Hello all, This will hopefully be the last time I bother the list. My Umax 2200 is now basically working, but the scans look pretty bad. They have what I could best describe as "banding" or "smearing". An example from a 300dpi scan is here (white areas on the left are the scanner lid and show the pattern rather well - looks like the output of a really bad inkjet printer):
http://home.manymonkeys.com/out.png (approx. 1MB png) I've poked around the archives and don't see much mention of general quality issues. Any ideas? There are plenty of lightly-documented options in the umax.conf file, and some fairly interesting ones that carry the following warnings (without further explanation): # BE CAREFUL WITH THIS OPTION, IT MAY DESTROY YOUR SCANNER WHEN SET FALSE Of course, I'm itching to try these. Also, is there a wiki-type thing somewhere where people can share information about their particular models? It seems that I stumbled all over things that just aren't documented on the site, but are common knowledge once you're on the list for a while (ie: don't use the OS driver, use libusb, scanner won't work w/o quality control disabled, etc.) Thanks, Charles
