Help with PS7.0 and HP 4c scanner

[John Scribner]

I have an OLD HP 4c, SCSI, scanner that is still chugging along, or has been up until today! I scanned a photo into PS7 in portrait mode from the 4c. When it arrived in PS7.0, it was in landscape! Yikes! I scanned the same photo with just the scanner software and saved as a TIF file...brought it into PS7.0, and it came in portrait as expected. I re-installed the scanner software and PS7.0....didn't help! I'm stuck. Any one have any ideas? THIA

Aloha from the Big Island :0)

John Scribner

[Mac McDougald]

Using DeskScan 2.9?
Pretty bizarre.
Since DS doesn't even have a rotation option, I have no idea why it would
do that with TWAIN but not stand alone.

On the other hand, if the scan is good, I'd just maybe live with rotating
it in PS or doing it in the way you mentioned as standalone and then
open.

I still run an indestructable IIcx, which is quite a bit older! And still
plenty good enough for most of my flat copy needs.

Mac

[Ho]

If you think it's a driver problem, try ViewScan. The demo is available at

<http://www.hamrick.com/>

I would have thrown out my 4c a couple of years ago if not for this software. Among its many good qualities is the fact that it is NOT a twain interface so you can scan and edit at the same time.

[Thee_DarkOverLord]

twain

Technology without an interesting name.

[Mac McDougald]

> twain

>
> Technology without an interesting name.

Actually, that's tech urban myth.
Comes from "...and never the twain shall meet".
This according to official USB consortium.

Mac

[John Scribner]

Mac ... Thanks for the reply. I'm sorry I think I misled you in my description of the problem. When the scan come into PS, it has the dimensions reversed, heigth comes in as width, but the picture stays the way it should and is distorted. I'll check if I can get DS 2.9 as I'm using 2.8 on an old WIN machine running W98. I know, I know, it's just a matter of budget right now! Thanks again.

Ho ... Thanks for the info. I'll check it out.

Aloha,

John

[John Scribner]

Mac Downloaded the DS2.9 driver "stuff" from HP, and it fixed the problem! Thanks for the input, I guess I didn't think HP would still have driver "stuff" around for the old scanners. YEA for HP. Thanks agian. My original problem occured with every "print path" type tried, but I did find the "standard FAX print path" in the DS 2.9 to have the DPI resolutions (both horizontal and vertical)to be different sizes, i.e., horiz. 200 DPI and vert. 100 DPI. This was the only "print path" to deliver the strange problem I was having. I changed the horiz. and vert. DPI's to be the same size, it worked. Sorry to ramble on, but it might help someone else in the future.

Aloha,

John

[Martin Smith]

What version of Windows are you using. I use a 4c with SCSI on Windows XP and Deskscan 2.9 without problems.

When I first installed XP it put a generic scan software that worked, but then I noticed that histograms were compressed and that I wasn't getting as good color as I had before. After installing Deskscan 2.9 everything went back to normal.

[John Scribner]

Martin,

Thanks for the input! I'm on Win 98 for now, as if I upgrade to XP I will have to buy another SCSI card or scrap my old 4c. The scanner has worked ok until just recently, but the DS 2.9 seems to have fixed my immediate problem. Thanks again!

John

[Mac McDougald]

Glad it all worked out, John.
Great old scanner.

The original SCSI series through maybe the 5 or 6 were the last of the
good HP scanners. Junk anymore. I never recommend HP scanners now.

Mac

[Thee_DarkOverLord]

This according to official USB consortium.




Bunch of philistines ;-)