I DON'T FUCKING BELIEVE IT
 

The old photos I've been scanning were on top of the printer scanner and just fell in and got printed on. The Bungee jump one got printed all across the front. :cry:

beest is my hero :love: he rescued them with rubbing alcohol.

Oh wow! Way to go beest!

I was just going to say, good thing you scanned them!... you should probably look into treating them. I would think the alcohol has stripped away the gloss coat along with the ink?

So old they were matte. looks fine.

The silver lining of this incident? We now know how to clean accidentally printed old photos. :D

beest says Jim may be right ther's a slight "water mark" but i think that was probably me using a damp cloth to try and get the ink off while it was still wet....

ah well....

I picture your printer with claws and jaws, snatching up things to satisfy its insatiable need to print on things. :)

Please to describe how your pictures "fell in" because, honestly, it sounds like the kind of "it could never happen that way again" kind of thing that would happen to me!

I have no idea! It had already printed a few pages just fine and then it started making funny noises and spat out my pictures. I wasn't watching it print before that. perhaps the vibration from the printing slowly jiggled them to the front of the printer until they fell off into the paper tray which sticks out horizantally?

Think two chess moves ahead, here:

Once you have them scanned, the digital copy is the one you'll want to protect. The original prints are too much trouble, as we see.

Unless someone in those photos becomes historically notable (you can't rule that out), the only thing someone in the future will want to do with those originals is to SCAN them!

But any future scan will inevitably start from a print that is degraded from your current scan.

It's not funny because your pictures could have been ruined, but it is funny because I picture this happening and you being all like WTF when they came out. Again, it wouldn't have been funny if it hadn't turned out so well. :)

Yup, on it, thanks UT. Now is the time to scan all the ones we cherish.....

But really, there's nothing more depressing than nostalgia.

I'm glad.


I was going to suggest Ctrl-Z....

Hooray for men-folk of the house!

I will point out the obvious irony here of scanning photos (which still exist) from 1980's into a computer storage system that surely will not exist 20-30 years from now. If you don't throw away those photos, you will be able to scan them into whatever gizmo we'll be using then. Guaranteed.
;)

but clearly, now I have found them, my karma is hell-bent on destroying them as quickly as possible, they will not be around in another 20-30 years. :lol:

It sometimes bums me out to see how young and youthful and relatively handsome I was in my old photos.

It's kind of amazing isn't it? Hard to believe we looked like that.

Yet another reason to marry a nerd. Go Beest!

Back in my post grad days we use to develop and print all our negtives and pictures, crop them and stick little printed out arrows and labels on them.

When I started working we use to capture all our pictures on polaroids.

So I knew the picture wouldn't just wipe off.

And back in your batchelor's degree days you just painting the fucking things straight on to the cave walls. :D

You obviously haven't thought ahead to the inevitable EMP attack. We'll be going back to printed photos soon.

Guess my blacksmithing obsession could come in handy...