Guys...I REALLY need some help with my new Scanner got for Christmas!

jeff8877 · December 27, 2009 3:24AM

Hi everyone,

Here is the situation...

Got a new Epson V300 Photo for Christmas since the literature says it will recognize multiple items on the flatbed and scan into indivdual images. I can only get it to recognize one image when placing four cards on the flatbed. I dont want to have to manually crop each image as this was the whole reason for getting this scanner.

Any and all advice would be appreciated as I am going blind reading after two days trying to figure this out...

Thanks Much

Jeff

123Slider · December 27, 2009 3:34AM

Only thing I know to try is to get the cards as far apart as possible. If they are touching sometimes it will recognize it as one image.

I would also try cards that are totally different. Like a 71 topps and a 56 topps. Sometimes it seems to help.

Dboneesq · December 27, 2009 4:09AM

Jeff,

I have had this scanner for almost one year and didn't know you could do that! LOL

Doug

PS The scanner makes AWESOME scans!

zep33 · December 27, 2009 4:13AM

Is it supposed to leave borders around each item it detects or crop it right up to the border of the item? Or is is that feature adjustable?

I use the auto crop feature in Photoshop but could never find any option to leave a half inch or so border around each card so all the corners will be visible

Bigjohn69 · December 27, 2009 4:23AM

my scanner has a dot dot dot box with lil tiny black boxes on 8 points around it, all you do is click and drag one of the black boxes to surround what you want scanned,,,, bj

jimq112 · December 27, 2009 4:55AM

on my epson 4490, I use preview and then click the left side of my mouse, and drag a line all the way around the card. Then hit scan. It scans only the one card I surrounded.

Hope that works for yours!

jeffcbay · December 27, 2009 5:37AM

I just ordered the Epson v300 yesterday on BestBuy.com, so I'll have to let you know how it goes.

If you can, please post an example of a scanned PSA card. I'm dying to see what it will look like compared to my current scanner.

Also, so you're telling me if I place four cards on the scanner, it will crop each one automatically? That would ROCK, because I'm planning on re-scanning all 400 PSA Ripkens in my collection, and an auto-crop would help a TON.

jeff8877 · December 27, 2009 5:42AM

jeffcbay,

It is supposed to do what you say when you look at the manual. Problem is it just draws one line around all four cards even when leaving a space between them. I am thinking it might not work as advertised because the PSA slabs are opaque and the scanner doesnt recognize the edges of the cases. I will be really bummed if I cant get this to work.

I remember reading a while back in one of the posts that a "member" had figured out how to do this but cant seem to find it anywhere.

Jeff

jeff8877 · December 27, 2009 6:03AM

Here is a pic using 'full auto" mode with no adjustments. Quality isnt the issue though for me.

Jeff

jeffcbay · December 27, 2009 6:09AM

I can dig it, MUCH better than the scanner I currently use. Good luck figuring out your auto-crop, I'll be keeping track of this thread. Thank you for taking the time out to post a pic!

gotsparks09 · December 27, 2009 7:10AM

I have the same scanner...I usually scan 2-3 cards at a time and it has never separated them all like what you're looking for...but I have noticed if you scan just one card, it will automatically crop it for you pretty well (though you may need to do a little "crop touch up" most of the time). edited to add: this auto-cropping only works with a single card and the lid closed.

jeffcbay · December 27, 2009 10:04AM

Those of you with the Epson v300, do you know if a Windows 7 driver is available? I only see one for Vista. That might be a problem...

OAKESY25 · December 27, 2009 10:18AM

beautiful scan

kmnorton · December 27, 2009 10:25AM

Jeff, also, if it wouldn't be too much trouble, could you please e-mail the setup file to me? I had to erase my hard disk and have this printer. It used to work great and now I can only get the basic setup from the web. If I recall, the CD setup was much more robust.

Thanks and good luck. It is a great scanner.

Kurt

jeff8877 · December 27, 2009 2:41PM

Anyone else with experience or ideas relative to scanning multiple slabs at once...thanks much.

Jeff

Griffins · December 28, 2009 12:44AM

If you have photoshop you can gang scan a group of cards and it will automatically crop each one individually.
Jeff- run a bit of unsharp mask on that (sharpening) and it will look even better.

Here is a link to a thread about this from last summer

edited to add link

bking · December 28, 2009 12:53AM

Personally, I hate all the autocrop options I've run across on the 4-5 different scanners I've used. I prefer to leave a decent border around each card, as nothing screams "he's hiding bad corners" more than seeing a card image that's trimmed right up to the card edge. I scan the whole platen of cards, then crop each one in my image editor. It really doesn't take very long, and allows me to get the right spacing that auto crop won't give me.

NOTE: I also scan with a high-contrast background instead of just using the platen. For example, when I scan light colored cards l always use a black folder as a background. Again, I like to show what the edges really look like instead of having them blend into the background, and not using the platen lid as the background tends to defeat autocrop.

bking · December 28, 2009 12:54AM

<< <i>Those of you with the Epson v300, do you know if a Windows 7 driver is available? I only see one for Vista. That might be a problem...

>>

Most Vista drivers work in Windows 7.

jeffcbay · December 28, 2009 12:57AM

I think most of us are talking about using an auto-crop feature for slabbed cards. If scanning a raw card, I would always leave a border around the card to show edge contrast.

I DL'd the Vista driver for my current Canon scanner, and it didn't work on my Windows 7. I'll have to see how the v300 works once I get it in the mail next week.

bking · December 28, 2009 1:04AM

<< <i>I think most of us are talking about using an auto-crop feature for slabbed cards. If scanning a raw card, I would always leave a border around the card to show edge contrast.

I DL'd the Vista driver for my current Canon scanner, and it didn't work on my Windows 7. I'll have to see how the v300 works once I get it in the mail next week. >>

Yeah, I started to add an addendum that I could see using autocrop on slabs. Although I still like to use a high-contrast background.

Off about the drivers. 90% of the items I run across don't even rework their drivers for w7.

jeffcbay · January 5, 2010 11:28AM

I finally got my Epson Perfection v300 in the mail from Best Buy today. Out of the box, the speed and quality is INSANE! The one question I have is, have you figured out how to eliminate the vertical "light lines" around the edges of the slabs? I'm not sure how else to describe it. Can you see the light reflections? Not sure how to avoid that, or if I should even care.

jeff8877 · January 5, 2010 12:21PM

Nice scans jeffcbay...I ended up returning mine because it would not do multi slab scans as advertised and separate into separate images. Your scans are very nice.

Jeff

Guys...I REALLY need some help with my new Scanner got for Christmas!

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