# Re: Lineart, xsane, and microtek backend

From: genkin@canada.com
Date: Tue Jan 18 2000 - 21:43:23 PST

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  bernd@aquila.muc.de (Bernd Schroeder) writes:

  > It is FW dependant. X6s with FW version of 1.40 or above do not
  > directly support the lineart mode. You will have to download a newer
  > version of the backend from ftp://ftp.muc.de/people/bernds/mtek2 .

  Bah! And I thought that a newer firmware is a good thing! So I was
  right that the X6 with FW 1.0 did scan in lineart (before it broke
  down).

  > The newer versions of the backend perform a grayscale scan if
  > lineart mode is not supported and map the colour values to 0 or 1
  > according to the threshold value.

  Thanks! I downloaded it. Will the quality/speed suffer because of such
  software-emulated lineart?

  Now if I could only make sane compile with the development Gimp. ;^)

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