Hi all, I have come across a article in our local Isle of Wight weekly paper the "County Press" This is a excellent paper with Birth and death reports each week which I carefully go through and scan in parts. In 1929 my mother was pictured with my eldest sister on her lap, with her four G Grandmothers included in separate photos with them. I thought I might be able to match unknown photos to the G Grandmothers but found no photos that matched, so the article contains the only pictures of them. The cutting was scanned by someone who passed the file to my via a cousin, it was very dark yellow So I went to the papers office hoping to get a new printout. We found it easily as my cutting had the date on it. On them printing it I am very disappointed, it seems to be printed in "black and White" as opposed to "grayscale" I appreciate most printouts they do will be text and "black and White" should be ok, but with photos it brings terrible results. I tactfully asked how the printer was set up, but was told their IT sets it and it cannot be changed. I then tried to ask how they would re print the article as they sometimes do in a looking back section but the assistant did not know. They do not still have the photos themselves, I would of willingly bought copies! I did ask if there was a way of me having the image as a file to print at home, but was told no. Does anyone have any thoughts on how I can get this in a reasonably quality? Thanks, Mick. IOW.

Mick wrote: > Hi all, > I have come across a article in our local Isle of Wight weekly paper > the "County Press" > This is a excellent paper with Birth and death reports each week which > I carefully go through and scan in parts. > In 1929 my mother was pictured with my eldest sister on her lap, with > her four G Grandmothers included in separate photos with them. > I thought I might be able to match unknown photos to the G > Grandmothers but found no photos that matched, so the article contains > the only pictures of them. > > The cutting was scanned by someone who passed the file to my via a > cousin, it was very dark yellow > So I went to the papers office hoping to get a new printout. > We found it easily as my cutting had the date on it. > On them printing it I am very disappointed, it seems to be printed in > "black and White" as opposed to "grayscale" > I appreciate most printouts they do will be text and "black and White" > should be ok, but with photos it brings terrible results. > I tactfully asked how the printer was set up, but was told their IT > sets it and it cannot be changed. > > I then tried to ask how they would re print the article as they > sometimes do in a looking back section but the assistant did not know. > > They do not still have the photos themselves, I would of willingly > bought copies! > > I did ask if there was a way of me having the image as a file to print > at home, but was told no. > > Does anyone have any thoughts on how I can get this in a reasonably > quality? Did the newspaper have the original hard-copy or just a microfilm? If they had microfilm, you're toasted -- microfilm didn't have that sort of detail. If they have a scan (suggested by the need for an IT person), and they scanned the microfilm you're toasted for the same reason. If they scanned the original, see if you can get a digital copy of their digital file of that issue. If they had hard-copy, trot out your handy-dandy digital camera, or in a pinch, your cell/mobile phone's camera. Did you check the new LDS site? They have a lot of material newly scanned as pdf and the images I'm seeing are orders of magnitude better than the microfilmed versions. Cheryl

On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 09:13:59 +0100, Mick <mrcycleuk@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >Hi all, > I have come across a article in our local Isle of Wight weekly paper >the "County Press" >[...] >On them printing it I am very disappointed, it seems to be printed in >"black and White" as opposed to "grayscale" >I appreciate most printouts they do will be text and "black and White" >[...] Even in black and white, choice of output type is not necessarily intuitive. My HP Scanjet 3400C, using HP PrecisionScan LTX, offers Text Text and Image Black and White Drawing Black and White Photograph Color Drawing Normal Colour Photograph Best Colour Photograph I don't think that I have ever found the results of Black and White Drawing satisfactory, even for black and white drawings. I use a photograph setting. For black and white drawings, I use IrfanView to remove grey background that should be white, by editing the palette.

Mick wrote: > > Does anyone have any thoughts on how I can get this in a reasonably > quality? > Thanks, > Mick. IOW. > Ask them who their IT person is and get on to him/her direct. Or find out if your local library/archives also has back copies and see if they can do a better job -- Anne Chambers South Australia anne dot chambers at bigpond dot com

On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 09:13:59 +0100, Mick <mrcycleuk@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >Hi all, > I have come across a article in our local Isle of Wight weekly paper >the "County Press" (snip) >Does anyone have any thoughts on how I can get this in a reasonably >quality? >Thanks, When it comes to newspaper photographs that are, as you know, mostly comprised of just a series of various sized and spaced black dots on the white newspaper, hence a 2 colour image. One technique that I have successfully used is to scan the photo at a fairly high resolution and then use the resize function in a graphics program (Paint Shop Pro etc) to reduce the size of the image to the pixel size you want. It seems* like the resizing looks to 'close up' the dot spacing to give more of an impression of a grey scale image. * I say seems as that's what I noticed and whilst it may have just been an abberation it's not difficult to give it a go and see what sort of result you get. Cheers, -- Robert G. Eldridge Toronto NSW Australia http://www.eldridgegenealogy.org Now researching ELDRIDGE families world wide 1000s at my Web site *Wanted* Any Eldridge related information This newsgroup post is not an invitation to reply by email.