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Posted By: Dave

I too also just got a new scanner. Actually, my first, but still new. It is a HP3970, which cost about $100 at Best Buy or Circuit City. It has a slide/negative holder built into the lid, so you get strange background if you don't cover it up. The rest of the cover is white, and it will automatically size to a card when scanned, without the edges. But, it is easy to grab the corners and expand to expose the edges. I've also found that I like a black background, especially for white border cards. For this, I've taped a sheet of black construction paper to the lid of my scanner. With this, the scanner selects the whole page, and I will adjust it down to the card with edges showing. It's really not very hard!

Here's a recent scan. Baker with a trapezoid cut.