peter@kirchgessner.net said:
> I dont know a scanner that can store a single frame completely. For an
> A4 scan at 600 dpi with 24bit you would need about 100MB of memory.
I know several, and they are grayscale and color. And we keep building
more because this pipelining really does help when you are talking about
large batches. Of course, we are not talking about desk-top flat-bed
scanners here:-)
And even on scanners that don't, it is possible that you want to start
the engine moving the next page before you have all of the current page,
because the mechanical latencies are such that you can get away with it.
In the case of many scanners, this is the *only* way to get the rated
speed. In these cases, it is up to the host driver to pull images out
fast enough that you don't get overrun.
So Marius asked a valid question and I'm curious myself how this issue
was dealt with by others. I suspect the answer is going to be something
like "a child process does the pipelining."
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