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From what you have written you are using Direct CD
and trying to drop a scan straight out of the scanner to the CD (presumably CD
R/W). I think your problem is that the scanner is far too slow for the CD
recorder.
As suggested already you should scan to your hard
drive and then copy to the CD. I would suggest that you create a directory on
your hard drive and scan everything into it. When you have just under 650MB of
files in the directory save the whole lot to a CD-R (not R/W) using Adaptec Easy
CD Creator (I use Nero so I don't know a lot about Easy CD). Once you know you
have checked the CD has been created correctly delete the contents of the
directory.
It's best generally to use CD-R as they are
generally more reliable than CD-RW and they are cheaper too. I only use CD-RW
for temporary file storage (eg. to move some files to another machine). If you
use Direct CD you lose 15-20% of the potential storage area - I never bother
even when using CD-RW I save using the equivalent of Easy CD Creator and erase
before reuse.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 1:32
PM
Subject: filmscanners: CD from
Scanner
I am just starting to
get into digital imaging. Computers to me are not
intuitive (to put
it mildly) and I am not being modest.
I am trying to create CDs
from images on my flatbed scanner (Epson 1200U) to
the CD. I follow
the steps but I am unable to read the result. I have a
Dell computer
with Windows Me, 256 mg of RAM, a CD ROM bay and a CD RW bay,
and
an Adaptec CD writer system that came with the computer.
I called Dell
and I received that did not seem right to me, so I am hoping I
can get
some other thoughts.
What I was told is that the Adaptec does not do
well copying from the scanner
and that my best procedure with the
Adaptec software was to copy to the hard
drive and then copy to the CD.
It was also suggested that I might acquire
another CD burner
software that would do a better job.
It seems to me that the
whole idea of CD burning is to avoid having to fill
up the hard drive with
images. I realize that I could erase the image, but
the procedure of
copying to HD then to CD and then erasing the image on the
HD seems very
cumbersome.
The tech also suggested a ZIP drive. I thought the
purpose of the CD was to
avoid having to get a ZIP drive.
I would
appreciate any thoughts on this subject.
Thanks in advance.
Burt
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