Fujitsu ScanSnap and Glossy Photos

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I'm trying to get my life in order and have been busy scanning in both documents and photos to get them into a digital format for both storage and organisation.  But I've been having all kinds of problems with scanning glossy photos, which we have an awful lot of here at home.

I've searched on the web for some kind of solution and all I've been able to find is that I should use a carrier sheet to cut the glare.  That is up until today.

I found a comment to a post on FixYa from a user named blwong2 who had the following to help out:

I just talked to a Fujitsu tech guy. The yellow streak if from the light bouncing off the glossiness of the paper. He said to scan it face up. That resolves the problem but adds another. To scan the photo face side up the settings have to be on "Duplex Scan" then because there are fine little numbers on the back of the photo from the photo processor, the scanner scans that side and does not auto delete it as a blank page. So then I have to go and manually delete all the blank photos in my iPhoto. I guess once I do all my glossy photos, I won't have to worry about this too much in the future. I am happy now and back to scanning!

Thanks BLWong2, you got things back on track for me.  Amazing what a little support call can do when you don't have Google eh?

Hey y'all!

Looks different eh?  Finally got around to pointing the domain at the new site.  Not much on here at the moment but I'm busy scanning pictures, converting videos, and trying to import the old site.  

It's not that I hated the old hosts or anything, it's just that it wasn't really what I wanted and it didn't make much sense to pay for two different services when I wasn't really using either.  And I found I wasn't posting on one because nothing was pointing there.  Classic catch-22 for a nerd I guess.

Anyway, that's all done now and I'll see if I can get everything up to date before too long.  Wish me luck!

Once again...

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Okay, I know it's been a while but there's been a bunch going on in our lives.  So I'm going to have another shot at this.  Can't promise it'll be always up to date, but I'm going to try and get things back on here and consolidate our web stuff.  ​

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So what can you look forward to?  All the same infrequent updating, rants, pictures of stuff I have, stuff I want, Alex's thoughts (when I can coax them out of him) and much, much more.  Plus I'll try and keep all the pictures up here instead of on a bunch of different sites.  We'll see how it works out.​