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Re: Flatbed Scanner



 Laura Conrad wrote: 
>>>>>> "Mike" == Mike  <[hidden email]> writes: 
> 
>     Mike> My home setup has 4 gigs of ram and the office one has only 
>     Mike> 1 gig of ram. I have scanned several images, documents, 
>     Mike> etc... at varying dpi including 600 dpi. 
> 
> Have you really done a full page at 600 dpi?  On the one gig machine? 
> iscan keeps telling me I need to use a lower resolution or a smaller 
> area.  It seems to be being very polite about not using my swap space, 
> but I made that swap partition for a reason.  And doing two scans for 
> every page might be even slower than letting xsane use all my swap 
> space. 
> 
> I'm really thinking it might make sense to return this scanner and try 
> something else. 
> 


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