Aficio 2045 Scan software
Hello, i am new to using copiers and my folks recently got a used Aficio 2045 for their small business.
Now here's my question, i have installed the Twain drivers on win7 and i can scan from the copier. My problem is...If i have a book and i want to scan it so that i can print it whenever i need to without rescanning it what free software should i be using?
I did it so far with IrfanView but i scanned the book at 600 dpi because i wanted to be sure the quality was good. When i wanted to print what i scanned i realized i ended up with 150 Jpeg pictures. Darn, i wondered how to print them and i ended up printing one at a time manually, first the odds then the even ones because i needed to print double sided.
Second book i tried it differently, i scanned it as a multipage TIF image file. This time it was better at first sight till i saw i ended up with a 2.5GB TIF image and when i wanted to print my double sided copy the reverse page was upside down. OK i scanned it again this time i kept switching the book alternatively upside down since i couldn't get Aficio to print it normally (oh yeah my page was landscape oriented)
Now my question was, where can i find some tips and tricks on how to scan books using such a nice contraption (i love the Aficio, it's like the printer i always dreamed of having
) ) I mean with tips and tricks, what kind of freeware software could i use to make my mom's life easier when a client comes with a book....maybe some program that will save the scanned images as PDF file and how the heck do i set the printer to print the revers page not upside down.
I hope i was pretty coherent in my problem description and i hope you guys will go easy on me for posting such noob questions (i am pretty sure there are much easier solutions to the scanning process than how i did it but i just don't know which software i should be using and whether 300dpi should be enough)
Now here's my question, i have installed the Twain drivers on win7 and i can scan from the copier. My problem is...If i have a book and i want to scan it so that i can print it whenever i need to without rescanning it what free software should i be using?
I did it so far with IrfanView but i scanned the book at 600 dpi because i wanted to be sure the quality was good. When i wanted to print what i scanned i realized i ended up with 150 Jpeg pictures. Darn, i wondered how to print them and i ended up printing one at a time manually, first the odds then the even ones because i needed to print double sided.
Second book i tried it differently, i scanned it as a multipage TIF image file. This time it was better at first sight till i saw i ended up with a 2.5GB TIF image and when i wanted to print my double sided copy the reverse page was upside down. OK i scanned it again this time i kept switching the book alternatively upside down since i couldn't get Aficio to print it normally (oh yeah my page was landscape oriented)
Now my question was, where can i find some tips and tricks on how to scan books using such a nice contraption (i love the Aficio, it's like the printer i always dreamed of having
) ) I mean with tips and tricks, what kind of freeware software could i use to make my mom's life easier when a client comes with a book....maybe some program that will save the scanned images as PDF file and how the heck do i set the printer to print the revers page not upside down. I hope i was pretty coherent in my problem description and i hope you guys will go easy on me for posting such noob questions (i am pretty sure there are much easier solutions to the scanning process than how i did it but i just don't know which software i should be using and whether 300dpi should be enough)
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