Person in Zoom meeting asked how to deal with dead pixels on an iMac screen, iMac concerned is 3 years old. She said they were dead pixels & not spots on the screen. One chap suggested massaging it, but I said that was pointless because the display itself is behind glass & won't respond to such manipulation. He agreed & apologised for leading the complainant off on a tangent.
She answered that the first ‘dead pixel’was gone after rubbing it with a moistened microfibre cloth. As it happens, all of the alleged ‘dead pixels’ were stubborn spots on the screen!
New scanner is an interesting beast. It’s limited to 600 dpi for scans using the Canon software, but can go up to 4800 dpi via Image Capture/VueScan. The latter makes for a very slow scan, though.
For scanning photos, 600 is fine.
Open scanning app, set parameters for Document, Photo or Custom scan, insert media & hit the Auto button in the app.
An overview scan is commenced, taking up to approx 30 seconds. Then it does the actual scan in about 3 seconds & I estimate another ½ second to send the scan to the Mac. Not impossible to scan 4 photos in 30 seconds (plus time taken to load the pics).
Power in & data out are handled by a USB-C cable, so no external power is needed.
Multi-page PDFs are easy to set up & it automatically recognises individual photos.
Impressed with the speed compared to the old Epson V300 from 2008.
@whoisashygirl It was only out for about 90 minutes, but I was panicking a bit. I’m the President of a Men’s shed group & also the IT person. Three of the shed’s four email accts ae with Google & Mail kept asking for authentication which couldn’t be completed.
I tried YouTube in incognito mode to get some joy out of the situation.
Photo scanning job will be easier shortly, Canon LiDE 400 scanner is out for delivery via Amazon today. While it can’t do film/transparencies (which the old Epson V300 can, albeit slowly) it is an extremely fast photo scanner.
@matigo Probably not. Likely I’ll use OneDrive, I have over 200 GB available there.
Got a big job over the next few weeks: scan a lot of Mum’s photos to a computer. I’ve worked out that a new scanner (Canon Lide 400) will be much faster for photo scanning than my current 2008-model Epson V300 scanner.
Plus the Canon connects both data & power via USB-C. I happen to have a spare 250 GB ext SSD that can be used as storage for the project.
@streakmachine Unwise to crush the Vitamin D tablets I take: tey’re actually liquid-filled capsules. That could be quite nasty.
Got a nice dose of proper (unfiltered by window glass) sun on Sunday* when the Residential Corporation chairman came over for a chat.
- might be why it’s called Sunday…
// @matigo
