I (the microtek(1) author) have essentially been in hibernation for the
last 7 months --- I haven't even used my own scanner; I haven't even
tried xsane!
This weekend I'll download fresh source code and get back into the
swing of things, i.e. try to remember the last few things I was
trying to do with the backend.
Off the very top of my head, look through the backend man page and
try the "no precal" option --- there is some kind of calibration
that some scanners do on color images, which ends up making them
miss the first 1/2 cm of the scanning tray; the backend by default
trys to calibrate once, and then shut it off for successive scans.
This is tricky, because the scanner hangs if it is not calibrated
at all. Maybe something is sending some kind of reset to the scanner,
so it loses the calibration info? It's been a while.
Like I said, it will take me a few days to get rev'ved up....
-matt marjanovic
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