Karen woot is cool but I need more. LOL I need my deal catcher. I am done shopping for Christmas but still checking. MS Zune $ 99.99 wow. SJN just trimming up my plants. They Had limbs on the ground. One plant made 100+ I hate to throw anything away. I already had 15-20 pots filled with starts. What to do direct plant. I am sure at least 25% will survive. I stick them 12-18" deep so they have constant moisture. Might have to wear a gas mask at full moon or dig and give. I have had real good results using the Cut and plant. Too funny gardening games. "Brugmansia the Game" 1st person grower. (Big grin)

I would have a hard time tossing the scanned slides also - but understand your space limitations. I have an Epson flatbed V200 scanner that I scan slides with. LOVE IT! Love it even more with my new computer that runs so much faster (didn't have any trouble with it working on the new Windows 7 OS either) My Epson is no longer available, but the V500 is pretty much the same unit. I looked up both the Epson and the Cano Scan on Amazon. Looks like both will scan 4 slides at once. I have done large batches (hundreds - not thousands though). It take a while, but if you leave a stack, and just swap them out while you are on the computer, you can get a lot done! I like reading the reviews on Amazon - gives great reviews from people that have actually used the unit. Both the Epson and the Canon have lots of reviews. Price is very similar. I like the Epson flat bed personally. You can scan documents or photos. I find it super handy just to copy a paper when needed. It is NOT an all in one. Just a flat bed scanner. But if I need a copy of a paper, I can just hit "copy" and it will scan and send it to my printer. I scan at 600dpi - which is plenty. Unless you are going to print somthing wall size, you don't need to use the super high settings. It will just make a huge file and take a long time to scan. Make sure you have a couple back up sources for you scans if you are going to dispose of the slides. DVD's can go bad - hard drive fail... I would use at least 2 different backup methods. Here is a scan from a slide from the late 40's or early '50's. Slide had dust and a few scratches.....

I have several suggestions you can try: First, it is possible that there is a small piece of paper that is jamming the rollers, even though you don't see anything, so is it possible to open the case and try to reach the rollers and rotate them by hand? Second, right-click on the "My Computer" icon, then Properties, then Device Manager, and see if there are any red or amber warning flags for Imaging Devices. Third, try resetting the printer-computer connection by shutting off the printer and disconnecting the USB cable from the printer to the computer, rebooting the computer, and then turning the printer back on and plugging the USB cable in. (Also check to see if there are any old printing jobs that are still in the cue by looking at the printer window that you can open up from the control panel, and also check again to make sure it's still online.) Once you do that, try printing again. Fourth, go into the printer software and see if you can run the diagnostics program. If you don't have this, you can also download a piece of troubleshooting software directly from the HP web site. Fifth, have you tried running a test page usng the printer software? This should tell you if the printer is functioning. Then report back on whether any of these worked...

I would not throw away the slides! Those are the originals that can never be duplicated if something happens to your everyday copies. Expect the everyday copies to experience wear, tear, and finger prints. The media you may use to store the digitzed images is not all that permanent. Hard drives fail; Thumb USB drives may eventually give up the ghost. Research the storage life of a USB drive before depending on it for long term storage. My informtion is old, harking back to the early development days of those drives. Back then, the storage life was rated at 10 years. Those thumb drives have improved greatly since then, but the underlying technology is still the same. The memory in a USB drive requires a "keep alive" battery. typically, this battery is a small lithium cell that can keep the memory fresh for about 10 yrs and then it is done. Each junction in a solid state storage device is good for about 10,000 re-writes before failure. Clever tricks are employed to extend the life of these devices. An internal controller writes the data in a way to use all of the memory. It does not keep rewriting over the same locations, but moves the start partition when possible after an early file is deleted. It cycles the data over the entire media. In this way, all junctions get about the same usage rather than rewriting the begining parts over and over again. This statragy increases the life of the device. When a thumb drive is used for long term stoage of photo images, individaul junctions are not rewritten very often so this would not be a concern. However, the internal battery life is a concern. Burning the data to a CD is a good move, again only if the very best is used, and if there is a planned program of re-copying every 4 to 5 years. You'll have to research to find which media is best at long term storage: CD_R, CDRW , or DVD. It is sensible to make digital files so that you can reprint images as desired and pass along copies. But, it does not make semse to destroy the original images. My advice: 1. Cull the slides and save only the "keepers". 2. Digitize the keepers and toss the junk. 3. Pack the keepers in good boxes and store in a cool, dry location. 4. While you are culling, make a record/index of the slides with titles and dates. Print a copy and put with the slides. This will be very handy if, in the future, you wish to find a paricular slide. Put a digital copy of this index on each storage device.