Posted by CopperheadVA on 5/24/08 7:34am
Msg #248614

Anyone have an HP Scanjet 8290?

I just bought one off EBAY. It has the ADF. I can't seem to figure out how to get it to automatically scan a mixture of legal and letter sizes - it looks like I have to choose one size when I begin the scan. Anyone know if scanning mixed sizes is possible?

Reply by MistarellaFL on 5/24/08 8:35am
Msg #248619

No, but....

My Brother is the same, so when I scan mixed packages, I always choose legal, and it seems to recognize the different sizes of paper.

Reply by CopperheadVA on 5/24/08 9:08am
Msg #248621

Re: No, but....

When I set it to legal and scan a mixture of legal and letter, everything scans as legal size. It will work for my purposes, but I was hoping to figure out a way that it would automatically scan the legal to legal and the letter to letter. Other than that, I love it!

Reply by PAW on 5/24/08 9:58am
Msg #248625

What application are you scanning to? Does that application support TWAIN? That is, the ScanJet is a TWAIN device that can be selected through the application. The TWAIN drivers that 'drive' the scanner. I have an HP LJ 3330 mfp. Using different applications, I'm able to scan directly from the scanner where the resulting image is that actual scanned size.

I don't have access to an 8290, so I can't be more specific.

Reply by CopperheadVA on 5/24/08 10:40am
Msg #248632

I'm scanning into Adobe Acrobat using the TWAIN interface - I don't see any options for having the scanner auto-select the paper size it's scanning. I can select many different paper sizes from a drop-down box, but nothing that seems to allow for both letter and legal together on the same scan.

Reply by PAW on 5/24/08 1:10pm
Msg #248641

When I scan into Acrobat, the scan dialog ("Create PDF from Scanner) does not offer different page sizes. The second dialog box (Scan Settings) asks how I would like to scan: Photo Only, Text Only, Mixed color, Mixed Grayscale or Custom. For documents, I always select "Text". Then the scanner starts. Page size is determined by the scanner ADF. For example, if I have a legal page followed by a letter page, then that's the resulting size of the pages in the PDF file.

Note: The "Scan Settings" dialog will be scanner specific, so your options may differ from mine.

Reply by CopperheadVA on 5/25/08 1:31pm
Msg #248735

Thanks for the info, Paul. My first dialog box sounds like yours. My second dialog box does the same as yours, except after I select "ADF" and "Text" then I must also choose the document size from a drop-down box.

Reply by PAW on 5/25/08 7:56pm
Msg #248754

Bummer. I guess the Scanjet ADF doesn't send the page size back to the driver like it does on the Laserjet mfp's.