[sane-devel] Scanned colours?

[Rene Rebe]

Hi.

If you would have supplied your exact scanner model and SANE version
we might provide more exact answers ... :-(

If you use a HP 5370or 74xx this was a known issue until
recently. Apply the latest patch at:

SANE/Avision:

  - Homepage:
    http://drocklinux.dyndns.org/rene/avision/

  - Sourcecode:
    http://www.rocklinux.org/people/rene/sane/src/

  - Patches:
    http://www.rocklinux.org/people/rene/sane/patches/

  - Incremental patches:
    http://www.rocklinux.org/people/rene/sane/patches/incremental/

  - Source tarball:
    http://www.rocklinux.org/people/rene/sane/tarballs/

  - Precompiled binary:
    http://www.rocklinux.org/people/rene/sane/patches/bin

  - Possible mirror sites:
    http://www.rocklinux.de/people/rene/sane/
    http://www2.rocklinux.org/people/rene/sane/

On: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 12:45:51 +1000,
    Brad <saneuser at sportingwheelies.org.au> wrote:
> I have an HP SCSI scanner connected to a Red Hat 8.0 box and have managed to 
> get XSane working OK. The scanner is supported by Xsane by default and all 
> functions seem to work fine.
> 
> However, I have just scanned a photograph of Santa and his red suit came out 
> aqua in colour and most of the other colours are wrong too.
> 
> I have then tried to scan a magazine cover that had a basically grey 
> background with an olympic gold medal on it and the grey background is a 
> strange shade of greay and the gold medal is MISSING ALTOGETHER!
> 
> Can anyone shed any light on this? (Please excuse the pun!)

- René

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