ScanMate drum scanner DIY maintenance, troubleshooting, mods

Interesting suggestion! What LED would I need? The Space in the light tube is not really big. Should be not more than 6mm diameter. And how big is the difference in colour? Can an LED give me more Power/Light than the original halogen solution?

Best regards, Sebastian
 
Try Cree XML. I've tried CXA array but flux was weaker than halogen, failed white cal, green cast but can be removed in post. No visible color shifts.
 
When I turned on SCSI in diagnostic program then scanner is no longer recognized by computer. When I removed rj45 cable then is recognized again. I think if you have problem with communication then turn on SCSI in diagnostic program first.
 
jzagaja said:
Can't align drum in SM5000 - middle screw has no effect.
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I've done this. If I remember correctly one screw was to fix it one was to adjust it. You first need to slacken one then adjust, and re-tighten after your're done. See the Factory 11000 manual on this.

PS: you need to check critical focus on both-sides of the drum. If you have only one ScanView focus target transparancy it on one end, align drum (DO NOT change focus or use autofocus!) then put it on the other side and check if it hasn't changed. I found it little changes the setting in the begging of the drum as well, so you may need to perform couple of adjustments to "even-out" the drum with the aligning procedure.
 
Fixing screw is removed and adjusting screw is rotated from loose position to maximum and there is always difference between two ends. I use one target torn to two pieces. In SM1000 no problem.
 
I developed Super8 film (Fomapan R) as negative and found SM is unable to find focus. This is because of Anti Halation layer. Can be easily overcomed by putting slide (e.g. IT8) and set focus. I remember similar problem with Ektar. I'm curious how optical viewfinder works in Dainippon 8060 or similar - quicker, better?
 
manual/service manual for Scanmate 5000

manual/service manual for Scanmate 5000

Hello

Just got a Scanmate 5000.

I'm looking for the manual, or service manual. Something to navigate in the internal setups of this machine.

I assume i can set the drum starting point from there? Using the terminal cable.

As when i got my scanner, the linkage of the motor that moves the drum sideways & the spindle was broken. I fixed it, but seems i need to set the starting point for it.. as it now scans slightly over the drum on preview.

I also can confirm, that you can indeed run this scanner on 64bit Win7 & ColorQuartet 5.2.2. So no need for old operating systems. Just needed a firmware update, which i dug out from a ColorQuartet 5.2.2 DMG image someone had posted on this thread. When i first run the CQ on Win7x64, it said it could not run this scanner on this operating system without a firmware update. But it did let me update the firmware.

I hosted the firmwares here, for easier access:

http://tempppz.host-ed.me/temp/Scanner_Firmware/

Unless someone has later firmwares somewhere?
 
There was also some sort of comparison of Scanmate 11000 and Scanmate 5000 earlier. It seemed that at least the Scanmate 5000 picture was not properly focused.

So here is an example, of the sharpness in Scanmate 5000 after i manually adjusted the focus via "Focus Elevation":

sm5000dpi.jpg


This is just a drymounted 35mm neg. No sharpening. It's not about the content of the picture, it's about the sharpness of the grain.

And just for the sake of comparison, here is the same frame scanned with Flextight Precission 2 @ 6300dpi. It takes almost 15min to do a 6300dpi scan from 35mm negative. It only took about 6min to do the 5000dpi scan on Scanmate 5000. This was unexpected, drumscanner is actually faster! If you don't wet mount, it's actually pretty fast to do scans. I have not still cleaned the optics on this, and both B&W scans could be even more sharper, if i would scan them as RGB and use only the green channel. The flextight scan was also much more flat, i boosted the contrast to make them about the same.

But Flextight P2 is clearly sharper at this point.

p2flex6300dpi.jpg


Here is a screenshot, to give you hope for running this on Win7x64, so you don't need extra computers & old operating systems:

qc_win7x64.jpg


I'm running this via Adaptec AIC-7870 PCI, it's not supported in Win7.. but there was some sort of way around it (google and you will find it). I use also my Flextight P2 via it in Win7x64.

At the moment, it seems the largest file size i can get out of this is 500mb. This is weird, i assume i should get at least 1gb? Could this be an effect of running this on 64bit system?
 
Fernando2 said:
I get 2GB files (max size before errors occur) from my SM11000; but this is on MacOSX 10.2 (PPC, 32 bit).
A 500 MB limit is really, really strange!
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I tested this more accurately, and it gives me 689mb max file size. At 690mb it gives me "Error no 1-6: ReadData error row 0 stripsize 1"

Maybe the firmware i put on this, is not correct. It was the same for Scanmate 4000 & 5000, so maybe the filesize limit is the limit of Scanmate 4000.

The problem with the drum zero point was just a piece of plastic, that was blocking the drum from moving all the way to the zero point micro switch. Everything seems to work fine now, need to look into this file size dilemma.

Ps. Ok, it's not a file size limit.. it was the whole pixel limit. I was thinking it upside down... I'll check how big of a file it is when the height is 10500px.

Pss. Yes, the limit is 2GB and it is in the software. The hardware has the 10500px limit on vertical lines. So this thing works flawlessly in Win7x64. Pretty nice!
 
Anyone happen to know, if i can select from which channel the BW image is made in QC 5.2.2? Green channel is always best in scanning, and it would be a waste to scan everything in RGB just to get the green channel.
 
I don't think it's possible to select the RGB channel to use as gray. 🙁

And yes, the 10500 pixels limit is well known, I wrote about it in this very thread: it's probably due to an internal hardware line buffer of 64KB.

To cirvumvent this and the 2GB file limit, I now scan in stripes, and then merge them using Photoshop's PhotoMerge.

Your scanner seems in good shape, congratulations! 🙂

Fernando
 
Fernando2 said:
I don't think it's possible to select the RGB channel to use as gray. 🙁

And yes, the 10500 pixels limit is well known, I wrote about it in this very thread: it's probably due to an internal hardware line buffer of 64KB.

To cirvumvent this and the 2GB file limit, I now scan in stripes, and then merge them using Photoshop's PhotoMerge.

Your scanner seems in good shape, congratulations! 🙂

Fernando
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Seems these are pretty solid builds. It had taken a beating in shipping, damage in plastic parts and the spindle/motor connector severed. But after some epoxy & a piece of bicycle inner tube to repair the spindle, it's working perfectly.

I now know why these things weight 39kg, the frame inside is extremely sturdy build. To get this thing out of alignment, it would really need to get a huge blow.

scanmate_fix.jpg


If the pixel limit is the same in the Scanmate 11000, doesn't this mean you can only scan less than about one inch @ 11000dpi? I can scan 2.1" @ 5000dpi

The good thing seems to be that unlike Flextight, i can get scans that are not warped in any way. So i can combine these manually as they fit perfectly, don't even need automerge.. it's slow as hell with big files like these.

With Flextight, you need automerge, as every scan is different. I have scanned in parts using 35mm holder, to get max resolution.
 
If you think the Scanmates are sturdy (they are, to a point), you should see the Dainippons, still qualifying as "desktop scanners" 🙂
Of course ICGs and Heidelbergs are even sturdier, but not "desktop scanners" by any stretch of imagination. 😉
 
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