Hi

I've seen a lot of people describing this problem, but nobody seem to have found the solution.:

I have a scanner (CanoScan FB630U), and it worked out of the box on my FC5. But all images I scan turn red. It seems like a layer of red transparent film over the image. I have tried to calibrate the scanner but it does not help. I can play with the settings and make it look almost okay, but I really don't want to waist a lot of time correcting images when I scan.

What really puzzles me, is that this red color also appears when scanning a plain and simple drawing in black and white.

I have used this scanner with no problems on Windows, and therefore I know the scanner works.

Any ideas on how to solve this, is very much appreciated.

Anyone, please?

No clue. But the sane backend provides ample debug tools. There is an environment vaiable for your backend which you can set to a certain value and that let you look at the calibration while it is being performed.

I don't remember all the details, you'll have to check the man pages for sane and the sane backend for your scanner. During debugging it is probably best to use scanImage from the command line instead of Xsane.

And make sure the scanner *still* works in Windows. Scanners happen to break from one day to the other.

jlinkels