Bob, I used to do this with an ancient Sharp JX250 flat-bed. The quality was really ordinary, but as a reference sheet it was OK. The biggest problem was that strips of 6 negatives are slightly wider than the bed of the scanner, so there was always a small amount of cut-off - but not significant for the purpose. The next problem is that my Epson Colour Stylus 800 has developed severe banding when printing to plain paper, and I'm not inclined to spend the money to sort it out just yet! You do, of course, need to have a transparency adaptor for the scanner... HTH
John Coyle Brisbane, Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 4:48 PM Subject: Re: GFM: Contact Sheet #2 > Hi, > > > My lab made a contact sheet, and I scanned that. > > > The quality is, I know, horrible. Just to give an idea of what the prints > > might look like, were I to get them done up. > > I wasn't thinking about the quality, which I thought was ok for a > contact sheet. I'm just interested in the possibility of making > contact sheets using a flatbed scanner, for filing with the negs. It > would be a money saver. > > I must try it sometime. My work gave me a multifunction printer, > scanner, copier, fax machine a few months ago, but I've never taken it > out of the box because I don't have room for it all. > > -- > Cheers, > Bob >
