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Sasman

Tuesday, August 26, 2003 - 01:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I use ad-aware link

Jed245

Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - 06:35 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Hi Squared :o)

Dee ad-aware 6.0 is great, but, there are several other good alternatives just goto www.techtv.com and search for spyware in the search bar. :o)

Donut

Friday, August 29, 2003 - 08:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Help! I am so excited to finally have a scanner but it is wreaking havoc!
The basic problem is that when we scan simple photos or even tiny pics or pen drawings, they are coming up at 3 to 5 MB!! I know that all the jpegs, gifs, etc that i have ever downloaded into my picture file are WAY less than that, like 3 to 50 KB even for animated ones. And I have many photos and video stills on my WEBTV which isnt even really a computer so i KNOW, that those pics are way way less. So the amount of space that the scanned pics are taking up has to be some sort of huge error, doesnt it???

The scanner is an All in One, printer, scanner, copier, HP 1210 and the puter is an HP pavillion laptop.

The ramifications of it(and the long story, if you want it!), are that when i first used the scanner, before i even payed any attention to the size, i emailed my first scanned pic. and the computer went whacky. For days it would not send or recieve email, real player didnt work, the web didnt work, etc. My husband uninstalled the scanner and the problems were still there!, so we figured out that everytime the puter came on it was spending all its energy trying to email the pics which were so huge in space, that they were like 2 to 5x bigger than the email limit!. I thought it was because i enlarged the pics from like 5 inches to around 8 inches, but we now see that even a 2 inch drawing is coming out with huge MB..
So , we deleted the pending email and the puter is ok now. But now that we have reinstalled the scanner, we see what i wrote above.. that the pics are scanning with huge amts of MB. I know that you guys are posting and mailing pics all over the place, so i know the pics should be small enough in KB so i can too that...
THANKS!!

Donut

Friday, August 29, 2003 - 09:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
oh also, the laptop keeps saying that the scanner is disconnected. My husband says the answer to that should be at the HP site, and that it is probably something to do with incompatibility with our Windows ME, but i figure i would throw that out here too. Actually he just noticed that it might only do it when the scanner is turned off, so it might be that simple!

Jed245

Saturday, August 30, 2003 - 02:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Well Donut I'm not a big scanner guy, but, I'll try to help. Did you try looking in the options when you scan a pic? There should be an option somewhere that lets you choose to save the file as a .bmp .gif or .jpg. If you see those options choose save file as .jpg. You might also want to try clicking on a pic you've scanned and looking at the properties to see if it is "image.bmp"


Not sure what software came with your scanner or of the interface, but, I'm sure there's an option there somewhere to save as .bmp or .jpg. Find that option and you should be cooking with gas. :o)


Jed.

Juju2bigdog

Saturday, August 30, 2003 - 08:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Donut, don't have time to answer now, but I think that is very common. Got to go out for the day, but if somebody doesn't answer, nag me in my folder and I'll come back. Has to do with scanning as .bmp's as Jed said, and you need to resize and save as .jpg's.

Draheid

Saturday, August 30, 2003 - 11:20 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Donut: Your scanner has the ability to scan at very high resolution (600 x 2400 dpi) which can create huge files when you scan even a small picture. This is great for when you want to print the image but doesn't work well for posting on the internet or sharing via e-mail. To give you a perspective, most images on the net are created with a resolution of only 75 dpi (dots per inch) which gives you a much smaller file that is readily viewed on your screen. You can not get a very good quality print though as there isn't enough detail to really print out.

My suggestion would be to set the scanner to a much lower resolution if you intend to post it online or e-mail it. (unless of course you are e-mailing to someone who will want to print a good quality image). And to save as .jpg so that you can take advantage of image compression which is what jpg is most useful for.

Please let me know if this is confusing and I will try to elaborate a little more for you.

Hope this helps.

Juju2bigdog

Saturday, August 30, 2003 - 05:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Donut, usually what I do when I scan a photo is immediately go work on it in a photo-editing program. You probably got some sort of photo-editing program that came with your scanner. Poke around with that a bit. In fact, you most likely can scan from within that program. The magic word you are looking for to scan is TWAIN. I have no idea why scanning is called TWAIN, but it is. Adobe Photoshop 5.0 LE came with my scanner, and I like it a lot. To scan a photo from withing Adobe Photoshop, I hit File, then Import, then TWAIN. And it brings up my scan options. Then I scan the photo and work on it in Adobe. You might want to re-size it, or adjust the colors or contrast, or simply use auto-touchup. Then when you have it like you want it, hit File, and Save As. Save it in My Pictures (which I keep on my desktop) as a .jpg in low resolution. These are options that will come up as you are saving the photo.

Zachsmom

Saturday, August 30, 2003 - 06:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP

Quote:

I have no idea why scanning is called TWAIN, but it is.





The word TWAIN is from Kipling's "The Ballad of East and West" - "...and never the twain shall meet...", reflecting the difficulty, at the time, of connecting scanners and personal computers. It was up-cased to TWAIN to make it more distinctive.

Tera

Saturday, August 30, 2003 - 06:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have my fingers crossed that someone here can help me with networking.

My goal is to allow a 2nd computer in my home to use the printer that is directly connected to my "main" computer.

I am using a Linksys router to connect both computers through a cable modem. Information for the router says I should be able to share my printer, but me being somewhat hardware ignorant, I am unable to figure out how to do this.

A little more information. My “main” computer (computer 1) is running Windows XP. Computer 2 is running Windows ME. This is a non-wireless router.

If anybody out there can give me some easy to follow directions, I will be forever grateful.

Zachsmom

Saturday, August 30, 2003 - 07:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I don't use XP or ME, but perhaps I can help. Go to "Start"-->"Setting"-->"Printers" and click on printers

Select your printer and right click. Go down to "properties" and click. You should be presented with a tab that says "sharing". Click "Shared as" (or something like that) and give it a name.

Also, you need to install the printer driver on the ME computer and computer 2 will only be able to use the printer when computer 1 is turned on!

Zachsmom

Saturday, August 30, 2003 - 08:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Tera, forgot another step! LOL I am such a dunce!

Okay, now on computer 2 go back to Start"-->"Setting"-->"Printers" and click on printers. You should see an icon that says "add printer" click on that and you should be presented with a "Wizard" click next and when it says something like "local" or "Network" choose "Network"..click next and then it will have you either type in the printer path or click next to browse..click next to browse. You should be then presented with all the printers on your "network" click the printer from Computer 1...from there you can finish the wizard.

Tera

Saturday, August 30, 2003 - 09:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Zachsmom- IT WORKED! Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I bow down to your superior intellect and easy to follow directions yay

Draheid

Saturday, August 30, 2003 - 10:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
FYI - The acronym TWAIN does have a meaning:
Technology Without An Interesting Name<--see this article at Byte.com.

Zachsmom

Saturday, August 30, 2003 - 10:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
YAY Tera!!! whew! I am glad it worked!

Juju2bigdog

Saturday, August 30, 2003 - 10:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Obviously we are not posting in this thread often enough, since two of you had to explain TWAIN. I will try to have some more problems.

Babyruth

Sunday, August 31, 2003 - 02:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
This isn't about Amtwak twains?

Twinkie

Sunday, August 31, 2003 - 05:05 am EditMoveDeleteIP
ROFL @ Baby!!!!!

Juju2bigdog

Sunday, August 31, 2003 - 10:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Of course YOU would think it is funny, Trinkie.

Kealoha

Sunday, August 31, 2003 - 02:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have a question similar to the one posted by Tera above. I would like to be able to print from computer #2 which is connected to computer #1 through a wireless router. However when following Zachsmoms instructions I can't find a tab that refers to "sharing" within my printers properties. I'm lost. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Zachsmom

Sunday, August 31, 2003 - 02:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
what operating system are you using?

Kealoha

Sunday, August 31, 2003 - 02:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wow Zachsmom you are fast!
My main computer is windows 98, and the new one is a laptop with windows XP.

Zachsmom

Sunday, August 31, 2003 - 02:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I am going to reboot to 98 then I'll have alook.

Kealoha

Sunday, August 31, 2003 - 02:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This is what I see under properties.

printer

Zachsmom

Sunday, August 31, 2003 - 02:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
okay, I am on 98 now. When I do start-->setting-->printers--> and right click on my printer I do see a sharing option.