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Recently I purchased an eye-one photo lt. With that set there was a scanner target included, named Eye-one scan target 1.4. Since I don’t have a scanner I took a quick test at my office. Linux is now very user friendly. On my ubuntu laptop I just had to run the command “sudo apt-get install sane” and there was the scanning software installed. I plugged in an Epson 3200 photo and started xscanimage, which is part of sane package. I put the target on the scanner and scanned it as a 16 bit pnm file.

Recently Ben Goren og Graeme Gill has made those files that is required for the scanin process in argyllcms. Before doing this I measured my own target withe the eye-one pro and updated the q60 file with my own values. After this the process was straight from the argyll documentation. Like this:

scanin -v target.tif Eye-One_Scan_Target_1.4.cht my-target.q60 

profile -v -D”Epson 3200″ -qm -as scanner

I then scanned an eight year old picture of my beautifully wife and I at our wedding. I was very happy and surprised when I saw the results. It is very close to the original. This was just a quick test.

Raw scan

After icc profiling, no other corections.

Photographer, my father with his Canon T70

If someone would like to try this, and don’t have a target, Wolf Faust is a nice and cheap source. Argyllcms is freely available for linux, mac and windows. Another option is of course to buy the eye-one match scanner module for $200, but at least for me that is not very interesting, since I bought my eye-one just to get the hardware.

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