Hi, there's indeed a problem with the colors on the 1250 with the Plustek backend ;-( - we're working on that...
Gerhard On Sonntag, 2. März 2003 04:26, [email protected] wrote: > Hello Henning, > > In your previous message you said:- > > >Scanner - Epson Perfection 1250. Do you use the plustek or > >Epson Kowa backend? > > I am using the plustek backend. > > >What's the difference between you xsane and xscanimage installations? > >Did you install one of them from source and the other from RPM? > > If xscanimage is part of sane-frontends-1.0.10.tar.gz then they > were both installed from source. > > >Check the "/usr/local/lib" is in /etc/ld.so.conf. > > It was not. The reference was to "/usr/lib". I changed it to > "/usr/local/lib". I invoked xscanimage. I got the same error > message...xscanimage: error while loading shared libraries: > libsane.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or > directory. > > >What happens if you don't use XSane's automatic film setting > >but set up the colors manually? I.e. use the invert button and > >change the gamma/brightness for the colors so the image looks > >correctly? I'm trying to find out if it's a xsane or backend > >problem. > > I'm not sure I understood your instruction, but here is what I > did. I set it to negative (document source), Fuji negative > (source medium type) and prescanned. The prescan came out > pretty close to real life. I then manually adjusted the gamma > etc. to make the preview look as close as possible to real > life. When I final scanned I got a very different scan from the > preview (saturated, extreme reds etc.) but subsequent scans > were identical. This is a change. > > I then set it to transparency, full color range, reverse and > prescanned. The resulting pre-scan was too washed out to be > adjustable. This makes sense as transparencies are always > darker than negatives. > > I know nothing about scanning software but I find it significant > that if I prescan several times without touching any other > buttons etc. I get scans of different colors different contrast > etc. > > >> Would a screen shot of the scan results be of any help? > > > >Put it on a web page and send a link to sane-devel. > > Sorry, I don't have a parking spot for the images. > > Does any of this help? > > Ion
