document scannen in Affinity Photo2 and the Beta2.

[Jurgen van Leyen]

 

I use a new brother scan & printer MFC-L2730DW connected in a network UTP (mostly Mac (5) and 1 Pc Windows 10 pro)

1 Mac (Mac mini 2012 macOS High Sierra ) is also connected to the printer with USB..

brother has told me on the phone that the specific scan/printer MFC-L2730DW can only hardware scan up to 600dpi and software up to 1200dpi..

Im a beta tester of Affinity Photo2 using beta2. 

below are some video's of different scans. 

3. scan Affinity photo2 600dpi

4. scan - Affinity Photo2 beta2 600dpi

5. scan - brother iPrint&Scan 1200dpi  (preferred by Brother)

these scans are done on an iMac 24 - inch M1 2021 

the scans are totally f*cked up...... (except the one done with iPrint&Scan)

(come on programmers, do something about this?)

see for yourself. let me know what you think?

[NotMyFault]

8 minutes ago, Jurgen van Leyen said:

the scans are totally f*cked up...... (except the one done with iPrint&Scan)

(come on programmers, do something about this?)

see for yourself. let me know what you think?

Your language is not up to the standards of this forum.

you have one scan option working pretty well. You can’t provide screen recordings using OS tools, instead using shaky smartphone camera. I can’t spot any real problem.

sorry for giving honest answer to your question.

[Affinity-Inspiration]

Can’t see the problems you are talking about because the screen recordings are so bad.

So instead of just swearing, try to describe clearly what the problems are that you are experiencing.. 

[MikeTO]

Here are instructions from Apple for recording your screen on macOS.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102618

[Alfred]

20 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

Here are instructions from Apple for recording your screen on macOS.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102618

And here’s a generic version of that link which may take you to a different version of the page, depending on the default language for your locale:

https://support.apple.com/102618

[debraspicher]

11 hours ago, Jurgen van Leyen said:

brother has told me on the phone that the specific scan/printer MFC-L2730DW can only hardware scan up to 600dpi and software up to 1200dpi..

We don't have the "Acquire Image" option in Windows for Affinity, but I have a Brother printer and this sounds right.

Using something like a WIA driver (Windows image acquisition) will tend to only scan up to the optical resolution (limited by hardware). Mac probably has the same caveat. This is the OS utility for accessing the driver of the scanner and is what non-Brother software would likely use to get scanner functionality directly in their programs. Photoshop also used the WIA driver. My own Brother printer has the same limitation unless I use the printer's native UI which gives me resolutions far higher than 1200 dpi (and probably looks horrific..)

These work differently than Brother's own printer/UI which takes the image once it is scanned and does its own magic. Technically, you could do the same in Affinity by scanning in at the lower resolution and blowing it up higher... or just use the Brother software if you prefer the result.

If you were on Windows, then I would suggest to use something third party like NAPS2 that provide straightforward access to your scanner, but give more options such as using the printer's native UI to get access to the extra functionality without all bloat of the manufacturer software. There is a Mac version supposedly, but I have not tried it obviously... I tend to right click on the scan, hit copy and open it from the clipboard when I'm done. It's really not that much more work, but you'll have to play around with the settings to find out what gets the best results from your printer's driver...

Since your printer is also Brother, this is the settings for me that would work to get to the better functionality. For what it's worth, I don't really use my Brother for scanning color pieces as I only use it to print mockups, tabloid and the rare Fax... I have a portable flatbed that scans at a somewhat better resolution, so I typically use that..:

WIA limits the DPI to 300 for this setup...

[Jurgen van Leyen]

thanks for the answer. I downloaded NAPS2. and see how this works.  thanks

[Jurgen van Leyen]

11 hours ago, NotMyFault said:

Your language is not up to the standards of this forum.

you have one scan option working pretty well. You can’t provide screen recordings using OS tools, instead using shaky smartphone camera. I can’t spot any real problem.

sorry for giving honest answer to your question.

not much of help. 

[Jurgen van Leyen]

11 hours ago, Affinity-Inspiration said:

Can’t see the problems you are talking about because the screen recordings are so bad.

So instead of just swearing, try to describe clearly what the problems are that you are experiencing.. 

not much of help..

[Jurgen van Leyen]

9 hours ago, MikeTO said:

Here are instructions from Apple for recording your screen on macOS.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102618

not much of help.    

[Jurgen van Leyen]

9 hours ago, Alfred said:

And here’s a generic version of that link which may take you to a different version of the page, depending on the default language for your locale:

https://support.apple.com/102618

not much of help...

[Jurgen van Leyen]

2 hours ago, debraspicher said:

We don't have the "Acquire Image" option in Windows for Affinity, but I have a Brother printer and this sounds right.

Using something like a WIA driver (Windows image acquisition) will tend to only scan up to the optical resolution (limited by hardware). Mac probably has the same caveat. This is the OS utility for accessing the driver of the scanner and is what non-Brother software would likely use to get scanner functionality directly in their programs. Photoshop also used the WIA driver. My own Brother printer has the same limitation unless I use the printer's native UI which gives me resolutions far higher than 1200 dpi (and probably looks horrific..)

These work differently than Brother's own printer/UI which takes the image once it is scanned and does its own magic. Technically, you could do the same in Affinity by scanning in at the lower resolution and blowing it up higher... or just use the Brother software if you prefer the result.

If you were on Windows, then I would suggest to use something third party like NAPS2 that provide straightforward access to your scanner, but give more options such as using the printer's native UI to get access to the extra functionality without all bloat of the manufacturer software. There is a Mac version supposedly, but I have not tried it obviously... I tend to right click on the scan, hit copy and open it from the clipboard when I'm done. It's really not that much more work, but you'll have to play around with the settings to find out what gets the best results from your printer's driver...

Since your printer is also Brother, this is the settings for me that would work to get to the better functionality. For what it's worth, I don't really use my Brother for scanning color pieces as I only use it to print mockups, tabloid and the rare Fax... I have a portable flatbed that scans at a somewhat better resolution, so I typically use that..:

WIA limits the DPI to 300 for this setup...

thanks

 

 

[debraspicher]

11 hours ago, Jurgen van Leyen said:

thanks

 

 

Good to know how it works on Mac. Thanks ❤️

[EmT]

Hi @Jurgen van Leyen

Please could you not make a duplicate post about the same issue. If you have any additional updates or comments to make they can be added to your original post where @stokerg has replied to you.