In a recent message David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In message <aa667c484f.Dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dave Barnett > <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes >>As far as I was concerned DplngScan and TWAIN were joined at the hip. > > No you can use both of them without the other. I have used DpScan stand-alone to tweak images from a number of sources, very useful. My version of !TWAIN does not load to the iconbar, so I don't know its version or stand-alone capability. > [...] > >>The best result is obtained using 100dpi Grey with Superscale, dither >>makes no difference. This is very acceptable. Mottling is no longer >>apparent (as scanned). > > Dan made a good point. Moire patterning can also be due to the monitor > screen - the magnify tool in DPscan has a button "rational" which gets > rid of such effects by displaying one image pixel per screen pixel. > That has no effect. Increasing dpi above 100 increases problem. I am happy with results for this image. OT ? One thing that I have found for DPscan is that increasing the 'Next' bar on the Task display reduces the incidence of 'Type 5' errors. -- Dave Keep GMT all year