how do you clean the scanner bed i have a few finger prints and smears. How do people clean the scanner beds?Also what is a good software to scan with? I want to scan more than one picture at a time. The software that comes with it stinks. how do you clean the scanner bed i have a few finger prints and smears. How do people clean the scanner beds?Also what is a good software to scan with? I want to scan more than one... » Read More how do you clean the scanner bed i have a few finger prints and smears. How do people clean the scanner beds?Also what is a good software to scan with? I want to scan more than one picture at a time. The software that comes with it stinks. « Show Less
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I had the same question. Some of the glue from family albums came onto my scanner. At first I tried Windex. That was a bad idea! It dried into a smear. Luckily, I only did it in a small corner and was able to wipe it away with a dry cloth.A sales guy at Best Buy recommended Monster ScreenClean. It works really well. It only comes in a kit that includes a soft cloth, but the cloth is worth it.The software that comes with it allows it to scan more than one picture at a time. Using CanoScan Toolbox 5.0, I was able to set it so that, with one click, it would scan, separate multiple pictures from a single scan, save the pictures to a specified location, and open them in Photoshop. I had the same question. Some of the glue from family albums came onto my scanner. At first I tried Windex. That was a bad idea! It dried into a smear. Luckily, I only did it in a small corner and was able to wipe it away with a dry cloth.A sales guy at Best Buy recommended Monster ScreenClean. It works really well. It only comes in a kit that includes a soft cloth, but the cloth is worth it.The software that comes with it allows it to scan more than one picture at a time. Using CanoScan Toolbox 5.0, I was able to set it so that, with one click, it would scan,... » Read More I had the same question. Some of the glue from family albums came onto my scanner. At first I tried Windex. That was a bad idea! It dried into a smear. Luckily, I only did it in a small corner and was able to wipe it away with a dry cloth.A sales guy at Best Buy recommended Monster ScreenClean. It works really well. It only comes in a kit that includes a soft cloth, but the cloth is worth it.The software that comes with it allows it to scan more than one picture at a time. Using CanoScan Toolbox 5.0, I was able to set it so that, with one click, it would scan, separate multiple pictures from a single scan, save the pictures to a specified location, and open them in Photoshop. « Show Less
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I received this machine for Christmas and I am having the same problem. I even exchanged the original HP 6310 that I got thinking that it was broken, and the new machine is doing the same thing with images scanned through the autoloader. Have you contacted HP regarding this? I tried and they told me to try cleaning my scanner (which is brand new). I think I'll probably return it.
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There is nothing wrong with the scanner. It is your printer. Set it at a better resolution. Or try wipe the front of cartiage clean.
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I don't know why you are ending up with prints on your mats but that shouldn't be happening ever. I have over 20 mats and none of them have prints on them. I clean mine every day with a swifter and mine still look like brand new. It could be the solution your using to clean them with. You should not use anything strong to clean them with. Gentle soap and water seems to work for me. I have even spilled color on them and they never have had anything that remained after cleaning including prints. Floor cleaner is not recommended. Not to sound redundant, be sure to use nonabrasive cleaning products on the mats. Hope that helps. I don't know why you are ending up with prints on your mats but that shouldn't be happening ever. I have over 20 mats and none of them have prints on them. I clean mine every day with a swifter and mine still look like brand new. It could be the solution your using to clean them with. You should not use anything strong to clean them with. Gentle soap and water seems to work for me. I have even spilled color on them and they never have had anything that remained after cleaning including prints. Floor cleaner is not recommended. Not to sound redundant, be sure to use nonabrasive cleaning... » Read More I don't know why you are ending up with prints on your mats but that shouldn't be happening ever. I have over 20 mats and none of them have prints on them. I clean mine every day with a swifter and mine still look like brand new. It could be the solution your using to clean them with. You should not use anything strong to clean them with. Gentle soap and water seems to work for me. I have even spilled color on them and they never have had anything that remained after cleaning including prints. Floor cleaner is not recommended. Not to sound redundant, be sure to use nonabrasive cleaning products on the mats. Hope that helps. « Show Less
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Yes, one can scan multiple photos at once, provided they all fit on the platen (the glass area under the cover) without overlapping (unless, of course, overlapping images is something that's wanted). Some kind of image editing tool will be needed later, in order to pull the pictures apart into separate files (which is what is usually desired). In some cases (high-resolution scanning), the combined scan of multiple photos will be too big to edit, so scanning them one-at-a-time would be a better approach in that case.
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I can scan multiple photos at one time and it creates separate file for each photo - assuming it is because I leave space between each photograph on the scanning bed.
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You can put multiple photos into the scanner and then choose to scan them all as a whole or you can choose to scan each one separately. But if you do it separately you have to crop it to the photo in the scanning software. It's really easy.
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It doesn't do well with glossy paper/photos. I tried to scan about 50 photos and it would start to skip and make some interesting images. IMHO, you'd want a flatbed scanner for best results.
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You could scan as many documents as would fit on the scanner, but it only scans the glass once, so you would have multiple documents on a single image. You would have to edit it after that in another program to separate them.
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I don't get it? The product description indicates there are 4 cleaning modes....4 cleaning modes (Daily Clean, Deep Clean, Sensitive, and Whitening). Even the instructions tell you how to sequence through the different cleaning modes but it doesn't seem to work. What am I missing here?
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You can try to use Electronics cleaning wipes, or you can ask Staples what you can use, and they will be able to help you out.
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Nope. but you can put several photos on the scanner bed to scan at once. The scanner bed is about 9 in x 14 in.
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I purchased an Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner. It scans slides, pictures and negatives. The scanner takes 4 slides at a time. Worked great. I had about 1500 slides from the 60s. The Kaiser Mini let me sort thru them quickly. Was a great winter project.
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This issue is really most noticeable with photos. I think it is frequently because of dirt, debris, cat hairs in the unit. Most times I can open it up and swipe it clean with a microfiber cloth and resolve the problem. Be careful to not scan staples and such that might scratch the inner bits.
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I have had only good scans from photos. As you probably know you have to have glossy finish photos. Matte finish will give you lots of white and black specks due to the texture of the paper. That applies to any scanner. And of course set your dpi to 300 or greater if you want excellent quality. Epson has an excellent image color and brightness/contrast editing option as well.
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I'm not sure if this answers your question but I run my pictures through on their own, the other stuff is to help keep it clean so it doesn't leave dust or tracks on the photo or the scan... Does that help??
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There are 2 ways.Use the software that came with the printer.Just press the scan button on the printer.