Little Scanning Help Here, Please!

[Clutch-Hitter]

Place the subject on the scanner and preview it first. The scanner will scan the entire length of the space and provide the preview.

Movable dotted lines should appear. From there, you can move the little dotted lines around the subject pictured in the preview,

and once that is done, you can start the actual scan.

I hope that makes sense....

[D. Bergin]

Yeah, you must have been using an automatic cropping default that switched off some how.

I always scan how "Clutch-Hitter" mentioned. Do a preview scan. Manually crop the image and then a regular scan. Cuts down on mistakes and overlapping from the default scan settings.

[Tsaiko]

Thanks guys, something is probably funky with my scanner. Tomorrow I'll try again, after unplugging everything and doing some computer house keeping.

I used to just press Start Scan on the printer itself and all would be good, except every once in a while. Now the only way I can get a "tight" scan is if I select scan "document" - not picture and I do this in the software. When previewing after selecting "picture" the lines around the whole scan don't want to move. Scanning under document the lines draw around the card and it's ok. And for some reason the software won't let me paste the name, so I can add "back" to it, for the back. A few extra steps, in an already tedious job.
I checked all the defaults and everything seems as it was.
I'll figure it out.