[PLUG] Scanning comes out too light

Russell Senior russell at personaltelco.net
Thu Oct 27 22:55:47 UTC 2011


>>>>> "Russell" == Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net> writes:

>>>>> "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?

Russell> I am using "auto" for that stuff, which seems to work fine on
Russell> my Epson scanner at home.

Russell> I'll try twiddling the knobs today.

It is an HP G3010 scanner.  I twiddled knobs today, I was not getting
a faithful image.  The blacks came through with a blue-ish tint.
Googling implied that I needed an ICC or ICM file.  Google has been
less successful in finding me one.


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