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my new pc wont recognise my scanner

i have xp

my scanner is hp scanjet 2100c

it says unrecognised device on usb, and when i try to load the software cd it says "scanner not supported". i go to the hp site to try and download the xp software for it, but when i try and install it wont have it, "oh no" it says.

suggestions?

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 11:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Take any remnants of previous install out of your hardware profile, unplug your scanner, reboot, and then try installing drivers. It sometimes works. Oh, yeah, and make sure you have the right software from the HP site. They're wankers like that. Good luck, gareth......

― SittingPretty, Tuesday, 31 December 2002 12:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Easy solution is to install Win2K.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

five years pass...

So I got a Nikon CoolScan 5000ES, and have begun scanning ALL (probably more than 20,000) of my mother's slides and negatives. You can see the first set here:
http://flickr.com/photos/disbister/sets/72157610645389605/

I would like to ask if anyone here has ever taken on a big project like this, and if so, do you have any suggestions or things that I should watch out for? I'm using VueScan, scanning at 4000dpi. For B&W, I know I have to turn off infrared dust removal (otherwise known as ICE). I'm scanning to full-sized JPEGs. I COULD scan to RAW, but the file sizes would be ridiculous. Anyone think I'm making a mistake?

Also, anyone know of a site where I can get more film profiles for VueScan? For example, VueScan does not have a profile for Ilford FP4.

― schwantz, Thursday, 4 December 2008 18:31 (seventeen years ago)

i wouldn't use jpg unless you only want to show stuff on the web or screen. save everything as Tiffs with LZW compression.

― dan selzer, Thursday, 4 December 2008 20:16 (seventeen years ago)

Ugh. Such big files... The pictures are mostly of people and stuff - not very gallery-worthy. What's so bad about JPEG (I know, I asked, you answered...)? Are TIFFs with LZW compressed pretty well?

― schwantz, Thursday, 4 December 2008 20:49 (seventeen years ago)

depends on the picture, but they compress a ton and are lossy. If it's a problem, play with the jpg setting untill you find a good ratio of file size and quality, but anything you do is a loss.

― dan selzer, Thursday, 4 December 2008 21:18 (seventeen years ago)

http://learning.cc.hccs.edu/Members/cschweitzer/images/scanners.gif

― craig sager (eman), Thursday, 4 December 2008 21:19 (seventeen years ago)

I see your http://learning.cc.hccs.edu/Members/cschweitzer/images/scanners.gif and raise you http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m261/disbister/milkface4wr.gif

― schwantz, Thursday, 4 December 2008 22:40 (seventeen years ago)

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