Silverfast descreening under Windows XP
PostPosted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 4:09 pm
I have just replaced my old Epson Perfection 3200 scanner with an Epson Perfection V750 Pro (my Nikon 2000 film scanner bit the dust so I decided to go this route as dedicated film scanners seem to be going the way of the dodo).
In the past I used a version of Silverfast that I purchased for the Epson 3200 and was well satisfied. The Epson Perfection V750 Pro came with a full version of Silverfast 6 and I had no trouble with either the scanner or the software installation. My computer is based on an Intel board - Pentium 4 with a 3.6 MHz processor - and there is 1 MB of RAM installed and I run Windows XP Pro.
Everything went well until I scanned a color image using the descreening option (the size of the test file was about 10 MB). The scan itself was rapid but I sat around for fully five minutes before the descreening was complete (if I had a mirror I could see my beard grow). I fiddled a bit with the descreening options and then went to the Silverfast site and downloaded the latest version (6.4.4r2). I installed the upgrade but it did not solve the problem.
I went to the Epson software that came with the V750 and did a scan using its descreening option. It produced a very nice scan in a short period of time.
So, why is the scan unbearably slow with the Silverfast but not so with the Epson software? Is there some setting in the Silverfast 6 software that I am overlooking? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Al
In the past I used a version of Silverfast that I purchased for the Epson 3200 and was well satisfied. The Epson Perfection V750 Pro came with a full version of Silverfast 6 and I had no trouble with either the scanner or the software installation. My computer is based on an Intel board - Pentium 4 with a 3.6 MHz processor - and there is 1 MB of RAM installed and I run Windows XP Pro.
Everything went well until I scanned a color image using the descreening option (the size of the test file was about 10 MB). The scan itself was rapid but I sat around for fully five minutes before the descreening was complete (if I had a mirror I could see my beard grow). I fiddled a bit with the descreening options and then went to the Silverfast site and downloaded the latest version (6.4.4r2). I installed the upgrade but it did not solve the problem.
I went to the Epson software that came with the V750 and did a scan using its descreening option. It produced a very nice scan in a short period of time.
So, why is the scan unbearably slow with the Silverfast but not so with the Epson software? Is there some setting in the Silverfast 6 software that I am overlooking? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Al