 and I use Ubuntu 9.04. > > This peculiar printing does not happen when documents are sent from > OpenOffice, for example. > > Norman >
It might be that you're scanning in colour and sending to a b&w printer. Either the printer or (more likely) the scanner is dithering the picture, and it's probably down to the settings you are using to scan the image. I saw this about 12 months ago using XSane and an HP scanner. Can't remember the setting I changed, I can have a look later if you get stuck. Cofion/Regards, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
