Kodak Scanner Serial Number

[Doria Vilcan]

weare replacing our Fujitsu Fi-6670 scanners and would like to get some feedback on replacement. We are considering Fujitsu Fi-7800 and Kodak i-4250. Can anyone chime in on their experience with these scanners and integration with QF.

Kodak drivers and Laserfiche software don't get along well in my experience. We were persuaded to buy an expensive Kodak production scanner to use with Quick Fields. It was a great scanner mechanically but we wasted many, many hours trying to keep it running happily with QF.

Finally we passed the Kodak scanner on to another department. It's working beautifully in that department, because it's being driven by Kodak Capture Pro software instead of by Laserfiche Quick Fields.

I'd say the most important element is TWAIN or WIA driver support on the scanner. A highly disproportionate number of scanning support cases involve ISIS scan drivers. You don't want those to be your only option.

Thank you Tim and Samuel, I really appreciate your input. Samuel, do you normally integrate QF and scanner using ScanConnect or TWAIN? We are using Kofax VRS for our scanning with QF but lately we are getting some Kofax software crashes even after re-installing it. It seems Fujitsu stopped using and supporting the Kofax software.

Tim, I think I still have flashbacks of those QF troubleshooting sessions. In fact, with my new company, we just use network scanners if at all possible. Give users a button for the document type, store to a network path, and then import to LF where they can do indexing. No more driver troubleshooting.

Hi Pieter! Good to hear from you. So we managed to make ourselves that memorable? Yes, I'm sure those were frustrating for all involved. I was glad we had good support but very relieved when ditched the Kodak scanner and got the Canon which was less expensive and very reliable.

Amir, We like to use whatever is least headache-prone and most reliable, regardless of the possibility of a performance penalty. That had led us to TWAIN. I really think you'll be happy with the Canon production scanners. I hope it goes great for you!

We ended up purchasing two (for now) Canon DR-2140 and they are great machines with ton of options and settings. There are few quirks however that we didn't expect and one that we couldn't get around. For the good things; its fast, rarely jams, easy feeding and pickup.. we scan ton of W-2's and so far no issues. Driver settings are plentiful and easy to understand with great help documentation.

Odd/Bad things: We can't get the stop button in QF to stop the scanner.. we can start it from QF but not stop. If someone has any suggestions please let me know. We tried just about every option. We use QF user interface and don't like to have TWAIN screen to click scan to come up.. we have it set so that user clicks Start in QF and it starts scanning without any pop-ups. Another odd thing is that we had some color pictures of W-2s that customer took with their phone, we printed in black and white and it's rather dark gray but you can still read everything, but under TWAIN scanning it would actually discard those and they would never come over to QF or if they did they were too dark.. tried number of settings but nothing really worked. They came over just fine on Fujitsu. We ended up installing Kofax and setting auto brightness on and pages came over crystal clear.. dark gray background was turned into white and text and lines were black, just perfect. Imprinter is optional add on is another issue so we will need to purchase $320 kit.

I was not able to use ScanConnect.. scanner is not listed. Driver package has everything, ISIS/TWAIN and WIA but when you get to the selecting scanner its just not there in ScanConnect. I was hoping to try that option but I had similar problems with Fujitsu where I wasn't able to use ScanConnect. I might need to try again and see if I see anything out of order.

PaperVision Tools offers powerful functionality for scanning to PaperVision Enterprise or to ImageSilo. Kodak i1200 series scanners have Smart touch technology that can integrate with PaperVision Tools. This article describes how to configure your Kodak i1200 series scanner to scan directly to PaperVision Enterprise or ImageSilo with the touch of a button.

Once the user has completed these steps, they will be fully configured for one-touch scanning to PaperVision Enterprise. If the user wishes to have multiple scanning profiles, simply create a new profile in the Smart touch configuration console and assign it to a specific number between 1 and 9. To scan to PaperVision Enterprise using that profile, simply select the corresponding number on the Kodak scanner and press the scan button. Note that the user needs to select a multipage file format if scanning multiple pages to a single document.

1. Try rebooting the computer and scanner.

2. Try connecting to a different USB port on the computer

3. Update the scanner drivers from Kodak's website: www.kodakalaris.com/go/disupport and serach the model number in the "Find your Product" search bar.

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The scanner is a business class scanner, an i2900. It comes with a small program called Kodak Smart Touch. This program allows you to select and customize a number of presets on the front panel and automatically create/save scanned files, etc.

Hi. I'm brand-new to Photoshop. I've never used it in my life. I have to scan quite a few Kodak color slides. I'm using an Epson 12000XL scanner to do this. They're being scanned as TIFFs, 3000dpi, 24-bit color. When I open them up in Photoshop, they could be a lot sharper. How can I make the images sharper in Photoshop? I've attached one sample slide below (as JPG, 3000dpi, 24-bit color). Notice that the edges of everything are kind of blurry. I'm using Photoshop CC 2017, and I'm on a PC. The images will not be printed out; they will be used on a PowerPoint presentation. The person in charge of the project wants them to be at 3000dpi.

The differences between the two images, differences in local contrast (modeling), tonal range, image sharpness and variety of colors makes the matching the images impossible. For the image above, the reference sample was enlarged and silhouetted and added as a layer above the green image. it is at the bottom of the image and has not been modified. This eliminated the distraction of the surround.

OK the average size of a print is 4" x 6" (or there about). So to see what the actual quality is you take the inch of one side and multiply by the ppi to get your pixel dimension of that side, then repeat.

I do not see your test picture exceptional blurry. Infact we tend to look at the picture at a 100% of the pixel size. You should downsample to the projection size and mount into a powerpoint and project that to see how this works out.

The Epson 12000 scanner is very expensive, but judging from what I've read on the Internet, it is no better for scanning film than the much cheaper Expression/700/800 series, with which I have quite a lot of experience.

Sorry for any confusion. But yeah being a 70's or 80's film, it can be hard to get high quality scans. That was why pro's used larger cameras to capture more detail. Since I never used one, I will leave my knowledge on it there.

2400 ppi (not dpi) is the published resolution of this scanner, so when scanning at a higher resolution (like 3000) you are not recording any more detail than at 2400, and you will not get a sharper image.

Using a dedicated film scanner (like a Nikon or Imacon/Hasselblad) would give you sharper results. But since this only for screen viewing, you probably want to downsize it (use a copy) to maybe around 1900 pixels wide (depending on the resolution of the monitor), and it will look much better at that size.

I want to thank everyone here, --Silkrooster, Abambo, and Per--for answering my questions. I was away from my office with whooping cough right after I posted this questions, which is why I'm so late in responding now. I didn't want anyone to think that I had posted a question and forgotten about it, which would have been so rude!!!

Per-- You said that "you probably want to downsize it (use a copy) to maybe around 1900 pixels wide (depending on the resolution of the monitor), and it will look much better at that size." How do I downsize to 1900 pixels wide? Like, where do I input the number "1900"? Or did did you mean 19,000 by any chance?

"OK the average size of a print is 4" x 6" (or there about). So to see what the actual quality is you take the inch of one side and multiply by the ppi to get your pixel dimension of that side, then repeat.

Per-- You said that "you probably want to downsize it (use a copy) to maybe around 1900 pixels wide (depending on the resolution of the monitor), and it will look much better at that size." How do I downsize to 1900 pixels wide? Like, where do I input the number "1900"? Or did did you mean 19,000 by any chance?

Since you will be using these images for a Power Point presentation on screen, consider the width of the monitor in pixels. 1920 is a common width, which is why I suggested 1900. I would guess that Power Point scales images down to fit in window (don't know, I never used it), but if you do the scaling beforehand, the file size will be reduced. (the image you posted is 3881 pixels wide)

You probably want jpgs for the presentation, so I suggest that you use Save for web, which will create a new version of the image, optimized for screen use. Go to File > Export > Save for Web, and try the settings in the screenshot below. Pay particular attentions to the items marked in red. You could also File > Export > Export As - personally I prefer Save for Web.

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