Nice! That is a pleasant suprise. Would expect an EPROM change might have been required.
I wonder if my Minolta has a similar upgrade. I will look in to it if I ever get the SCSI communication to work.
Of course, the grayscale will be much better for the image, schematic, and diagram pages. The text only pages are probably fine as black and white, but as a rule for me I always ingest as color so I don't knitpick each and every page at the scanning ingest step.
-Michael
On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 09:15 Peter Brown <
peter@...> wrote:
Whilst looking through the service manual for the Canon MS-800 I noticed that it listed a 128Mb SODIM as being optional and necessary for the greyscale option?
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My machine did not have this fitted so I popped a PC66 stick in and hey presto the software at the PC end of the system now reports that 16 / 256 level grayscale is now available as a scan parameter (previously only black and white).? It also appears to have opened up a contrast option on the PC end.
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Great that all the software appears to be resident on the hardware by default.?
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I wonder how much they charged for the grayscale option back in the day?
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Peter
