Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Small Problem, Solved

Normally we scan 99.9999% of our photos on our Kodak s1220 with any odd ones done on our Epson flatbed. Either those that are that bit too big for Kodak or ones that are too small, and normally its the tiddlers that are a problem.

So when I opened a box with a few hundred photos and about 20 sub passport sized prints dropped out I knew I had a problem. You see our Epson packed up and I'm waiting on a spare, and in the absence of the Epson those small pics would hold up the return of the complete batch. Not the best for customer service. Then I had a brainwave ....

I thought maybe, if I attach each small image to an upturned post-it note, it would be big enough to go through the s1220. Then I could open the scans in Photoshop and crop out the surplus yellow background. Amazing, it actually worked. One happy customer, one happy scanner.

Jeff Underwood
1Scan.co.uk
Photo scanning service

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