plustek: Thread: Canon LiDe20

Hi,
 I bought a Canon LiDE 20 last week.
 I have installed the Suse 8.1 professional.

 I can help you in testing that device: do you need
any help on that scanner (like color tests or
something like that)?

bye Anto

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Hi,

thanks for the offer, but currently there's nothing to test so far.
I suggest, stay tuned here and I will post a message as soon
as I've finished work on the CanoScan devices...

Cheers
  Gerhard

On Donnerstag, 20. Februar 2003 14:00, Antonio Altana wrote:
> Hi,
>  I bought a Canon LiDE 20 last week.
>  I have installed the Suse 8.1 professional.
>
>  I can help you in testing that device: do you need
> any help on that scanner (like color tests or
> something like that)?
>
> bye Anto

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Hi all!

I have a Canon LIDE20 scanner. As it is said in the plustek home page,
the scanner is perfectly recognized by sane with plustek-sane-0.45-5 but
the picture quality is really ugly.

I just want to know what's the status of plustek-sane canon LIDE
support. Is there some improvement ?

By the way, thanks for all that good work on plustek-sane,
regards,


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Hello All,

I bought myself a Canon Lide 20 Scanner only to find it gives me pictures with 
the right 2/3 of the picture is covered in vertical lines.  The left 1/3 is 
fine.  The scanner works perfectly under win98, but that isn't what I bought 
it for.  Any suggestions?

 Regards
      Trevor Rhodes
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Hi Trevor,

you might can provide more info:
-sane-version
-debug-output
-libusb or scanner module

Ciao,
  Gerhard

On Montag, 3. November 2003 09:58, Trevor Rhodes wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I bought myself a Canon Lide 20 Scanner only to find it gives me pictures
> with the right 2/3 of the picture is covered in vertical lines.  The left
> 1/3 is fine.  The scanner works perfectly under win98, but that isn't what
> I bought it for.  Any suggestions?
>
>  Regards
>       Trevor Rhodes

Hello !

My Computer is a AMD Xp+1800 machine with SUSE 9.0, Kernel
2.4.21-99athlon. My scanner is a Canon Lide 20 USB scanner.Sane version
1.0.10-203 is correctly installed, the scanner automatycaly detected and
works with plustek backend. As frontend I use Xsane 0.91-99 or kooka.

The Problem is that I only can scan immages or documents in DinA4 size 
with a resolution under apr. 75 dpi, otherwise I will get a black bar on
the reight side of the Image. The higher the resolution gets the broader
the bar is. With a resolution higher than apr. 650 dpi the whole DinA4
scan-image is black.
I tried to use the viewscan software of Hamrick Software, the
Problem didn't occur. Please help me.
Thamk you!

With regards !

Hi,

update your SANE installation to 1.0.13...
--> www.sane-project.org

Ciao,
  Gerhard

On Samstag, 22. November 2003 19:20, bernd wrote:
> Hello !
>
> My Computer is a AMD Xp+1800 machine with SUSE 9.0, Kernel
> 2.4.21-99athlon. My scanner is a Canon Lide 20 USB scanner.Sane version
> 1.0.10-203 is correctly installed, the scanner automatycaly detected and
> works with plustek backend. As frontend I use Xsane 0.91-99 or kooka.
>
> The Problem is that I only can scan immages or documents in DinA4 size
> with a resolution under apr. 75 dpi, otherwise I will get a black bar on
> the reight side of the Image. The higher the resolution gets the broader
> the bar is. With a resolution higher than apr. 650 dpi the whole DinA4
> scan-image is black.
> I tried to use the viewscan software of Hamrick Software, the
> Problem didn't occur. Please help me.
> Thamk you!
>
> With regards !
>
>
>
>
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I've bought a canon lide 20 hoping for good linux support (as sane device page says)
but I've got a lot of problems.
Colors are not similar to the original, and I've seen that there's a way to increase
gamma to get a more useful image. How can I do that?

Is there any place where I can download a plustek.conf file that is suited perfectly for 
canon lide 20 scanner?

Another problem is that the scanner takes some seconds before scanning, with the carriage
going up and down (with a bit noise), and then it scans the image. Can I do something to avoid that?

I'm using the latest unstable deb package of the backend, it must be the 0.46-test1, how can I get 
surely the backend version?

Thanks in advance for your beautiful work.

> Hi!
> 
> It seems you have found the way(tm) of how to deal with this kind of
> canons scanners.
> 
> Here is the result of what I get when I use the new drivers
> 
> http://www.nn7.de/sane/linux-600dpi-orig.png
> http://www.nn7.de/sane/linux-600dpi-high-gamma.png
> 
> The first is just xsane scanned with no adjustments, the second with
> increased gamma.
> 
> Compared with the win-600dpi.jpg (see below) it is now very close and
> really useful quality.
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Hi,

On Saturday 20 December 2003 00:54, Alessandro Ronchi wrote:
> I've bought a canon lide 20 hoping for good linux support (as sane device
> page says) but I've got a lot of problems.

that's bad!

> Colors are not similar to the original, and I've seen that there's a way to
> increase gamma to get a more useful image. How can I do that?

Change the plustek.conf file:
option redGamma 1.0
option greenGamma 1.0
option blueGamma 1.0

to values > 1, probably 1.5 is a good value, I also saw 2.5...

> Is there any place where I can download a plustek.conf file that is suited
> perfectly for canon lide 20 scanner?

No.

>
> Another problem is that the scanner takes some seconds before scanning,
> with the carriage going up and down (with a bit noise), and then it scans
> the image. Can I do something to avoid that?

No, because this is needed for calbration. To avoid every time recalibration,
you can try the option:
option cacheCalData 1

> I'm using the latest unstable deb package of the backend, it must be the
> 0.46-test1, how can I get surely the backend version?

Hmmm, try SANE-1.0.13, this should work anyway.
To find out the version number, try:
export SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK=10 ; scanimage -L

In the first lines of the output you'll find the versions...

> Thanks in advance for your beautiful work.

You're welcome ;-)
I'll check that here on my 670 again....

Ciao,
  Gerhard

>
> > Hi!
> >
> > It seems you have found the way(tm) of how to deal with this kind of
> > canons scanners.
> >
> > Here is the result of what I get when I use the new drivers
> >
> > http://www.nn7.de/sane/linux-600dpi-orig.png
> > http://www.nn7.de/sane/linux-600dpi-high-gamma.png
> >
> > The first is just xsane scanned with no adjustments, the second with
> > increased gamma.
> >
> > Compared with the win-600dpi.jpg (see below) it is now very close and
> > really useful quality.
>
> -cut-

On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 12:54:12AM +0100, Alessandro Ronchi wrote:
> 
> Is there any place where I can download a plustek.conf file that is
> suited perfectly for canon lide 20 scanner?

Don't know about "perfectly" but I've put my configuration up here:

   http://home.covad.net/~jamincollins/plustek.conf

   
> I'm using the latest unstable deb package of the backend, it must be
> the 0.46-test1, how can I get surely the backend version?

I had to create my own package to get 0.46-test1, at the time the
latest in unstable was libsane_1.0.12-7.  Looks like the
libsane_1.0.13-2 package does have the 0.46 version in it though.

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