Rene,<br><br>Thanks for the quick reply. My printer is a Samsung ML-2550. I am printing to it via $:lpr ducument.tiff. I have tried to attach a sample document but it gets rejected by the list moderator. The documents are shipping documents that are often on thin pre printed forms like carbon copys but often are carbonless -- if that makes sense. Here a link that shows some:<br><br>http://www.ncrforms.com/home.php?xid=ab66d64884c5a7342c7641bec2ec6bb0<br><br><b><i>René Rebe <rene@exactcode.de></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On Wednesday 25 July 2007 15:10:08 Richard Reina wrote:<br>> Rene,<br>> <br>> Since dropping the "mode --Dithered" from my scanimage command the quality has improved somewhat. However, when I print the document it does not look anywhere near as good as it did when viewed with $:display document.tiff. Will
optimize2bw help this? Or do I have a printing quality issue?<br>> <br>> Thanks for the help thus far.<br><br>As with all technical systems the devil is in the details. And espeially with all<br>the different color scanning and also printing techniques - including different<br>materials.<br><br>The questions is what kind of techniques your printer does utilize, which<br>printer is it by the way?<br><br>If the document looks good no the screen and totally different when printed<br>out then you more likely have some problem in your print queue.<br><br>However with many print spoolers and rasterizers (including printer<br>firmware rasterizers) it also depends how the PostScript/PDf is generated<br>as there several different methods to embed image raster data in those<br>files and most spoolers and firmware handle them differently.<br><br>If you expect this free and open source scanner related list to help you<br>out you certainly need to drop some more details what
printer you use<br>and what you try to archive.<br><br>Optimize2bw is an automatic thresholding application doing some<br>sharpening and background color removal on the image and trying<br>to preserve as much detail as possible to create 1bit b/w image for<br>archival.<br><br>Yours,<br><br>> René Rebe <rene@exactcode.de> wrote: On Tuesday 24 July 2007 18:29:12 Richard Reina wrote:<br>> > I have an Avision AV210 that I use to scan in documents with the scanimage command:<br>> > <br>> > scanimage --mode Dithered --resolution 200 --format tiff > file_name<br>> > <br>> > Can anyone recommend syntax to darken the document it and make it more clear?<br>> <br>> All color tuning, including brightness, contrast and gamma also work in the<br>> Dithered mode (in the Avision backend). Btw. Why do you use dithered at all?<br>> <br>> If you want automatic thresholding you can scan in Gray (or Color) and use<br>> optimize2bw from
ExactImage:<br>> <br>> http://www.exactcode.de/site/open_source/exactimage/econvert/<br>> http://www.exactcode.de/site/open_source/exactimage/utilities/<br>> <br>> Yours,<br>> <br>> -- <br>> René Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin<br>> Geschäftsführer: Susanne Klaus, René Rebe<br>> Sitz: Berlin, Amtsgericht Charlottenburg HRB 105 123 B<br>> USt-IdNr.: DE251602478<br>> http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name<br>> <br><br><br><br>-- <br> René Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin<br> Geschäftsführer: Susanne Klaus, René Rebe<br> Sitz: Berlin, Amtsgericht Charlottenburg HRB 105 123 B<br> USt-IdNr.: DE251602478<br> http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name<br><br>-- <br>sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org<br>http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel<br>Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe
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