We have a Kodak PS50 and a Kodak PS80 Photo Scanner. These do not scan as well as flatbed scanners, but they scan very well. The problem that I have is that Kodak discontinued them and the scanners are now off set, but I cannot find any calibration sheets for these to reset the scanners. Kodak will have nothing to do with them anymore.
Does anyone have any idea of where I can find calibration sheets for these scanners? I found some for i800 scanners, but I talked with an old Kodak employee and was told that they're not the same. He said the sheets were made by Kodak for the calibration testing. They were white, but they had coding in the paper that the scanner read.
We're just trying to figure out a way to retune these scanners and not have to change photo scanners. There are no other photo scanner with the same quality. We've tried Epson, Cannon & Plustek and they all scanned terribly, compared. All 3 started showing lines through the scanned photos and/or a grainy background. Two of those also had rollers that scratched the photos that were being fed through. The worst was that all three scanned photos were set to scan at 600dpi, but the scanned photos looked like they were made with legos. They looked like they were scanned at 72dpi. I tried multiple settings with these and they were just not anything compared to the PS scanners. The files sizes were 200-400KB each, even though they were scanned at 600dpi. The average size for a PS photo scan at 600dpi is 5-6MB each and they're smooth images.
We do use an Epson v750 for fragile or thick photos, but we don't want to have to change and flatbed scan everything. Before we started having these problems with the PS scanners, we'd scan 4000-5000 photos a day.
Please let me know if there's a way to find Calibration Sheets for the PS scanners or if there is some way around it.
Does anyone have any idea of where I can find calibration sheets for these scanners? I found some for i800 scanners, but I talked with an old Kodak employee and was told that they're not the same. He said the sheets were made by Kodak for the calibration testing. They were white, but they had coding in the paper that the scanner read.
We're just trying to figure out a way to retune these scanners and not have to change photo scanners. There are no other photo scanner with the same quality. We've tried Epson, Cannon & Plustek and they all scanned terribly, compared. All 3 started showing lines through the scanned photos and/or a grainy background. Two of those also had rollers that scratched the photos that were being fed through. The worst was that all three scanned photos were set to scan at 600dpi, but the scanned photos looked like they were made with legos. They looked like they were scanned at 72dpi. I tried multiple settings with these and they were just not anything compared to the PS scanners. The files sizes were 200-400KB each, even though they were scanned at 600dpi. The average size for a PS photo scan at 600dpi is 5-6MB each and they're smooth images.
We do use an Epson v750 for fragile or thick photos, but we don't want to have to change and flatbed scan everything. Before we started having these problems with the PS scanners, we'd scan 4000-5000 photos a day.
Please let me know if there's a way to find Calibration Sheets for the PS scanners or if there is some way around it.
