I DON'T FUCKING BELIEVE IT

monster · 04-29-2011, 06:50 AM

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.

monster · 04-29-2011, 06:59 AM

beest is my hero

he rescued them with rubbing alcohol.

infinite monkey · 04-29-2011, 07:04 AM

Oh wow! Way to go beest!

jimhelm · 04-29-2011, 09:32 AM

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?

monster · 04-29-2011, 11:37 AM

So old they were matte. looks fine.

Tulip · 04-29-2011, 12:10 PM

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

monster · 04-29-2011, 12:12 PM

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....

infinite monkey · 04-29-2011, 12:13 PM

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!

monster · 04-29-2011, 12:19 PM

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?

Undertoad · 04-29-2011, 12:32 PM

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.

infinite monkey · 04-29-2011, 12:33 PM

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.

monster · 04-29-2011, 12:39 PM

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

HungLikeJesus · 04-29-2011, 01:14 PM

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

BigV · 04-29-2011, 01:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monster

beest is my hero

he rescued them with rubbing alcohol.

I'm glad.

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

Flint · 04-29-2011, 01:30 PM

Hooray for men-folk of the house!

04-29-2011, 06:50 AM	#1
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	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. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

04-29-2011, 06:59 AM	#2
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	beest is my hero he rescued them with rubbing alcohol. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

04-29-2011, 09:32 AM	#4
jimhelm a beautiful fool Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: 39.939705 Posts: 4,504	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? __________________ There's a Shadow just behind me. Shrouding every step I take. Making every promise empty, pointing every finger at me. _tool

04-29-2011, 11:37 AM	#5
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	So old they were matte. looks fine. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

04-29-2011, 12:12 PM	#7
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	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.... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

04-29-2011, 07:04 AM	#3
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Oh wow! Way to go beest!

04-29-2011, 12:10 PM	#6
Tulip Professor Join Date: May 2008 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 1,293	The silver lining of this incident? We now know how to clean accidentally printed old photos.

04-29-2011, 12:13 PM	#8
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	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!

04-29-2011, 12:19 PM	#9
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	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? __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

04-29-2011, 12:32 PM	#10
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	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.

04-29-2011, 12:33 PM	#11
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	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.

04-29-2011, 12:39 PM	#12
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Yup, on it, thanks UT. Now is the time to scan all the ones we cherish..... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

04-29-2011, 01:14 PM	#13
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	But really, there's nothing more depressing than nostalgia. __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

04-29-2011, 01:30 PM	#15
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