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RE: [Digital BW] Making b&w contact sheets on a flatbed scanner

2002-03-08 by Austin Franklin

Hi Stephen,

> I have an Epson 836 XL with the transparency
> adapter, and I've had good luck scanning rolls of negatives that have
> been cut in strips and placed in Print File-type holders.  I put that
> right on the glass since it's a lot quicker than loading the strips of
> film into the real holders that came with the scanner,

I have the same scanner, and do the same thing, except I do use a sheet of
glass on top of the Print File pages, to flatten the negatives/page.  I got
the glass off my old Patterson contact printer, and put four rubber bumpers
on it, one on each corner, facing up...so the transparency lid pressed down
on it a bit.  I'm sure a glass shop could cut one the right size, and clean
up the edges...

Austin

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