[ILL-L] RE: Scanner vs. copier

Tue Jun 9 16:29:13 EDT 2009

Ed,

We just use a couple of pieces of blank paper to blank out what would be black at the bottom of the page.  As far as I know, there are no settings to change this.  You have to have something that fills up the entire glass to not have some black show up.

Stephen Breedlove
La Salle University Library
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Subject: [ILL-L] Scanner vs. copier

It seems our copier does a better job than our new scanner: if the book
is not flush with the glass, it comes up black in the scanner. Is there
a reason why the scanner would do worse than a copier? Is there a
setting we can change on the scanner? Thanks,

Edward Helmrich
ILL Office
Ryan Library
Iona College VXI
914-633-2352
docdelivery at iona.edu

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[mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Joe Ellison
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 4:17 PM
To: 'Interlibrary Loan Listserv'
Subject: RE: [ILL-L] CONVERTING FILES

I haven't tried this, but perhaps you could use the Microsoft Office
Document Image Writer to print them to a file. A while back someone
posted
the following suggestion to retain color in such documents:

1. Print to MDI using the MS Office Document Image Writer.
2. Document will open in MDI automatically.
3. Select Save As and save to tiff format. This will create a multi-page
tiff that retains color and can be imported into Ariel or Odyssey.

If color isn't important, you can simply use the MS Document Image
Writer to
print to tiff.

If you have any of the available PDF print utilities (such as Cute PDF
or
Adobe PDF Writer) you can print to PDF, but you'll likely end up with a
large graphic file whose size you'll then have to reduce in Adobe
Acrobat.
The PDF could then be imported into Ariel. I've had no success in
importing
PDF files into Odyssey.

Joe Ellison
Document Delivery and Digital Initiatives Assistant
Transportation Library, Northwestern Univ Library (OCLC = JCR)
1970 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60208-2300
voice: 847-491-8600, fax: 847-491-8601
j-ellison at northwestern.edu
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/transportation/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org]
> On Behalf Of Breedlove, W Stephen
> Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 2:49 PM
> To: ill-l at webjunction.org
> Subject: [ILL-L] CONVERTING FILES
>
>
> Occasionally, when filling requests from online journals, the article
> needed is a web page or html document.  These can't be converted into
> TIFFs or PDFs as far as I know.  Besides printing them out and
scanning
> them into Ariel or Odyssey, is there any way to get them into a
format,
> i.e., TIFF, that can be imported into Ariel or Odyssey?  I've tried
just
> sending the article as an email attachment, but I'm afraid the
recipient
> might not be able to read it.  When I send it through Microsoft
Outlook
> Express, the message comes up that if the recipient is on Express,
they
> might not be able to open it.(?)
>
> I've tried all kinds of steps to get one of these files into a TIFF.
Have
> been able to make one a TEXT, but that loses the graphics from the
> original file.
>
> I'm sure many people have run into this.  Has anyone found a way
around
> it?
>
> Stephen Breedlove
> Reference and Interlibrary Loan Librarian
> La Salle University Library
> breedlov at lasalle.edu
> 215-951-1862
>
>
>
>
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