[sane-devel] [CanoScan5000f] Analyse of logs

Thibault North tnorth@bluewin.ch
Thu, 08 Jul 2004 19:11:40 +0200


David Stevenson wrote:

> The scanner may scan more than asked for, and the front end will use 
> what it needs. 39x39 may scan as 40x40 or 64x64 or ..... It is also 
> possible that 100dpi scans as 150dpi. OK not that likely but be 
> prepared for it.
> A colour scan is normally 24bits - 3 bytes per pixel. But again other 
> values are possible.

Ok or it may scan a whole line and then cut the requested area...
Apparently, that scanner is able to do 48bits scans too. This should not 
change anything but the amount of data, isn't it ?
Thibault