Digital BW, The Print

Austin and Steve (and others),

Thanks for the suggestion. Please forgive my ignorance, I am absolutely new
to scanning anything other than text and printed images.

I did try, last night, scanning negatives in PrintFile pages on an Epson
1240U (which doesn't have a transparency attachment), and the results were
useless. I am gathering that the main problem is that negatives need light
coming through them, and that the tabloid-sized scanner you both use has a
light source in the transparency attachment that allows you to scan
negatives?  And that you use the tabloid scanner because it is large enough
to fit the PrintFile pages underneath the light source?

This scanner appears to be an older model (at least, review articles about
it I found on the web were not recent). Is there a newer replacement model
out?

Thanks again, and sorry for my ignorance.

- David

-----Original Message-----
From: Austin Franklin [mailto:darkroom@...]
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 8:57 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Making b&w contact sheets on a flatbed scanner


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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