How to use the GIS Lab Slide Scanner

1. Set up a folder on this computer's Local Disc (C:).

• Go to the desktop and double click the My Computer icon in the upper left-hand corner of the screen.




• Go to the My Computer window and double click Local Disk (C:), then double click the Users folder.
• Now click on File, scroll down to New, move to the right and click on Folder.





• Finally, rename the highlighted New Folder with the prefix of your University of Washington e-mail address (If your e-mail is jsmith5@u.washington.edu, then you would rename the new folder "jsmith5"). Now that you have a folder to save the scanned images, you can begin the next step of the scanning process.

2. Put slides in. Do your best at placing the emulsion side of the slide to the outside of the loader. The emulsion side of a slide, when looked at by a keen observer, will have a very fine texture to it (as opposed to no texture). If you are unable to distinguish one side from the other than just use your best judgment. You can only notice the difference when you scan a slide at the highest resolution (4000 dpi).

Make sure the slides are put in as landscape.

3. Open Nikon Scan 3.1

Go to programs/ Nikon Scan 3.1/Nikon 3.1

or

go to the desktop and double click Nikon Scan 3.1.

4. Click the Preview button to check the image.

If the preview image is not positioned correctly, go to Tool Palette 1 and click the triangle to the left of Layout Tools. Use the arrow keys to rotate the image to the desired position.

• In the Nikon SUPER COOL SCAN 4000 control panel, you may want to crop the photo image from the edges (some of the slide frame may have been scanned as part of the image). Cropping is done by dragging the mouse arrow over your image while holding the left mouse button. Everything inside the cropped square will be saved.


• In Tool Palette 1 you need to set the Resolution. Use the following table to set your resolution:
  
  

  Recommended Resolution Table
  Image Use	Pixels/Inch
  Web Site	1000
  Word Document	1000
  Power Point Projection	1000
  8 in by 11 in Printout	2000
  Full Poster Printout	4000

  
  

6. Now go to Nikon Scan 3.1, click the Nikon Scan menu, scroll down to Slide Feeder..., and click it.

7. In the Slide Feeder dialog box, type in the number of slides to scan and click OK. (Hint: you do not need to count your slides. Enter the maximum number of 50 and it will scan until the feeder is empty).

8. In the Batch Scan Setting dialog box, check the same boxes as shown in the example below.

9. In the File Saving Options dialog box there is a File Naming section and a File Saving Section.

• In the File Naming section, enter something that will help you recognize this batch of slides in the Prefix box. Add a Suffix if you like. Number of digits needs to be at least 2 for a batch of ten or more slides. Starting Index should be 1, unless this is a continuation from a larger set of slides.
• In the File Saving section, the Directory is where you will save the images. Brows to your folder on this computer's Local Disk (D:/Users/yourfolder).
• In the File Saving section, you need to set your File Format. Use the following File Format Recommendation Table to help you choose from the File Format drop down menu.
  
  

  File Format Recommendation Table
  Image Use	File Format
  Web Site	JPEG Smaller
  Word Document	JPEG Better Quality
  Power Point Projection	JPEG Excellent Quality
  8 in by 11 in Printout	TIFF
  Full Poster Printout	TIFF

After the appropriate entries have been made, click OK.

Now your slides are being scanned and saved. It takes about a minute per slide, depending mostly on the resolution settings.

When slides are jammed:

• Go to the desktop and double click FDUtility.
• Click forward or backward until the jammed slide is ejected, then click OK.
• Put the slides back and start over where you left off. The slides that went through are saved so you only need to start over for the slides that were not scanned.
• The only change to make after a jam is in the File Saving Options dialog box. In the File Naming section change the Starting Index to match the next slide (i.e. if the scanner jammed after 14 out of 30 slides were processed, then the starting index should be 15).

If you get this error message, click OK, close the program, start over.