Vusescan 8.013 and HP Photosmart problem REPEAT POST

I use an old first version HP photosmart scanner for making contact
sheets of my negatives. I find it much faster and simpler than using
my newer Minolta Dual Scan II for that purpose only.

I'm using vuescan 8.0.13 and find that my old ini file I had created
just for this purpose doesn't seem to work any longer. I had set it
up so that it would batch scan with the batch setting set to 1-5 and
the options set tso that preview was disabled, to speed things up. In
previous versions (unfortunately I haven't scanned film in awhile, and
I don't recall the version no. of vuescan when I last successfully did
this) the process worked very well. I would just feed in each strip,
walk away, and each frame would be scanned almost perfectly.
Occasionally a frame might be cropped not quite right, but for my
purposes (using ACDSee to make a contact sheet of all the 600dpi
images) this was OK.

Now, the scanner reads in the first frame, crops it really badly, and
the proceeds to rescan the same frame 4 more times. The subsequent 4
frames are cropped properly.

Any suggestions?

TIA!

On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 12:43:51 -0400, Señor Sleaze <nothing@fake.com>
wrote:

>I use an old first version HP photosmart scanner for making contact
>sheets of my negatives. I find it much faster and simpler than using
>my newer Minolta Dual Scan II for that purpose only.
>
>I'm using vuescan 8.0.13 and find that my old ini file I had created
>just for this purpose doesn't seem to work any longer. I had set it
>up so that it would batch scan with the batch setting set to 1-5 and
>the options set tso that preview was disabled, to speed things up. In
>previous versions (unfortunately I haven't scanned film in awhile, and
>I don't recall the version no. of vuescan when I last successfully did
>this) the process worked very well. I would just feed in each strip,
>walk away, and each frame would be scanned almost perfectly.
>Occasionally a frame might be cropped not quite right, but for my
>purposes (using ACDSee to make a contact sheet of all the 600dpi
>images) this was OK.
>
>Now, the scanner reads in the first frame, crops it really badly, and
>the proceeds to rescan the same frame 4 more times. The subsequent 4
>frames are cropped properly.
>
>Any suggestions?

Do you have vuescan checked to 'auto' crop and crop size set to
'auto'?

Just a thought.

RP©

"Señor Sleaze" <nothing@fake.com> wrote in message
news:08prj09uuj8lbh8qch7d3ssee66vmvgssn@4ax.com...
> I use an old first version HP photosmart scanner for making contact
> sheets of my negatives. I find it much faster and simpler than using
> my newer Minolta Dual Scan II for that purpose only.
>
> I'm using vuescan 8.0.13 and find that my old ini file I had created
> just for this purpose doesn't seem to work any longer. I had set it
> up so that it would batch scan with the batch setting set to 1-5 and
> the options set tso that preview was disabled, to speed things up. In
> previous versions (unfortunately I haven't scanned film in awhile, and
> I don't recall the version no. of vuescan when I last successfully did
> this) the process worked very well. I would just feed in each strip,
> walk away, and each frame would be scanned almost perfectly.
> Occasionally a frame might be cropped not quite right, but for my
> purposes (using ACDSee to make a contact sheet of all the 600dpi
> images) this was OK.
>
> Now, the scanner reads in the first frame, crops it really badly, and
> the proceeds to rescan the same frame 4 more times. The subsequent 4
> frames are cropped properly.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> TIA!

Hi, I just want to confirm that there is the real problem with HP S20
and Vuescan. It actually appeared in 8.0.11 (8.0.10 was simply broken
and did not work with S20 at all.) Here is the link to the article where
this problem was already reported:

http://groups.google.com/groups?th=...nford.EDU#link4

Andy.