<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Michael Mol <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> In the LINUX column, I discovered that<br>
> LINUX does not support Canon scanners.<br>
> I tried XSane and Scanlite. XSane will<br>
> produce a scan, but the colors are way<br>
> off, and I couldn't find a way to correct<br>
> them.<br>
<br>
</div>Have you tried building a color profile for the scanner? The lprof<br>
package looks like it might help.<br><font color="#888888"></font><br></blockquote><div>That's the kind of thing Canon and<br>others provide you when they supply<br>you with a CD for your windoz system.<br>I already have an HP unit working on my <br>
Ubuntu 9.04 setup, and probably a working <br>Canon LiDe unit.<br><br>See: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_color_management">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_color_management</a><br><br>and in particular:<br>
<h2><font size="2"><span class="mw-headline">Software for input and output profiling</span></font></h2><br>Looks to me like this is a big enough job<br>that it should only be done once, preferably<br>by the people doing the reverse engineering.<br>
It take equipment the typical putterer is not<br>likely to even have access to, much less own.<br><br> -- Bob<br><br></div></div>