Re: HP 4C

[Victor Landweber <victor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sam --

Changing resolution is easy. You navigate to Custom > Print Path  where you 
enter resolution numbers for "drawings and halftones" and "photos. Give 
your setting a name and click "add." After that you'll be able to access 
your setting in the drop-down box on the DeskScan II panel under "Path."

Do you have a recent version of the DeskScan software? I use v2.8. I found 
v2.9 less stable with my 4C. Drivers remain available on the HP Web site. I 
find it useful to turn down "saturation" in the Tools > Color Adjustment 
dialog. A setting of 35 seems about right to reduce the over-saturated 
colors of an unadjusted scan.

In my opinion, my 4C does a terrific job of scanning at 300-600 ppi, and 
I've found no reason to replace it. I use dedicated film scanners for film 
so I have very rarely needed to scan any flat art at a resolution greater 
than 600 dpi. The HP software is surprisingly capable and can deliver a 
darn good pre-adjusted scan to Photoshop. VueScan has been useful when I've 
needed a high-bit (30-bit imported as 36-bit) scan or to get raw data for 
scanner-based printer profiling with Profiler RGB.

Several advantages of the HP #C Scanjets are its 8½×14 scan size which I've 
found very useful and that absolutely every piece of imaging software 
includes settings/profiles for them.

-- Victor Landweber


Sam wrote:

>Try as I maight I can find no way to change the scan dpi from 100 on
>this scanner.
>Does anyone have any idea on how to increase the scan for this to get a
>decent print.
>TIA
>Sam


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