Large Image Scanning

One of the s1220 features I took a long time to appreciate is its ability to automatically crop images neatly from photos fed in at an angle. I've got into the habit of allowing some "wiggle room" when loading stacks of photos. For small to medium sized originals I've been very pleased with the results of scanning in this way, letting Kodaks software trim the images.

Today I was faced with a massive pile of monochrome images, just under A4 sized. They'd been stored in a large, deep box. They were glossy prints so they'd almost become fused into one lump, no way the hopper was going to be able to handle those. So I was concentrating on splitting the stack and making sure they fed into the scanner. After about an hour I had completed the first batch. Oh dear, very poor result.

I had set the feed guides quite wide and just dropped the photos in as they came to hand, with some "wiggle room". Unfortunately the scanner had done a relatively poor job with the edges of the images, giving a jagged edge rather than a smooth finish. So it was back to square one, this time setting the guides tight. Thankfully the scanner ran through the photos at a great rate, each one with a sharp edge. One happy scanner.