[sane-devel] Epson RX500 1200+ dpi "Out of memory"

[Kirk Patton]

That is good to hear.

The only reason I was trying such large dpi settings
is
because the xsane dialog offered 100,300,1200 & 2400. 
I was testing things out, so I tried the largest
setting first. :-)

I will fiddle some more.

Thanks again!
Kirk

--- Karl Heinz Kremer <khk@khk.net> wrote:

> Yes, but not when you select a scanning area that's
> too large. The "out 
> of memory" condition is in the scanner.
> 
> Why are you scanning with 1200 dpi and more? This is
> usually only 
> necessary for negatives or slides. For standard
> scans of e.g. photos or 
> documents, it's usually not necessary to go beyond
> 600dpi. For photos, 
> you can usually stop at 300 dpi. There just is not
> more information in 
> a photo.
> 
> Karl Heinz
> 
> 
> On Dec 30, 2004, at 5:18 PM, Kirk Patton wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I recently purchased an Epson Rx500 for my wife
> and
> > managed to get it working quite well for printing
> and
> > partially for scanning.
> >
> > The issue I am having is that I get an out of
> memory
> > error from 'xsane' whenever I try to scan in color
> at
> > any resolution >= 1200dpi.  I am able to scan bw
> at
> > the higher resolutions just fine.
> >
> > I am using sane-backends-1.0.15 on Fedora Core 3.
> >
> > Has anyone managed to get the epson backedn to
> scan in
> > color at the higher resolutions?
> >
> > Any help is appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kirk
> >
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