Printer all sorted

Engineer rolled up with a pile of boxes and having confirmed that the problem was with the upper scanner proceeded to swap the top section of the printer with a new one. Half an hour later all is sorted and we are getting clean scans again. Now to get stuck into the last couple of hundred Model Engineer magazines now that I only need to run them through once.

Have been looking online to see what other volumes of the magazine are available pre-1950 and there have been a few batches that may be worth buying to fill the gap in my archive. I also picked up the USB stick being sold on eBay - perhaps in breach of copyright - that has a disjointed set of volumes from the early days until today. I am still hopeful that I can recover my own later scans when the police finally return what they seized in 2019 and 2020. THAT meeting was to have taken place today but has been pushed back again to next Tuesday.

Extra - Having scanned some 28000 A3 pages, the document transport was squealing a little, but the repair in addition to replacing the faulty scanner head has also provided a new transport section. So while the count continues to rise, that can be offset by 28k in terms of pages being processed now.

The next job is to scan several years of the smaller format magazines and this is proceeding nicely having got about half way through already. The process is slightly different to the previous one for a number of reasons. The only colour element is the cover so I am currently running two scans, one in colour and the bulk in grey scale. This is documented in detail on another crib sheet.