Scanning Slides and Negatives

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On 12/15/2009 01:18 AM, bobc4012 wrote:
> 
> I have a HP C8100 printer/scanner/copier. I can scan pictures, newspapers,
> etc. with Xsane, Gimp and Scanner Utility with out a problem (except the ICM
> Profile pop-up - which I "x" out and continue). However, when I use the
> "35MM Slide or Negative film, I cannot find where to set these applications
> to scan them and produce a picture. All I get is a picture of the
> black/white/gray picture of the slide/negative holder containing the
> slide/negative (like scanning a newspaper article). I can scan with the HP
> support provided under Windows (XP) and get the pictures in the
> slide/negative, but have not found a way to do this in Ubuntu. I have
> included the output from the scan. I did check the Xsane documentation
> (on-line version is 0.994 and installed version is 0.995 - not quite the
> same). Choosing the different options (slide, negative, Kodak, Fuji, etc.)
> just produced the same output with different colors. Inserted is a negative
> strip and a slide. Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks.  
> http://old.nabble.com/file/p26791277/Scanned%2Bpicture.jpeg  
> http://old.nabble.com/file/p26791277/Slide.png  
> 

Per:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/200166
[HP PhotoSmart C8100: I cannot select film/slide scanning in XSane]
this is marked as "Won't Fix"
Not sure why, but the reporter 'Till Kamppeter' is very well known for
Ubuntu printer/printer-driver support. So, if he couldn't get it
changed, doesn't look good.