[PLUG] Scanning comes out too light

Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtmann at gmail.com
Thu Oct 27 17:17:56 UTC 2011


On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Russell Senior
<russell at personaltelco.net>wrote:

> >>>>> "John" == John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> writes:
>
> Russell> I was helping someone recently deal with a HP flatbed
> Russell> scanner, scanning from Ubuntu.  The problem is, the scans
> Russell> come out too light, not saturated.  E.g., if you print out
> Russell> the image from the scan, there is a noticable and quite
> Russell> obvious washed outedness.
>
> Russell> I don't have the model number, but the fading is evident both
> Russell> from SimpleScan and through XSane.  Anybody see that before?
> Russell> Know how to fix?
>
> John> The contrast and saturation sliders don't resolve the problem?
>
> I am using "auto" for that stuff, which seems to work fine on my Epson
> scanner at home.
>
> I'll try twiddling the knobs today.
>
>
> --
> Russell Senior
>

Is there a calibration routine?  My HP slide/print scanner has such using a
special card half black and half white.

-Denis



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