Re: [gentoo-user] kooka copy fails to print, etc.

[Ernie Schroder]

On Sunday 29 January 2006 18:26, a tiny voice compelled Mick to write:
> Hi All,
>
> I have been trying to use a CanoScan N650U scanner to copy a printed A4
> sheet of corporate headed paper with some black text (a typical letter,
> nothing too complicated in terms of image quality).
>
> I used xsane and kooka.  Xsane prints it directly, but the image is
> misaligned on the page (the header logo is chopped in half).  It's as if
> the page has been zoomed into.  I have selected Full Size so I don't know
> why this happens.  Can it be adjusted - how?
>
> Kooka on the other hand scales and centers the image nicely, no manual
> intervention is required.  However, it does not print directly but always
> saves the scanned image as a file.  If I select it and press print an error
> comes up saying that it won't print because the file is 0 bytes in
> size.  :-@
>
> On top of all this, choosing to copy it in colour (there's a bit of colour
> in the company logo in the header) the page shows up in the viewer and
> later on prints rather dark and 'greyed out'.  M$Windoze on the other hand
> using the Canon software prints the page much brighter with no blurring or
> greyed out background.
>
> I find the xsane rather complicated to set up, because I have no idea what
> the different settings actually do.  I was hoping that the default settings
> would work at least as nice, if not nicer than the equivalent application
> in Windoze, but that is not the case.
>
> Would any kind soul be able to help with Gamma, etc. settings for xsane to
> work satisfactorily with this scanner.
> --
> Regards,
> Mick

There is a very active sane mailing list that should be able to offer some 
help on your scanner.
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel
-- 
Regards, Ernie
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