"DoN. Nichols" wrote in message
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According to Glenn :

"DoN. Nichols" wrote in message

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I may get a hair
to
play with the scanner more and see how nice I can make it. The scanner
lives on the wife's machine so I have to schedual time to use it May
have to go buy one for me too just so I can figure out how to do it right
the first time.

What kind of scanner does she have?

It is an LIDE 80 I believe from Cannon. It has the Negative/Slide adapter
and that was the main selling point. She has lots of old slides and
negative she wanted to scan and print. Some required a bit of restoring to
get the colors back. Most scans I have done from the negatives come out
better than the ones from the original prints

I find an old HP ScanJet II (color) works very nicely for this.
I've got a SCSI adaptor on the computer, and the HP software lets me
scan to TIFF with pure B&W -- and adjusting the threshold between black
and white to tune it to drop most light stains and smudges. Once I have
the scans made, they get moved to one of the unix machines, and
combined, turned into PostScript, and from there into PDF -- all using
unix tools -- not Adobe ones.

I've got a spare ScanJet II (one from hamfest, the other from
eBay -- both really cheap), so some of these days I will try the various
unix scanning software to see what will work better for me, and keep me
clear of that Windows machine except for on income tax prepration day. :-)

I had a Scanjet fo awhile but the scuzzi , adapter gave me fits and I
scraped that.

Enjoy,
DoN.


P.S. What Time zone are you in? It is currently 2:36 AM for me, in
EDT -- and I am now going to bed. :-)

Pacific Daylight Time Medford, OR

Glenn