That means that the scanner has 600 CCD sensors and the CCD resolution
itself is therefore 600spi, but it essentially travels 4 times as slow or
takes samples in increments of 1/4 of the distance between sensors or 2400
samples per inch, resulting in the claimed "2400spi" lengthwise. Consider
it
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From: "Acer V" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 12:49 AM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: epson flatbed transparency adaptor?
| yes, the native res is 600dpi optical (altho they claim 600x2400 hardware
| res (what is that? i know
The privately owned and, I might add well maintained 'archives' are
Filmscanners List Archive Thang: http://phi.res.cse.dmu.ac.uk/Filmscan/
I don't know what to suggest since Photoshop will start but not import the
picture - it sounds like something in Photoshop rather than Vuescan, but as
a
But for graphics there is nothing like a Solux -
SoLux is a patented light source that emits a beam of natural daylight
for optimal color rendering properties. SoLux is currently available as a 50
watt , 12 volt
lamp in a standard MR-16 format. It emits daylight at correlated color
temperatures
My guess is that Silverfast is only providing the reasonably priced SE
version for flatbeds and older/cheaper scanners and wants to make its full
profit on the full version from filmscanners. Just a hunch - nothing
concrete that I can base it on.
Maris
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From: "Rob
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 21:50:19 -0500 Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.
| ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
|
| I'll draw some flack from this you I can point you to, without
| recommending or disparaging the site,
| http://www.aim-dtp.net/aim/calibration/kodak_q60/index.htm
|
| This looks fascinating. I don't se
The point of the statement attributed to Einstein is not that the child
could then understand it, but that the person explaining the concept could
be said to understand it only if he/she were able to set it forth in a short
but pithy form.
Maris
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From: "Laurie
The gamut warning would be meaningful - it advises that you have a choice to
make concerning rendering intent. The crux IMHO is deciding whether the
particular saturation of the out-of-gamut colors and those in gamut is more
important than the "overall relationship between colors". The best
I do agree with you and was, I guess, presuming both parties to have the
requisite background knowledge. I saw the smiley but didn't see it as a
winky - sorry.
Maris
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From: "Laurie Solomon" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 4:56
MS KB Article Q229085 at
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q229/0/85.ASP covers the
issue of a missing DMA check box: and it's solution. However:
"This issue can occur if a non-ATAPI driver is controlling the drive. For
example, SCSI drives do not have this check box, and drives
The manual is also available for separate download at Silverfast's website
http://www.silverfast.com/english/download/pdfs.html
Maris
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From: "Bud" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Insight,
Thank you for a very thorough, very detailed review.
Maris Lidaka
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From: "Dieder Bylsma" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 12:19 AM
Subject: filmscanners: Brief review of LS-4000
| Just thought I'd pipe in with my own two
I just went to http://www.silverfast.com/english/silverfast/se/ where it
reads:
Currently available versions: DC-SE for digital cameras, SE for Epson ,
Hewlett Packard, LaCie, Microtek, Nikon, Umax scanners.
Maris
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From: "Stuart" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL
I could deal with
the blue of the fringe but not the darkness of the fringe:
(Using Corel PhotoPaint) I changed to LAB mode,
then adjusted the tone curve of channel B (the blue-yellow continuum
channel): I raised the middle of the curve from 0-0 coordinates to about
0-+2 or 3 on a scale of
I'll draw some flack from this you I can point you to, without recommending
or disparaging the site,
http://www.aim-dtp.net/aim/calibration/kodak_q60/index.htm
I haven't had the time to go through his method or try it but if you do
please let me know whether it's good, bad or indifferent.
Maris
Mikael,
I do believe you initiated this discussion.
Maris
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From: "Mikael Risedal" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 7:41 AM
Subject: RE: filmscanners: film scanner software
|
| Lynn Allen
|
| I hope to have a relevant
It must be a temporary situation because I downloaded Silverfast SE for my
Epson flatbed about a month ago when it first came out.
BTW that last time I checked the LE version worked only with a number of
flatbed scanners as listed on their website but did not work with any
filmscanners.
Maris
I agree with the others that it is best to do just the basic scan, setting
white and black points and color masking for negatives, in Insight and then
using Photoshop for all corrections and adjustments. The features and
methods you can use in Photoshop far exceed those in Insight, and the
Copy of Larry's message:
"Review of the new Nikon CoolScan 4000 at the Imaging Resource Newsletter:
http://www.imaging-resource.com/IRNEWS/
***
Larry Berman"
Maris
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From: "Pat Perez" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
And they said a perpetual motion machine could not be constructed . . .
Maris
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From: "heriltd" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: SS4000 problems - again
| The dust mote strikes again
|
| You
Vuescan's "Clean" option on the Filters tab is the ICE control.
Maris
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From: "Jeremy Brookfield" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Review of the Nikon CoolScan 4000
|
|
| Rob Geraghty wrote:
|
Michael,
IMHO Vuescan is more the Porsche - it's settings are much more difficult to
master. But, like the Porsche, once you do understand it, it will do
exactly what you ask of it.
We discuss it because we use it and it is complex, yet when set properly
makes the workflow much smoother,
No there is not, unfortunately, though we have asked Ed Hamrick the
developer if he could/would do so.
Maris
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From: "Jeremy Brookfield" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Review of the Nikon
I have been changing to LAB and splitting the channels, then applying either
a Gaussian blur or Dust and Scratches, depending on the size of the grain,
in the A and B channels only. Most of the sharpness remains in the L
channel when you recombine.
See Dan Margulis's chapter from Professional
Kodak still has Gold Ultima on their website. Are your sure they stopped
making them?
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/digital/cdr/product/index.jhtml
Maris
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From: "Tim Atherton" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 11:08 AM
Subject:
Sure there are:
7.01
* Added Eject button
* Fixed problem with scan stopping when Scan tab
chosen during scan
7.02
* If Abort button is pressed and "Device|Auto eject"
is set to "Preview" or "Scan", eject won't be done
7.09
* If cleaning filter selected, infrared channel
Thank you Michael. I just copied a music CD for my daughter - brand new
Plextor and brand new Kodak disc - and it wouldn't play on my living room
DVD. Now I know the probable reason why.
Maris
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From: "Michael Moore" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
-
From: "Berry Ives" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 7:56 PM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Printdpi
| on 3/29/01 7:58 AM, Maris V. Lidaka, Sr. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|
| The general consensus is printing in the range of 240-360dpi, and it
will
s in a way a backward approach to color adjustment,
| but with these scans the skin tones are what matter to me.
|
| Thanks for the shortcut to at least get me to some baseline.
|
| --
| Jim
|
|
| "Maris V. Lidaka, Sr." wrote:
|
| VueScan is very interesting and useful to the subsc
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| From: Maris V. Lidaka, Sr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 7:47 AM
| Subject: Re: filmscanners: negative and skin tones
|
|
|
| Another problem that comes to mind is that scanners export the image in
| RGB
| and desktop printer
Probably because this is a filmscanners list, I would think.
Maris
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From: "Frank Paris" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 12:38 AM
Subject: RE: filmscanners: Printdpi
| I have been through so many cartridges on my Epson 2000P
VueScan is very interesting and useful to the subscribers on this group, and
the program is somewhat opaque resulting in the many discussions of what
appear to be insignificant details and changes in the different versions. I
would venture to say that Vuescan is the primary scanning program used
No trick - line screen frequency relates to optimal
print resolution but is not the same thing.
If 320lpi works best on your set-up, though, there
is no way I would say you were overshooting or somehow wrong. The proof is
in the (empirical) pudding.
Maris
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Frank Paris
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumList?u=62684
|
| -Original Message-
| From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Maris V. Lidaka,
| Sr.
| Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 6:06 AM
| To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Subject: Re: fi
Yes, set the white and black points in the scanner software to get the most
even range of tones.
The scanner file output should optimally not be a full 0 and 255 but rather
your suggested ~5 or 6 and ~245-250. If you in fact want full 0 and/or 255
points you are better off doing that once you
I have but 3 suggestions:
scan small items which fit between the bands
only;
return the HP to HP and enjoy life outside for the
while; or
replace it with a Minolta or Nikon.
Maris
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From:
Ezio
To: Film Scanners News Group
Sent: Saturday, March 31,
AFAIK no damage is done to the FAT table on your disks. If the logfile was
completed and written to disk, it should still be there. If you have the
software to do so, make a search for all files created on the date the log
should have been written and at or after a time shortly before the log
Try a raw scan in VueScan and open that in Photoshop or your other graphics
program.
Maris
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From: "Jules" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 4:45 PM
Subject: filmscanners: scanning cross-processed film
| i'm trying to scan some
Repairing Digital Photographs is still available online at
http://www.jtgraphics.net/sample/DIGITAL_PHOTO_REPAIR.pdf
Maris
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From: "Bob Shomler" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 10:13 AM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Grain aliasing
Investigate it - it's what you want. From the
Help file:
"Prefs tab
Get dpi from/Dpi or width These options
let you specify how to compute the dots per inch (dpi) of the cropped
images. The dpi can be the same as the scanned image, can be
explicitly set, or can be computed so that the
The general consensus is printing in the range of 240-360dpi, and it will
depend on the paper - for a good explanation of why see
http://www.scantips.com/
The best thing to do is to experiment on *your* printer and find the optimal
dpi for each type of paper you generally use. I did that for my
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From: "Tony Sleep" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 8:26 AM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: AcerScanwit
| On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:08:50 -0600 Maris V. Lidaka, Sr.
| ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
|
| Not that many reviews
Just a note on LZW compressed image portability - I have run into one
instance where an LZW compressed image was not portable - when exporting a
48-bit compressed TIFF from Vuescan to Corel PhotoPaint 9 it opens but the
image is unrecognizable. If exported uncompressed there is no problem, and
Not that many reviews but those that are out there say it works well. But
apparently VueScan no longer supports it, though it supports the 2720S.
Maris
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From: "Richard Starr" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 12:04 PM
Subject:
Does anyone have any experience with or seen reviews of the new PlexWriterT
16/10/40A? I know the Plextor PlexWriter 12/10/32A
is good and am essentially concerned with new-product bugs.
Maris Lidaka
From Epson Inkjet Mailing list Resources: http://home.att.net/~arwomack01/
A4 is 8.3" x 11.7"
A3 is 11.7" x 16.5"
Maris
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From: "Chris Hargens" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: "Chris Hargens" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 9:43 AM
My understanding is that, though without embedding it, this option uses the
scanner profile as selected in your graphics program in transferring the
image to the graphics program, and the graphics program would than embed
it's default/preferred color space in the image if it embeds such spaces as
No, you're not going to *have* to buy one. You can fly without shifting
gears. What I see is what I get and all I did to get was calibrate the
monitor and watch the numbers and pick the right printer profile from
several stock.
Maris
- Original Message -
From: "Michael Wilkinson"
I am not experiencing this - my reds are undersaturated to about the same
extent as other colors (I use Corel PhotoPaint and not PhotoShop so I can
compare only the first step). Is the red oversaturated in Vuescan's View
panel as well?
I generally use Bruce RGB, but tried Colormatch out just to
ults when the output
is for the web...
|
| --
| Jim
|
|
|
| -- Original Message ------
| From: "Maris V. Lidaka, Sr." [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 09:33:13 -0600
|
| I think what the low-budget photo printers must d
Vuescan does support it:
"12-bit data from LS-40, 14-bit data from LS-4000"
The URL is http://www.hamrick.com/
I haven't seen or heard of any reviews yet except Ed Hamrick's short but
positive note - I don't think it's been in shipment long enough yet.
Maris
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You should at least set the thresholds (black and white) on the scanning
software using the TWAIN software tools. Inasmuch as the monitor is old and
not calibrated, I would make other adjustments at home in PS. This could
well be a contributing cause to the darkness of the images, though the
Bill,
There is a very good explanation of this at
http://www.scantips.com/basics1a.html - Wayne Fulton makes the point that
not all screens display at 72dpi, and especially not those on this list.
Maris
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From: "Tony Sleep" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That is correct.
Maris
- Original Message -
From: "Stan Schwartz" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 8:50 AM
Subject: RE: filmscanners: Vuescan 7.0.5--no more split screen?
| I am a few versions behind on Vuescan.
|
| Is it no longer possible to
No suggestions for you, but you (and others) might be interested in an
edited production of a thread of messages on Dan Margulis's Color Theory
maillist:
"Dan asks for assessment of current economic conditions for professional
photographers, and gets more responses than he expected."
Thanks, Tony
Maris
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From: "Tony Sleep" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 6:18 AM
Subject: filmscanners: ADMIN: OT bad tempers
| On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:51:30 - Dicky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
|
| What I will not accept is
Try this way:
http://www.polaroidwork.com/home/LLframeset.jsp?body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.polar
oidwork.com%2Flisting%2FListing.jsp%3FFOLDER%253C%253Efolder_id%3D58263%26FO
LDER%253C%253EbrowsePath%3D58263%26ASSORTMENT%253C%253East_id%3D58263%26bmUI
D%3D984362506401
Maris
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TECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 8:32 PM
Subject: RE: filmscanners: Puzzled about display resolution
| -Original Message-
| From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Maris V. Lidaka,
| Sr.
| Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 5:14 PM
| To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Subj
Looking at it now it won't link:
Cut and paste all seven lines together, deleting any spaces that come up in
between, and it will work fine.
Maris
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From: "Maris V. Lidaka, Sr." [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 9:36 AM
S
I follow what you're suggesting but I'm not sure
how to test the monitor for whitepoint change. I believe NVIDIA's
Detonator 3 driver actually does control gamma though. Image is
below.
Maris
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From: "shAf" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
Good work, Dean.
Maris
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From: "Shough, Dean" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 12:23 PM
Subject: RE: filmscanners: Vuescan grain removal idea
| Maybe Ed or someone else has a better idea about how the Vuescan grain
| removal
http://www.idahoairships.com/photoshop.htm#Gradients might be of some help.
Maris
- Original Message -
From: "Tony Sleep" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 4:44 AM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Yo Tokyo
| On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 12:46:43 -0800 Hersch
Does the Matrox G450 have a setting for changing the monitor's gamma? And
if so, is there is taskbar 'quick select' type of option such that one could
switch back and forth between 1.8 gamma and 2.2 default with ease?
Maris Lidaka
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From: "Elmar Pinkhardt" [EMAIL
1)The only details that show up would be the radius pixels the
sharpening itself creates, which is exactly what we want.
By sharpening initially we create these extra pixels. Thereafter, applying
levels and curves alters all pixels including these new extra pixels, and
the levels and curves
NO - NO - NO - not the chemical products for the windows. You might check
the archives as cleaning film has been discussed here recently, but the
suggestions essentially were:
Photo cleaning fluid - Kodak's was found to be not particularly effective
but a product called PEC-12 was. If you
I experienced it on the finished TIF scans in the first BETA, but not in the
second or the final version 7.0
Maris
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From: "heriltd" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 10:17 PM
Subject: filmscanners: Vuescan 7.0_.bmp file on
I finished the review myself - it was fairly good in terms of the settings
and controls of the 3 cards but useless in terms of card quality and
capability. Unfortunately, the only reviews of the substance of the cards
were by game groups and publications where (of course) they didn't cover our
Whatever. I'm going with the ATI Radeon VE.
Maris
- Original Message -
From: "Frank Paris" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 10:19 PM
Subject: RE: filmscanners: Independent Resolution on Dual Monitor Win2K
|
|
| -Original Message-
|
You might compromise by setting the full scan for a lower-resolution image
for sample purposes, and then when satisfied set the scan for the full
resolution setting.
Maris
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From: "Mark T." [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 12:22
There is a review of 3 dual-monitor video cards at
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1423
I have just barely started reading it so I don't know how valuable it is.
Maris
- Original Message -
From: "Colin Maddock" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 14,
You could do this now, though somewhat slower, by decreasing Scan resolution
on the Device tab to a minimal number, and leaving the "Viewer" line on the
Prefs tab empty so that the image does not open your graphics program but
merely shows on the Scan tab of Vuescan. The image will scan at low
That's what I was thinking of also, as the Help file implies that the dust
removal process will "reduce film grain" and "reduce more film grain". I
was also referring a previous post by Ed, to wit:
"When there's no infrared channel, VueScan 6.6 does a nice job
reducing film grain, but the Scrub
Have you calibrated the black points of both monitors and set them to the
same temperature?
Maris
- Original Message -
From: "Larry Berman" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 5:56 AM
Subject: filmscanners: Trying to Calibrate Monitors to Match
| Now
There was a thread on CDs here in early February - you might check at
http://phi.res.cse.dmu.ac.uk/Filmscan/
Maris
- Original Message -
From: "Khalid Javed" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 4:03 AM
Subject: filmscanners: Scanning negatives for
Just don't forget to put the plus sign after the "xy023" - so you type in
"xy023+.tif"
Maris
- Original Message -
From: "Frank Paris" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 8:49 PM
Subject: RE: filmscanners: Vuescan: Incrementing TIFF file names
| It
P.S. You might want to review the comp.periphs.printers FAQ:
http://www.interface-ag.com/~jsf/printers/cpp70105.txt
Maris
- Original Message -
From: "patton paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 8:56 PM
Subject: filmscanners: RE: Photo quality
I have the HP Photosmart P1000. I have never had an Epson so I cannot give
you a personal opinion comparing the two.
I did monitor the Epsons and HPs on mailing lists and newsgroups for a while
before purchasing, and there were some expressions of concern as to the
Epsons printheads clogging
I've had the chance to try it out on about a dozen scans after taking care
of business (book store and dinner with my daughter). I am very pleased
with the new layout and with the organization in terms of what's on which
tab. I do have to suggestions:
1)On the Crop tab, move "Rotate" and
Frank,
I think it's only busy temporarily - a great volume of mail arising out of
suggestions for Ed Hamrick's new v.7 of Vuescan.
Maris
- Original Message -
From: "Jules" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 1:42 AM
Subject: filmscanners: OT: anyone
No, I'm not sick of this. The multitude of messages concerning Vuescan is
temporary and arises from the new version 7 just issued in Beta - I'd much
rather that we were able to provide input into program desires to Ed than
that there be fewer messages. In addition, Vuescan is important software
I'm not sure the Kodak RFS3600 is supported by Vuescan - check the archives,
something in the back of my memory rings.
Maris
- Original Message -
From: "Arthur Entlich" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 6:16 AM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Vuescan
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