primax: Primax Colorado D600 Support ?
Subject:
Re: Primax Colorado D600 Support ?
From:
Colin Muller ####@####.####
Date:
15 Jun 1999 12:36:32 -0000
Message-Id: <3766491D.8A5F0E10@durbanet.co.za>
Christian Ordig wrote:
> This sounds really good. Which version of Windows95 driver do you
> have? vpmd.vxd
> or vpmd2.vxd? If you have the first one your Scanner might not really
> be a
> D600, because all the D600 we´ve heard of use the second one.... I´m
> not really
> sure about this, but reporting it to us, would be really nice.
vpmxd.vmd, dated 17-01-98
The scanner lid has the label D600, but of course that may mean nothing
(marketing tactics ...)
> Well, open the scanner´s cover. Near the hinge you´ll find 2 skrews. > Simply
> remove them and you´ll be able to open the scanner. On the side where > all the
> connectors are, you´ll find a circuit board with 6 ICs on it (well in > the
> Colorado Direct there are 6, maybe you´ll find more or less...). Well > write
> down the things written on these ICs.
Okay, I should be able to do that later today.
A couple of other things which are probably predictable to people who
are familiar with the code:
- When I specify, say, 6 x 8 inches at 100dpi, the image area scanned is
(as I mentioned) really 3x4 inches, BUT the resolution is actually 200
dpi and I end up with a 600x800dpi image - I suppose that's another
side-effect of the changes I made to the constants.
- The scan seems to start a little bit before the clear glass area of
the flatbed - and I think it then also ends a bit before the end of the
specified area. Some sort of offset may be needed there (I haven't
looked in the code to see whether there is one I could have adjusted -
apologies if I'm telling you what you already know).
But really, I'm amazed at how well you guys got this working before
getting any support from Primax.
--
Colin Muller
http://www.durbanet.co.za
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