Vusescan HP Photosmart problem

[Señor Sleaze]

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!

 

[Charlie]

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!

I have a few older versions of Vuescan, if you can remember which
version "worked" right. Email me at this address if you want to try
one....

charliehoffp at yahoo dot com


Charlie Hoffpauir
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/

 

[Señor Sleaze]

Thanks, but I found version 8.0.9, installed it, and it works
perfectly.

The proper thing that pahhens is that that when I batch scan a 5 image
strip, the entire strip is fed into the scanner, and then it works its
way out, scanning one frame at a time.

In version 8.0.13, it starts scanning at the front end of the strip,
and keeps scanning that frame over and over for the count of 5.

Another thing, CTRL-J doesn't eject the negative strip form the
scanner in version 13, but it does (as it's supposed to) in version 9.
In 8.0.13, the scanner would occasionally go into a continous eject
loup, which I could only stop by opening the lid.

I think there is definitely a bug in 8.0.13 with the HP Photosmart
scanner!

 

[Charlie]

Thanks, but I found version 8.0.9, installed it, and it works
perfectly.

The proper thing that pahhens is that that when I batch scan a 5 image
strip, the entire strip is fed into the scanner, and then it works its
way out, scanning one frame at a time.

In version 8.0.13, it starts scanning at the front end of the strip,
and keeps scanning that frame over and over for the count of 5.

Another thing, CTRL-J doesn't eject the negative strip form the
scanner in version 13, but it does (as it's supposed to) in version 9.
In 8.0.13, the scanner would occasionally go into a continous eject
loup, which I could only stop by opening the lid.

I think there is definitely a bug in 8.0.13 with the HP Photosmart
scanner!

I can only suggest that you send all those facts to Ed so he can
figure out what changed, and how to change it back. Check out the
problem report at http://www.hamrick.com/sup.html

By the way, Ed's on vacation until Sept 6, so don't expect a "Quick"
solution. I'm sure he'll have a backlog to deal with.

Charlie Hoffpauir
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/

 

[Rich Pos]

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?

I use 7.1.18 with HP-S10 and it works great.
If you need a copy let me know at 'that_rich at yahoo'.

I think if you turned on the preview and adjusted the crop box the
skewed crops would go away. Also, there is a checkbox to scan on the
way in or on the way out.

Good luck,

RP©

 

[Señor Sleaze]

Thanks, but version 8.0.9 works OK. It bothers me that now I'm going
to have to keep two copies of vuescan on my machine.

I'll have to repost this after Sept 6 for Ed's benefit (or perhaps
fill out that report thingy on his site)