Thankfully, I figured it out – and now I am sharing it with you. I honestly Googled every term I could think of to find the answer, with no luck. How Do You Change the Settings?įor the life of me, I could not figure out how to change the settings for scan resolution in HP Scan (mine is version 4.4.1). I don't know if I will ever make a paper copy of these photos (after all, I am scanning them so I can get rid of the paper) but who knows? So, it would seem that 200 ppi was not going to cut it. Find a great discussion of optimal scanning resolutions here. (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.
