# RE: Microtek ScanMaker630 broken?

David B. Rees (dbr@oto.dyn.ml.org)
Tue, 06 Oct 1998 16:08:08 -0700 (PDT)

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Bernd has released a .5 version of the Microtek2 backend. Check his ftpsite:

ftp://ftp.muc.de/people/bernds/mtek2

It may fix your problems.

-Dave

On 06-Oct-98 Matthias Hessler wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've just bought a Microtek ScanMaker 630 and tried to get it going
> with SANE under Linux.
> The distribution I use came with SANE 0.73, and had a couple of
> problems with backend Microtek2 - which had already been reported on
> this Mailinglist in June (seg.fault/premature crashes of scanimage,
> xscanimage left X hanging,...). Also, scanned lineart pictures were
> inverted (black came out as white and vice versa).
>
> According to the Bernd's suggestion given then I got the improved
> version of the backend: microtek2-0.3.tar.gz.
> With it, things seem to work fine, at least for lineart, halftone, and
> 8bit Gray.
>
> However, 24bit Color doesn't quite work properly. All my scans end up
> with basically only two colors: a neon green instead of black, and
> pink instead of white. Except for those colors, the picture pretty
> much looks like the 8bit Gray one.
> I wonder whether this is a problem of SANE/the Microtek2 backend, or
> more likely a defect of my scanner?
>
> I haven't tried the original software due to harddisk size
> restriction. In my eyes, these colors seem to be so typical, that
> an expert probably knows what's wrong with it right off hand.
> Since I'm new to scanning and this is my first scanner, it would be
> really nice if someone could give me a hint.

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