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Scanner & Scanning Software Question

2005-03-11 by David Neely

I teach at a Vocational High School in the Phoenix area and we recently
received an Epson 4870 scanner and the bundled SilverFast Ai software.

I have not been able to get even close to a decent scan with the SilverFast
software but have had great success with the Epson scanning software which
has produced excellent scans and is very easy to use.

With SilverFast I must be doing something very wrong but for the life of me
I can't figure out what. All the scans come out black when loaded into
Photoshop. Could someone please give me some help with this, point me to
some online info about this combo of scanner and software because the
instructions are not detailed or much help. I know most people feel that the
SilverFast software is top notch but so far I am lost.

Any comments, advice or directions would be very much appreciated.

David Neely
Photo Imaging
Metro Tech H.S.
www.davidneelyphoto.com 

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Re: Scanner & Scanning Software Question

2005-03-12 by lulalake_1999

David,
Come on over to the Epson 4870 group, thete is quite a lot of info 
and discussion there.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/epson4870

Cheers

Jules



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "David Neely" 
<dneely3@m...> wrote:
> 
> I teach at a Vocational High School in the Phoenix area and we 
recently
> received an Epson 4870 scanner and the bundled SilverFast Ai 
software.
> 
> I have not been able to get even close to a decent scan with the 
SilverFast
> software but have had great success with the Epson scanning 
software which
> has produced excellent scans and is very easy to use.
> 
> With SilverFast I must be doing something very wrong but for the 
life of me
> I can't figure out what. All the scans come out black when loaded 
into
> Photoshop. Could someone please give me some help with this, point 
me to
> some online info about this combo of scanner and software because 
the
> instructions are not detailed or much help. I know most people feel 
that the
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> SilverFast software is top notch but so far I am lost.
> 
> Any comments, advice or directions would be very much appreciated.
> 
> David Neely
> Photo Imaging
> Metro Tech H.S.
> www.davidneelyphoto.com 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

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