scanimage -l 0 -t 0 -x 215 -y 297 --format=tiff --resolution=150 --mode=color > output.tiff
works! :) but it's slow :O after I give out this command, 90sec...and nothing.. then in 26seconds it scans the document and the scanners head parks. Thank you! p.s.: are there any ways to speed this scanner up? 2012/5/2, Gerhard J?ger <gerhard at gjaeger.de>: > Hi, > > On Tuesday 01 May 2012 12:01:39 Gasko, Peter wrote: > [...] >> When I launch this command (no matter that I use it with a normal user >> or root, does the same): >> >> scanimage --format=tiff --resolution=150 --mode=color > a.tiff >> >> The scanner just waits for ~30 sec then starts actually scanning, but >> it stops after going about ~8cm's.. (so it's scanning just the ~1/3 >> part of an A/4 paper..) but the scanned part looks good. So the >> problem is that why doesn't this scanner scans a full A4 paper size? > > because A4 is not the default size that the driver uses, when > not specifying any size on the command line. > > man scanimage > will be your friend. > > [...] > > Cheers, > Gerhard >
