Scanning is only half the process. After the image is scanned, you may want to manipulate it (resize it, retouch it if it's a photograph, etc.) and save it in some usable format (for example, jpg). I use a free downloadable program called Irfanview (www.irfanview.com) to do most of my work with graphics. I do have a couple other programs when I need more sophisticated photo fixes. If you're working with a photo for example, you'd scan it, open up your Irfanview (or other photo software), fiddle with it to get it right, and then save the image. You'd attach it to an outgoing email using the "attach" or "insert file" or "send photo" option that you have on the program you use for your email. -----Original Message----- From: Donna [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 9:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [SP] FW: How do you e-mail scanned material? From: Sybil Chapman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 12:28 PM To: Donna Subject: How do you e-mail scanned material? Mystery to me. ==== SCANNERS-PHOTOS Mailing List ==== To subscribe or unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] or [email protected] with the singe word SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx

I received the below email directly from "Walter" regarding my email to the group. This was my response. Am I out of line? Please advise. Sally _____ From: Sally Fasano [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 8:43 AM To: '[email protected]' Subject: RE: [SP] Canon scanner and printer What does that mean? I thought that was what this group was all about? My friend doesn't have to make any adjustments to her HP and it copies perfectly. I would like to know if anyone else is experiencing this problem. I have a work around - Photo Shop. I would like to "learn" via this Yahoo Group, what else I might do or try to not have to import everything into Photo Shop. Sally _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 8:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [SP] Canon scanner and printer Perhaps you should try to learn - like the rest of us. Walter

I have a Canon 9900 scanner and a Canon i860 printer. I thought everything was fine until my friend took a magazine page and Scanned and printed it. Did not import it into any other program like Adobe Photo Shop. It came out exactly like the magazine - color wise. Not true for my Canon duo. In order for it to look like the magazine Full color I have to import it into Photo Shop and then hit the "level"s adjustment and then tone down perhaps the reds. Any suggestions. I did call Canon and they told me that I should print using their Canon Easy Print program, not the print program that the computer defaults to which is also theirs. This is crazy. We spent a lot of time choosing our Scanner and printer and purchased a Canon because we thought the color was the best. For 20 years we had been HP customers. I shouldn't have to mess with and really don't know how to mess with the adjustments. Help. Sally San Diego -----Original Message----- From: Donna [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 7:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [SP] Livin' up the list Hi List, As the list administrator I've noticed a lot of new subscribers to this list. We must be having problems with our scanners or wanting some good advice. How about if we start out with posting some of the problems, & see if some of the more knowledgeable people can give us some advice. I know I probably don't use my scanner to its full potential. When I do use it, it is just a hit & miss thing. I keep trying until I get something that looks acceptable. Donna ==== SCANNERS-PHOTOS Mailing List ==== To subscribe or unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] or [email protected] with the singe word SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx

Thanks, to all of you, for your help. Pat

In a message dated 02 12 2005 3:01:19 AM, [email protected] writes: << The manual is no help, and the on-line instructions/faqs are so much gobbledy-gook to me. >> ooooooooooooooooooooooooo call technical support

Pat, Simple steps? Okay. 1. Read the Manual cover-to-cover -- get to know the machine you purchased. 2. While reading the Manual, watch for something to do with "Scan Material," "Source Material," or similar language. Your choices would be something like: "Reflective," "Negative," or "Positive." (Your mileage may vary.) Of course, noting your aversion to reading the Manual, you could always use your image editing software (that's the program you are printing from) to simply "Invert" or "Reverse" the image. Ron -----Original Message----- From: Pat M. Mahan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 6:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [SP] Scanner advice needed Good Morning! I recently purchased a Umax FS180 - it's small, but I think it will do the job I want. It uses SilverFast. My problem is that I cannot figure out how to print a negative once I have scanned it, so it looks like a photo instead of a negative. The manual is no help, and the on-line instructions/faqs are so much gobbledy-gook to me. I know this is an amateur's question, and probably dumb, but I'll try to ask only one dumb question per message. Please explain what I need to do in very simple steps. Thank you! Pat M. Mahan Florence, AL

Good Morning! I recently purchased a Umax FS180 - it's small, but I think it will do the job I want. It uses SilverFast. My problem is that I cannot figure out how to print a negative once I have scanned it, so it looks like a photo instead of a negative. The manual is no help, and the on-line instructions/faqs are so much gobbledy-gook to me. I know this is an amateur's question, and probably dumb, but I'll try to ask only one dumb question per message. Please explain what I need to do in very simple steps. Thank you! Pat M. Mahan Florence, AL

Does this machine scan micro fiche also? Many thanks. Shirley -----Original Message----- From: Paula Hinkel [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 26 January 2005 10:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [SP] scanning micro film http://www.heritagecreations.com/products/st200.php Absolutely. This is a wonderful machine that we are using as part of our genealogy society's project to recreate the 1890 Census for Los Angeles County. It works like a dream. I am not involved with this company, just a happy customer. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 6:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [SP] scanning micro film Does anyone know if it is possible to scan micro film to a computer or CD? If so, how is it done?

I think so. You can probably get more information from the product information at the website noted below. -----Original Message----- From: Shirley Brown [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 4:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [SP] scanning micro film Does this machine scan micro fiche also? Many thanks. Shirley -----Original Message----- From: Paula Hinkel [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 26 January 2005 10:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [SP] scanning micro film http://www.heritagecreations.com/products/st200.php Absolutely. This is a wonderful machine that we are using as part of our genealogy society's project to recreate the 1890 Census for Los Angeles County. It works like a dream. I am not involved with this company, just a happy customer. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 6:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [SP] scanning micro film Does anyone know if it is possible to scan micro film to a computer or CD? If so, how is it done? ==== SCANNERS-PHOTOS Mailing List ==== To subscribe or unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] or [email protected] with the singe word SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx

Does anyone know if it is possible to scan micro film to a computer or CD? If so, how is it done?

http://www.heritagecreations.com/products/st200.php Absolutely. This is a wonderful machine that we are using as part of our genealogy society's project to recreate the 1890 Census for Los Angeles County. It works like a dream. I am not involved with this company, just a happy customer. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 6:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [SP] scanning micro film Does anyone know if it is possible to scan micro film to a computer or CD? If so, how is it done? ==== SCANNERS-PHOTOS Mailing List ==== To subscribe or unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] or [email protected] with the singe word SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx

Hi Hope this message makes sense! For some time I have scanned Genealogical magazines using the e-mail facility on my HP Scanjet 5370C; and then save the pdf file which enables me to search for words in the text using Adobe's Find tool. However lately I have not been able to use the Find tool as it tells me that there is no specific word when I know there is. This has occurred on my last few scannings. Anyone know what the problem could be? I know if ii was scanned in bmp I would not be able to "search" the pdf document. I cannot find anywhere where I can confirm what the e-mail messages are scanned in (ie jpeg; gif or whatever). If that problem can't be solved I will have to scan them normally as separate pages which would give me up to 40 pdf pages/files within one folder. I presume there is software out there where I can combine the referred to pages. Any suggestions? Thanks for your time Garry New Zealand

Hi Garry, I don't know the facility you refer to - but if the pdf file was able to search for words using the Adobe "find" then you were using some OCR (optical character recognition) software, not any of the graphics formats you mention (bmp, jpg, gif, etc). Hope that helps you to refind the right options. Cathy At 13:03 25/01/2005, Garry F Bell wrote: >Hi > >Hope this message makes sense! > >For some time I have scanned Genealogical magazines using the e-mail >facility on my HP Scanjet 5370C; and then save the pdf file which enables me >to search for words in the text using Adobe's Find tool. However lately I >have not been able to use the Find tool as it tells me that there is no >specific word when I know there is. This has occurred on my last few >scannings. Anyone know what the problem could be? I know if ii was >scanned in bmp I would not be able to "search" the pdf document. I cannot >find anywhere where I can confirm what the e-mail messages are scanned in >(ie jpeg; gif or whatever). > >If that problem can't be solved I will have to scan them normally as >separate pages which would give me up to 40 pdf pages/files within one >folder. I presume there is software out there where I can combine the >referred to pages. Any suggestions? > >Thanks for your time >Garry >New Zealand

Happy Holidays to you all. I agree - Rootsweb Review is well worth receiving each week. I have had , for a few years, an Epsom Color Stylus 400 printer. I have been very satisfied with it until the past couple of months when the colour copying leaves a lot to be desired. The reds are more a purple is one example of things not printing correctly. The cartridge was only changed a relatively short time ago but admittedly has quite a bit of use. Is it a sign that the cartridge needs renewing (no lights flashing <g>) or is the Printer starting to die on me? Garry New Zealand >> If anyone is not subscribed to Rootsweb Review, I would highly recommend > it. >> They discuss quit a lot of useful topics. New message boards, mailing > lists, >> how to avoid being scammed, new User-contributed databases, helpful >> hints, >> etc.

Web Site www.ssclg.com will solve a lot of epson printer problems Nick Ashby UK Garry F Bell wrote: > Happy Holidays to you all. > > > I have had , for a few years, an Epsom Color Stylus 400 printer. I > have been very satisfied with it until the past couple of months when > the colour copying leaves a lot to be desired. The reds are more a > purple is one example of things not printing correctly. The cartridge > was only changed a relatively short time ago but admittedly has quite > a bit of use. Is it a sign that the cartridge needs renewing (no > lights flashing <g>) or is the Printer starting to die on me? > > Garry > New Zealand > >> >> >>> > > > > ==== SCANNERS-PHOTOS Mailing List ==== > To subscribe or unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] or > [email protected] with the singe word SUBSCRIBE > or UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx > > > . >

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Hello Ann Just a note of appreciation for your past efforts and a prayer for the improved health of your husband. I can identify. Trust you will find a replacement quickly. Meanwhile, may He reign His blessings upon your home this holiday season. Ron Davies Surrey, BC At 03:41 PM 12/15/04 -0600, Ann Winder wrote: >Hi folks, > >This is Ann Winder...I started this list some time ago, and now I need to >retire. My husband has substantial medical problems that

Hi folks, This is Ann Winder...I started this list some time ago, and now I need to retire. My husband has substantial medical problems that keep me from doing the job with the list that I should. SO... I am looking for a volunteer to take over list manager duties... please address me at [email protected] . I'll still be reading messages addressed to the list... good advice to be found here! Ann

Hi Nick, Output resolution for what purpose? Not sure which setting you are talking about but resolution required depends on the use you plan to make of the image. For a quick useful summary of some of the issues see http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/tipsPictures.asp BTW - I use Paint Shop Pro 7 and am aware that it's probably time to update. You'll find image fixing much improved - and it sounds like you have a much more recent computer - or at least monitor than your software. Cheers, Cathy At 20:30 12/12/2004, you wrote: >Could SKS help,on settings ,output resolution in pixels,what number >should I set this at?. Monitor set at 1024 x 768 > >Nick

Could SKS help,on settings ,output resolution in pixels,what number should I set this at?. Monitor set at 1024 x 768 Nick