Photo scanner?
Mar 28, 2009 | 6:59 pm
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Photo scanner?
Hello all,
Have a question that "Googling it" won't solve easily. We have hundreds if not thousands of photos from pre-digital days, 4X6 and 5X7, that we want scanned in a pile, like sheet-fed.
Anyone know of a scanner that will do that?
Thanks in advance.
Have a question that "Googling it" won't solve easily. We have hundreds if not thousands of photos from pre-digital days, 4X6 and 5X7, that we want scanned in a pile, like sheet-fed.
Anyone know of a scanner that will do that?
Thanks in advance.
Mar 28, 2009 | 10:57 pm
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I don't believe there are any "sheet fed" scanners available to consumers.
Mar 28, 2009 | 11:19 pm
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Check out the websites of the major players (Cannon, Epson, HP, Brother, etc) and look for scanners that have "document feeders" or "sheet feeders". You may have better luck looking at All-In-On/Multi Function devices as many of these include document/sheet feeders and some of the better ones seem to do a good job with photographs.
A word of caution, though. Most photographs are printed on thicker paper stock, and are of a small-ish size and not all feeders can handle them. You may have to take a couple of photographs to the store for testing.
Hope this helps,
Glenn
A word of caution, though. Most photographs are printed on thicker paper stock, and are of a small-ish size and not all feeders can handle them. You may have to take a couple of photographs to the store for testing.
Hope this helps,
Glenn
Mar 30, 2009 | 6:31 am
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If you can't scan the negatives I'd use a service. You can google for them. You send them you pictures in a box and they scan them for you.
My wife scanned thousands of negatives using a Primefilm 36000u scanner. I think we got it at costco. Most came out great and are now in our digital library.
My wife scanned thousands of negatives using a Primefilm 36000u scanner. I think we got it at costco. Most came out great and are now in our digital library.