Have you tried EPSON Kowa's IScan? You can download it from this link: http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/lsd_e.html
I don't know if this will produce better scans. I don't have this=20 scanner, so I don't have any first hand experience. What I know is that the IScan software produces pretty good scans (even from negatives) with other EPSON scanners. Karl Heinz On Friday, August 1, 2003, at 05:13 AM, Timo Pylv=E4n=E4inen wrote: > > Has anyone produced reasonable scans of negatives with > Epson Perfection 1260? I don't have windows, so I don't really > know what the best this scanner can do is, but xsane produces > unacceptable results. > > Some have mentioned the "stripes" that appear in the scans. > I too, get something like stripes on the scans. A long time > ago someone in the archives has suspected something like a > self calibration failure. I doubt this is the case. The > stripes seem to be as a result of noise. > > Sufficiently light slides scan okay. Negatives and darker slides, > which require software brightening, suffer from the noise. I suspect > the noise appears a bit striped because some parts of the sensor are > more susceptible. This theory is backed up by expirent where, instead > of the film adapter unit, I used a brighter lamp to illuminate the=20 > slide. > This seems to lead to reduced noise and apparently no stripes. > > Somehow I suspect that windows software will not produce this noise. > Could it be possible that the TPU has a brigthness settings which > (x)sane doesn't set properly? Or that the scanner sensor has some > sensitivity setting which is not set properly? > > -Timo > > _______________________________________________ > Sane-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel
