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Re: Scanning Tips
Save your files as tif files if you are working on PCs or going back and
forth.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Lillie <jlillie@email.unc.edu>
To: jomc191@listserv.oit.unc.edu <jomc191@listserv.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Wednesday, October 08, 1997 10:28 PM
Subject: Scanning Tips
>Here are some tips for using the scanner in the basement of Wilson.
>
>1. Don't let the staff, especially the receptionist, intimidate
>you...perhaps try going over the confrontation in your head before you go
>in.
>2. the scanner can be found by going past the font desk (on the
>right)....through to the back....take a right...you will be in a large
>scarry corridor that smells of old coffee...you are headed in the right
>direction...after a few yards you will see an old scanner...it is actually
>part of the NC historical archives I think.
>3. Leave pleanty of time to scan...both the CPU and the scanner are the
>industry's version of the Model T.
>4. Don't complain, cause we are luicky to not have to pay 3 bucks a copy.
>5. Spend the money you save at the J-school happy hour (gradstudents) and
>Margarrita thursdays at Hector's Down Under (grads and undergrads with
>fake IDs).
>6. I saved my scans as picts cause I think that when I open those up in
>Photoshop that it will work.
>6.1 Bring several mac disks if you have several scans to do.
>7. Giff-Converter (app) does not work on that computer.
>9. Use the elevator to go between the 4th and 1st floor.
>10. Humor Micheal Taft and staff with tasteless jokes off the
>internet ( just kidding use tasteful jokes and say thanks).
>
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