Martin- try running the following command: SANE_DEBUG_CANON_DR=30 scanimage --resolution=300 > 2580-1.pnm 2>2580-1.log
and send me the 2580-1.log allan On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Martin Butter <m.butter at gmx.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I (linux-newbie) want to use sane (libsane 1.0.23-0ubuntu1) under Ubuntu > 12.10 to scan with a Canon DR-2580C scanner. After installation sane > displayed "invalid argument" every time I tried to scan. Via try and error I > found out that I'm able to scan if I set resolution to 240dpi, 300dpi and > above gives the invalid-argument-error (scanner is able to scan up to > 600dpi). This happens with gscan2pdf als well als xsane. > > With gscan2pdf (libsane perl frontend) there is another issue: the scan > result is always the same, no matter on how I change brightness and contrast > settings. With xsane it seems to me that only the settings on the main > window have any effekt, but not the settings in standard options (sometimes > changes in standard options lead to completely black scans until new start > of xsane, though). > > Any hints what's going on (or going wrong) here? Any help would be greatly > appreciated! > > Martin > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
