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<h1>Re: Scanner question. Off Topic</h1>
<a href="mailto:becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de"><i>becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de</i></a><br>
<i>Wed, 3 Mar 1999 01:43:52 +0100 (MET)</i>
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Hi !<br>
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<i>&gt; Please forgive the intrusion, but since so many of you know your way</i><br>
<i>&gt; around scanners, I thought perhaps someone might know the answer, or</i><br>
<i>&gt; could point me to a source.</i><br>
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<i>&gt; Can scanners go out of focus?</i><br>
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Yes.<br>
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<i>&gt; I have a Microtek E3 and although text and copies come out great,</i><br>
<i>&gt; photographs scan like they are out of focus. I use OS/2, but tried it</i><br>
<i>&gt; with drivers in W3.1 and w95 as well and they always are out of focus.</i><br>
<i>&gt; I am pretty sure its a focus issue as zooming in shows it to be blurry</i><br>
<i>&gt; as can be, even in high res.</i><br>
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If the degree of blurriness is pretty insensitive to the dpi setting,<br>
this really sounds like a focus issue. How do you scan text ?<br>
In Black/white mode ? That is relatively insensitive to blurriness, as it<br>
gets converted to only black/white, thus leaving no room for blur.<br>
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Try scanning some B/W image, or rather text in different resolutions in<br>
true color mode to verify it. If it is a focus issue, you will probably<br>
see grey "ramps" on all sides of a black/white transition.<br>
The form of the ramps can as well give some indication of the kind of<br>
focussing problem.<br>
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<i>&gt; Just wondering if the scanner is now useless, or perhaps I can adjust</i><br>
<i>&gt; it?</i><br>
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Maybe. If you dare to disassemble it and try to find out how the optics was<br>
supposed to work, there should be ways to adjust it. Reading up in some <br>
physics book on how to adjust optics (there are some tricks like <br>
autocollimation) might help as well.<br>
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CU, Andy<br>
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