Scanned photo looks "fat"

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Scarlett

I just bought an old HP psc 750 at a garage sale, when I scan a photo the
proportion always looks too wide. I've tried changing every setting that I
can to no avail. Does anyone know of a fix for this, other than throwing it
in the trash?
 
Scarlett said:
I just bought an old HP psc 750 at a garage sale, when I scan a photo the
proportion always looks too wide. I've tried changing every setting that I
can to no avail. Does anyone know of a fix for this, other than throwing it
in the trash?
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May be not a fix, but a test to see if the scanner is really expanding the
horizontal direction.

On a sheet of letter size paper. Draw a heavy circle (use ink) with a school
compass. It must be a true circle. It should be big enough to cover one half
of the paper width.

Then scan the paper at 300 DPI and see if you get a circle when you print
the image. Save the image as a TIFF to eliminate distortion by BMP or GIF
images.

Print the Tiff image at 300 DPI. (Actual Size)

Only judge the printed image, because your monitor may be misadjusted to
make the horizontal dimension too wide.

You can compare the original scanned paper against the printed image.
 
That was it! Thanks so much for the help. I guess I won't have to trash it
after all.
 
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