Re: Epson Perfection 4870 HELP please

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:34:12 -0400, Rosemary staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
>>>Until yesterday, the scanner worked great. I noticed a red blinking
>>>light, and it has been hit and miss on scanning film, mostly miss
>>>now. Even though the preview sometimes looks OK, when I scan I get
>>>all black.
>> Mine does this occasionally. It seems to be due to the scanner not
>> being able to read the calibration marks at the top of the
>> transparency holder.
>>
>> Wipe the underside of the holder (where the white squares are), the
>> scanner glass and the lid-glass at the rear part of the scanner
>> thoroughly, and see if that makes the problem go away. It does for
> Can we send picture files to [the] [news]group? I can then show the
> results of what the [scanner] does.

It is considered very, very rude to send encoded binaries to newsgroups
that don't have "binaries" in their names. If you have some images
you'd like people to look at, take those images, post them to your
webspace, and follow up with a URL that points to where you posted them.

Most ISPs provide their customers with 5-10M of webspace. Check your
ISP's documentation for directions on how to upload stuff to that space.
Once you've uploaded things, other people should be able to access them
with URLs like http://my.isp.com/~username/filename.jpg . Replace
my.isp.com with the URL of your ISP, replace username with the username
you use at your ISP, replace filename.jpg with the name of the file(s)
you uploaded.

If you don't *have* webspace, you should probably ask if people would
mind receiving large attachments via e-mail. A couple of people will
probably then contact you off-group and say they wouldn't mind, and then
those people will look at the images you send them. Maybe they'll be
able to see something useful, maybe not. Me, I think your scanner's
just suffered some sort of hardware failure that's difficult or
impossible to repair, but ICBW. HTH anyway,

--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today -- I think he's from the CIA.
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