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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">I bought a HP Scanjet
G3110 a few months ago. The description of the SANE support for
this scanner is "basic" and that is accurate. I am using the
hp3900 driver as provided with OpenSuSE (sane-backends 1.0.25).<br>
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I can show you what I get. First, here is a photo I have taken
with my camera to establish a reference for comparison. <a
href="http://freemans.id.au/images/photo-reduced.JPG"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://freemans.id.au/images/photo-reduced.JPG">http://freemans.id.au/images/photo-reduced.JPG</a></a>
The white background depends on the level of illumination so it
will not allow a precise comparison with the scanned versions.<br>
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I have only used the back-end and not the application. When I scan
with XSane and a high contrast setting, using 200dpi resolution,
this is what I get. <a
href="http://freemans.id.au/images/sane-colour.jpg"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://freemans.id.au/images/sane-colour.jpg">http://freemans.id.au/images/sane-colour.jpg</a></a><br>
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If I increase the resolution to 1200dpi, again with high contrast,
this is what I get. <a
href="http://freemans.id.au/images/sane-colour-1200dpi.jpg"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://freemans.id.au/images/sane-colour-1200dpi.jpg">http://freemans.id.au/images/sane-colour-1200dpi.jpg</a></a>
Note the separation of blue and yellow.<br>
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I realize that HP don't give you much assistance in developing
your driver. Here is what I get using the supplied HP scanner
software under MS. <a
href="http://freemans.id.au/images/ms-colour.jpg"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://freemans.id.au/images/ms-colour.jpg">http://freemans.id.au/images/ms-colour.jpg</a></a><br>
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I have tried to scan transparencies (slides) using XSane and the
colour separation is very severe and the results useless.<br>
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