(find the difference between ppi and dpi here) I am no expert, but according to everything that I read, you should be using 300 ppi or above for photos, especially if you plan to print them out down the road.

The rest should have been easy – but it wasn’t.īy default, HP scan was scanning my photos at 200 ppi – which is 200 pixels per square inch.

Just as an FYI I have an HP 8600 All In One.) (If you don’t have it, you can search the HP website for your model and download it there. HP Scan comes bundled with the full featured software that HP puts out with their printers. So, I opted to use the HP Scan app instead. And for some reason, my “go to” app for scanning, Image Capture, would not work. Since I last scanned photos, I upgraded the operating system on my Mac to Yosemite. I feel that the quality of the photo scans using the flatbed is better than the results that I get from my Fujitsu Scan Snap sheet fed scanner (which really rocks for documents). In my case, I prefer to use the flatbed scanner that is part of my HP all in one printer. Migrating paper photographs to digital format is a time consuming process and involves a scanner. So I have boxes of photos in addition to my digital collection. I hate to admit it, but yes – I was around long before the digital camera revolution.

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