On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 11:27:15PM -0700, Bill Jehle wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 11:50:41PM -0400, Anderson Lizardo wrote: > > > > Bill Jehle wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 04:02:32PM -0700, Bill Jehle wrote: > > > > > >>I have an HP 6200C scsi when it runs it leaves a brown skidmark down > > >>the left side of the image (see attached brown-line.png). I thought it > > >>was a bad lamp but it runs OK > > >>with the HP app on Win2k. > > > > Hi, I'm the maintainer of the geniusvp2 backend. > > > > Hm... I have this very same problem with my backend. I thought at first > > I've damaged the sensors while cleaning the mirror on the carriage, > > because I was almost sure I've never seem that dark line before that... > > > > The interesting here is that we have totally different scanners (mine is > > a Genius ColorPage-Vivid Pro II) and backends, but the same problem. The > > difference is that on my case the "dark line" is black (not brown). And > > in my case, scanning on Windows also shows that line, although it's > > almost invisible probably because of gamma correction which my backend > > does not support yet. > > > > My guess would be badly calibrated ADC... > > > > - -- > > Anderson Lizardo > > thanks Anderson, I was hoping it was a software problem but alas > after 5 years I guess it will need to be put out to pasture. > > -- > http://billjehle.com
I forgot to mention, mine does show up too in the windows scan but faintly. It was intermittent for a while but now is permanent. I thought it coincided with a backend upgrade but apparently that's not the case.
