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<h1>Re: Microtek E3 won't scan, but II-G okay (SANE-OS/2)</h1>
<b>ithomae</b> (<a href="mailto:irv.thomae@succinct.com"><i>irv.thomae@succinct.com</i></a>)<br>
<i>Thu, 22 Jul 1999 17:00:45 -0400</i>
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Matto Marjanovic wrote:<br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; Hiya,</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; I (the microtek(1) author) have essentially been in hibernation for the</i><br>
<i>&gt;  last 7 months --- I haven't even used my own scanner; I haven't even</i><br>
<i>&gt;  tried xsane!</i><br>
<i>&gt; This weekend I'll download fresh source code and get back into the</i><br>
<i>&gt;  swing of things, i.e. try to remember the last few things I was</i><br>
<i>&gt;  trying to do with the backend.</i><br>
<i>&gt;</i><br>
  Hooray, and welcome back from hibernation!!!<br>
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<i>&gt; Off the very top of my head, look through the backend man page and</i><br>
<i>&gt;  try the "no precal" option --- there is some kind of calibration</i><br>
<i>&gt;  that some scanners do on color images, which ends up making them</i><br>
<i>&gt;  miss the first 1/2 cm of the scanning tray; the backend by default</i><br>
<i>&gt;  trys to calibrate once, and then shut it off for successive scans.</i><br>
<i>&gt;  This is tricky, because the scanner hangs if it is not calibrated</i><br>
<i>&gt;  at all.  Maybe something is sending some kind of reset to the scanner,</i><br>
<i>&gt;  so it loses the calibration info?  It's been a while.</i><br>
<i>&gt; Like I said, it will take me a few days to get rev'ved up....</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; -matt marjanovic</i><br>
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   I (a would-be user of SANE-OS2) believe I've tried inserting "#option<br>
no precal" into the "microtek.conf" file, but to no avail.  Even though<br>
the list of capabilities reported by the E3 does include<br>
precal-suppression, every "scanimage" run seems to start with a precal.<br>
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  Of course, many aspects of configuration seem to be different when one<br>
compares Linux-SANE and OS/2-SANE, (probably because the filesystems<br>
themselves are so different), so maybe Yuri can reassure us whether/how<br>
"#option ..." lines actually get processed?<br>
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  Irv Thomae<br>
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