Minolta Scan Dual + Vuescan - Constant recalibration?

[pteppic]

I bought my Scan Dual approximately six months ago, and have been happily using

it since. I have intentions of upgrading to a newer model when slack-cash

allows, but since we've moved house my scanner has developed a problem.

 

I use Ubuntu 6.06 and Vuescan. Every time I attempt to scan or preview an

image, Vuescan requests that I remove the negative carrier for it to calibrate.

Now, this calibration procedure used to be requested on a relatively infrequent

basis (once per month?), but the scanner has now decided that it needs to

recalibrate every scan and preview.

 

What makes the scanner request a calibration, is it phsyical damage to the

scaneer or dirst and is it something repairable?

 

It's more of a irritation than a problem, since it will still scan negs, it just

takes twice as long.

 

Thanks.

[William Kahn]

Have you tried re-installing Vuescan?

[roger_smith4]

It shouldn't do this. I recommend recalibrating every session, but every scan is ridiculous.

 

Email support @ hamrick.com and see if Ed knows about it.

[mendel_leisk]

Have you tried Minolta Scan Utility lately. To see if it's behaving normally.

[pteppic]

I'll try dropping Ed a line. Unfortunately I am unable to use the Minolta utility since I'm not running Windows.

 

Thanks

[peter_langfelder]

There's a setting under the "Options" tab that has calibration period in it - check that it is set to something reasonable, like a few days (the default is 30 days, I believe, but you may have changed the setting by mistake).