# UMax 1220S

Jim Ford (jf001@watford.net)
Sat, 20 Jun 1998 17:37:51 +0100

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This is to report that the Umax Astra 1220S - the latest in the 1200
series - appears to work fine with SANE, with no nasty noises from the
mechanism! The resolution on xscanimage only goes up to 600dpi though
(but see below)

The main problems I'm having are now related to my Epson ST600 printer.
For a start I can't get the pnmtops - or any other of the netpbm tools
to work - they all want the libtiff.so.1 library, which I havn't been
able to locate. The other problem is that whilst the screen image is
true to the original, the printed image is not. I'm using the
stc600p.upp Alladin GS 5.10 filter (which works much better than the
st600 filter - which _drenches_ the paper with ink!)

Whilst on the subject of scanning, the issues of scanner verses printer
resolution appear to be more complicated than meets the eye. Are there
any rules of thumb or is there a book `How to get the best from your
Scanner' available?

Why does my scanner provide resolutions up to 9600 dpi when the default
resolution for photos seems to be 100 and OCR 300? What use is 9600 -
scanning postage stamps?

Regards: Jim Ford

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