[sane-devel] HP Scanjet 6300C Lineart/halftone stepping

[Peter Kirchgessner]

Hi Doug,

what do you mean with "stepped" ? Is the scan head moving 
forward/backward or are these steps in the resulting image ?

--Peter

Doug H wrote:

> Hi folks,
>   I just got around to testing my scanner with sane
> 1.0.8 and xsane 0.86 and I have repeated a problem I
> have had for a year or two and never bothered to try
> and fix.
>   Scanning in colour or greyscale works great, but if
> I try to scan in lineart or halftone the image gets
> stepped various amounts depending on the width of the
> selected area.
>   eg. Halftone at 600 dpi select area of < 3/4 in;
> image is fine, > 3/4in image is stepped
>       Lineart at 600 dpi select area of < 2 in; image
> is fine, > 2in image is stepped
> 
> My system is 1200MHz Athlon, K7S5A MB, 256MB
> 
> Mandrake Control Center says:
>   Vendor: Advanced System Products, Inc
>   Model: ABP940-U / ABP960-U
>   Kernel Module: advansys
>   Bus Type: PCI
> 
> Doug
> 
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