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Subject: Re: [Leica] Totally off topic.... Polaroid scanner
From: Ernest Nitka <enitka@twcny.rr.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 09:18:34 -0500
References: <0FC6A239-63E5-11D7-98FC-0003936D5D4A@twcny.rr.com>

Ted - this sounds bad.  When I had the SS 4000 I would get this 
occasionally but not like your describe.  This is made more depressing by 
virtue of this repeatedly happening on replacement units.  May she RIP --- 
Hello new scanner is all I can advise.

ernie

At 07:00 PM 3/31/03 -0800, you wrote:
>Ernest Nitka asked: >>>> Ted - what was the problem with your SS 4000/<<<
>
>Hi Ernie,
>Well it stops in-between the, " to be scanned number selected and the next
>frame," this is an almost constant problem. It scans the wrong negative
>selected.... I want Number 2 it scans #3 or a blank space.
>
>I shut the scanner down, the computer down and restart everything including
>Photoshop and the same thing will occur three, four times in a row, then the
>fifth time it'll work OK.
>
>Now this problem isn't just with this new machine replacement, it happened
>with two other replacement machines, a new first purchase, a replacement
>while Polaroid tried to figure out what was happening, now the "new
>re-placement for the new purchased" machine. Only right now this one is the
>worst of the three.
>
>For every neg. I require scanning, I have to start the computer, Photoshop
>and the Polaroid soft ware and scanner to maybe get one neg. scanned. And
>with about 150 to do at the moment, I'm sure you can appreciate my utter
>frustration with this Mickey mouse piece of gear.
>
>Surely there's a scanner that I can buy, use it for a few years and it'll go
>without any screw-ups! Sure I realize there's always the human factor in any
>man made machine, but really ?  Three scanners in a row having the same
>problem?
>
>Look, I'm wide open to maybe it's me!!!!!! Maybe I'm doing something wrong,
>however when I do get it working OK I get excellent scans of very high
>quality. It's just the damn inconsistency of operation that's killing me!
>:-(
>
>If anyone has any suggestions please send them along, as at the moment this
>situation is driving me to drink and buying another manufacturers scanner!
>
>ted
>
>
>
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