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Trouble with work computer

Nocturnal

Nocturnal

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I scan files with a scanner at sometimes 1200dpi and I can't for the life of my comptuer get them to open and see what they look like. If they do open it takes forever. What could be causing this? Is it my ram?

I'm on a work e-machine computer.

I believe it's a 600 mhz Celeron and 128mb ram.

Is it the ram causing this problem?

HELP?
 
hi,
you are kidding, right?
a 1200 dpi 24 bit color scan of a 8.5" x 11" is ~400mbytes big
this will be very hard to open with a 600mhz celeron and 128mb of ram and take a long time if at all.
what application are you trying to use?
i think that you will need much more ram and a faster machine before you try to manipulate large images.
 
Originally posted by: foofoo
hi,
you are kidding, right?
a 1200 dpi 24 bit color scan of a 8.5" x 11" is ~400mbytes big
this will be very hard to open with a 600mhz celeron and 128mb of ram and take a long time if at all.
what application are you trying to use?
i think that you will need much more ram and a faster machine before you try to manipulate large images.
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HOLY CRAP. I didn't even know that, I am sorry. LOL I had no idea it was 400mb!!!!
 
lol you need to learn a little about scanning my friend. Your scanning program should tell your how large your final scan will come out to. Look at the resolution and color mode settings and when you change them, the size should change accordingly. Also... wtf are you scanning at 1200dpi? Almost nothing at an office needs to be scanned 1:1 at 1200dpi. If you're going that high you might as well send them out for professional drum scanning. What is it you are looking to do?

and btw your scanner software should be able to put tags on the output scans, most likely TIF. Just open with photoshop or whatever yuo use. Also set that file type/extension to open with your preferred graphics program.
 
p.s. your machine needs much more RAM to edit image files. A new comp wouldn't hurt but in the meantime, get a stick or 2 of 256mb chips. You are probably using PC100-PC133 in that celeron so RAM is really cheap. That way at least the system can work the file into RAM and not caching from the slow hard drive.
 
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