[X Newbies] Do I need more ram?

[Bill Reburn]

Depends on what he's doing with them.

Why are you scanning at 600dpi anyway? And at what dimensions are you
scanning? If ALL you are doing is scanning in 5x7/3x5's or whatever and not
doing ANY resizing, just printing at the scanned size then Mr. Wiser is
totally correct. You're scanning in way too much information. Drop it by
half and you'll always have the option of doubling your print size for a
future application.

600dpi is often my BARE minimum, as I like to enlarge quite a bit.. While
scanning photographs is not the highest quality process I prefer to factor
in some extra pixels for later discretion.

More details? And what OS are you using? I know we're in X-Newbies here,
just asking to help you with helpful answers.

On 1/21/03 1:34 PM, "Ed Wiser" <ewiser at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> No need to scan photo's at 600dpi. you can drop it down to 150 dpi for
> printing and everything will work much better.

>>> On 1/20/03 23:58, "David" <whelp at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I just bought a desktop G4 with 512 megs of ram. When I scan pictures at 600
>>> dpi using Vuescan I usually have to restart my computer since none of my
>>> other programs will open after I've scanned a few pictures. I have used
>>> Vuescan's "release memory" feature to no avail.  It appears as though I
>>> don't have enough memory. Is this possible, or is the scanning software to
>>> blame? Should I buy more ram?
>>> 
>> That sounds like a VueScan problem. While 512 MB is not a lot of RAM, it is
>> certainly sufficient. You shouldn't have that kind of problem. I have 640 MB
>> RAM on my new iBook, and can run a dozen applications with no problem. BTW, I
>> recently tried the demo of VueScan and had no such problem.
>> 
>> Kirk








Bill Reburn