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I'd be very grateful if someone could advise if any of these HP scanners are what i'd call manual scan. I've had an HP PSC500 which allows me to darken or lighten the scan. I wanted to replace this PSC500 as she's large and costs 2 pairs of ink cartridges per year.
I bought a Canon Canoscan LIDE 90 last year to find that it only did 'auto scan' and for some things i tested it on it wasn't that good. There was a fault with it so i could return it thankfully.
Looking at the specs i can't see if any are a 'manual scan' - be grateful for help. It may be they are all auto scan these days, which is fine for photos but not so good for scanning b/w drawings i've found.
james
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 11:55:56AM +0000, James Freer wrote:
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I'd be very grateful if someone could advise if any of these HP scanners are what i'd call manual scan. I've had an HP PSC500 which allows me to darken or lighten the scan. I wanted to replace this PSC500 as she's large and costs 2 pairs of ink cartridges per year.
I bought a Canon Canoscan LIDE 90 last year to find that it only did 'auto scan' and for some things i tested it on it wasn't that good. There was a fault with it so i could return it thankfully.
Looking at the specs i can't see if any are a 'manual scan' - be grateful for help. It may be they are all auto scan these days, which is fine for photos but not so good for scanning b/w drawings i've found.
I'd have thought it was the software that determines whether you can adjust the scanning parameters.
Though looking at the Vuescan information at www.hamrick.com maybe there is a fly in the ointment, to use Vuescan with the LIDE 90 you need the Canon ScanGear software to be installed and maybe that affects how much control you have (and you can't do in Linux).
My Epson V700 is completely controllable but I suspect may be rather overkill for what you're after.
An exploration of Vuescan (www.hamrick.com) may enlighten you a bit and an E-Mail to Ed Hamrick might elicit some information.
What OS are you running under - I assume Linux and SANE but it would be good to be sure.
Hi
On 21/01/2008, James Freer jessejazza@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Looking at the specs i can't see if any are a 'manual scan' - be grateful for help. It may be they are all auto scan these days, which is fine for photos but not so good for scanning b/w drawings i've found.
It might help if you could please explain what the difference is between auto and manual scan. Also if you could specify how you did the scanning before.
I have a HP PSC-2175, and I think that has an scan feature where you just press a button on the printer and it scans and transfers the image to the computer (heh, never tried this though). Is this your idea of autoscan?
I can also use xsane to scan from the computer by pressing only a button. I think I can tweak the brightness of the scan, but have not tried. Is this what you consider manual scan?
Maybe I'm just missing an important distinction here. Depending on your definition of the above, you could look at the sane website and see if has any information about particular scanners there.
Srdjan
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, James Freer wrote:
I've had an HP PSC500 which allows me to darken or lighten the scan.
Dear James,
Sorry, I have a question, not an answer. What config are you using to make the PSC 500 work on Linux? I'm unable to make it work, as described at http://lists.alug.org.uk/pipermail/main/2006-February/023953.html.
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 11:55:56AM +0000, James Freer wrote:
http://www.ebuyer.com/search/?strSearch=&bolShowAll=true&intStoreID=...
I'd be very grateful if someone could advise if any of these HP scanners are what i'd call manual scan. I've had an HP PSC500 which allows me to darken or lighten the scan. I wanted to replace this PSC500 as she's large and costs 2 pairs of ink cartridges per year.
I bought a Canon Canoscan LIDE 90 last year to find that it only did 'auto scan' and for some things i tested it on it wasn't that good. There was a fault with it so i could return it thankfully.
Looking at the specs i can't see if any are a 'manual scan' - be grateful for help. It may be they are all auto scan these days, which is fine for photos but not so good for scanning b/w drawings i've found.
I'd have thought it was the software that determines whether you can adjust the scanning parameters.
Though looking at the Vuescan information at www.hamrick.com maybe there is a fly in the ointment, to use Vuescan with the LIDE 90 you need the Canon ScanGear software to be installed and maybe that affects how much control you have (and you can't do in Linux).
My Epson V700 is completely controllable but I suspect may be rather overkill for what you're after.
An exploration of Vuescan (www.hamrick.com) may enlighten you a bit and an E-Mail to Ed Hamrick might elicit some information.
What OS are you running under - I assume Linux and SANE but it would be good to be sure.
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