On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 11:07 +0100, Rene Rebe wrote: > On Tuesday 30 January 2007 01:36:16 PF wrote: > > Hi... > > > > If I scan a page of text at 200dpi in color mode (for example) with > > xsane, then zoom in to 400%, I can see jpeg-like artifacts around > > letters and other sharp lines. This isn't an artifact of the xsane > > zooming process, as saving the file as a TIFF and examining the > > individual pixels with another program will also show the artifacts. > > > > Is there an option to turn this off? > > Maybe your device sends JPEG data and the backend is transparently > decompressing it ? > > Which scanner are you using?
I'm using an HP PSC 2175 (printer/scanner). Converting to JPEG in order to squeeze more through the USB cable seems like overkill to me, but they may have done it. What do you think? -- PF <[email protected]>
