Hi,
I was hoping someone could help me out a bit. I have a Microtek2 X6EL
scanner that I bought a couple months ago. When I use it with the SANE
drivers in Linux to scan an image, the image appears to remain at 72dpi
even if I scan an image in at 300dpi (set on XSane). The image size
does get bigger on the screen. I copied the image into my windows
partition and used photoshop to print out the image ( I was doing some
comparisons between the windows drivers and Linux drivers for both my
printer and scanner). Photoshop says the printing resolution is 72dpi
and ImageMagick says that the resolution is 72dpi.
I have used xscanimage and xsane as standalone programs to scan and
save the image in a particular format (ie jpeg). I have also used them
as plugins to GIMP to scan the image then save them in a particular
format. Either way will yield the same results. I have the feeling
that this resolution issue is due to SANE and/or the microtek2 backend
and how the image data is presented. I would really appreciate some
insight to this. I am not really very knowledgable when it comes to
this type of stuff, and would like some help understanding it. Maybe I
am misunderstanding something. I really enjoy using Linux to do my
daily activities and prefer not to boot into Win98 just to scan or print
an image. I do realize that the microtek2 backend is still considered
alpha. Please help me with any info possible. You may email me
personally to avoid wasting bandwidth on this one if you so choose.
TIA,
Brandon Kolbe
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