Re: [Leica] Re: Scanning/Printing

["Dan Post" <dpost@triad.rr.com>]

Jonathan-
    Around here, when someone says- "Whazzzup?!"
The response is,
    "Oh, having a Bud, watching the scanner plod!"
    "True, true!"
I have a 450MHz AMD and 256Meg of RAM and Old Mehatibel still polds along! I
am considering jamming another 256M in her and seeing if that helps!!
I have always had better performance improvement by simply adding more
memory, even when I double the processor speed, doubleing the memory from
128 to 256 made a significantly greater improvement!

I will give to a tip, however, if you are still using the 'virtual' momory-
and it makes iot run a bit faster. In windows 9X, and ME, the virtual memory
on the hard drive can become fragmented and get terribly slow!
If you will first defragment your drive, and get it optimized, then got into
CONTROL PANEL/SYSTEM and click the tab "Performance" and then the panel
marked "Virtual Memory".
Normally you will see the default- that is windows makes the decision about
the amount of disk space used for the virtual memory, and after a while, it
is using severely fragmented space. What you need to do is to tell it that
YOU are setting the virtual memory- if you have two hard drives, pick the
fastest, and set the size of the virtual memory- both minimum and maximum to
the same amount- that amount being about twice the amount of RAM the machine
has- since I hace 256M of RAM, I set the virtual memory to 512M. Since you
have 128M, then you might set yours to 256M or even 384M.
I can tell you that even if I slip and scan a 480Meg image file, I am not
there all afternoon waiting for it to do something!!
Hope it helps!
Dan
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee, Jonathan" <Jonathan.Lee@hrcc.on.ca>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 9:00 PM
Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Scanning/Printing


> I use the new HP PhotoSmart S20.  It specs out at 2400 dpi and is very
> affordable ~$600
> cdn ($400 usd).  I use it sucessfully for Tri-X, TMX100 and Kodachrome 64
up
> to 11x14 size.  For more info check out www.sphoto.com Steve Hoffman's
site
> whcih has reviews on the HP and Nikon scanners . The only drawback with
the
> HP is that it is quite loud on the pre-scan mode and getting neg strips to
> feed in can be a bit tricky.
>
> One thing to consider when you are budgeting for a scanner is to include
> money for computer RAM.  At a minimum put 128 MB in your computer,
otherwise
> you will need to bring a newspaper with you to read while PhotoShop is
> dealing with your images.
>
> Jonathan Lee
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Cooper [mailto:visigoth@well.com]
> Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 12:06 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] Re: Scanning/Printing
>
>
>
> This printer advice is invaluable.  Now, how about affordable scanners?
> Has anyone had experience, good or otherwise, with the Epson 1200U Photo
> as a film scanner?  I know it's thought a great flatbed machine, but I
> want to scan negatives and chromes.
>
> thanks,
>
> Douglas Cooper
>
>
>
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