Kenners

For me, I go by the motto of collect what you like, and because I like it, I want to see it. While there's certainly some potential of long term value in the items, that's not why I buy them. I buy them because I like them and therefore want to see them. Same philosophy with my other collections, if I'm not looking through my card collection regularly, I get rid of it as it's stopped meaning something to me. I would agree with the other statement above, if I'm just going to display a copy, I might as well just get prints of high end books I don't own that look cool. Just my 2 cents. Exactly how I feel.

Thanks to fellow boardie, Dom Rand! ..

An uber-cheap find from Rich Henn via Ebay. Awesome Cap image, and its a 9.8, signed by Gerald Parel .. .. and here's a couple (of many) Brubaker era Cap's from an ongoing-sub project through our very own Flaming_Telepath ..

Congrats! That is beautiful!

Same here .. Kenners = lastsurfer64

Looking through everyone's awesome books, it gives me something to aspire to! Thank you, everyone; for giving me something to aim for in the future.

Looks great! .. and the scanner was a total bargain at $10!

So much good stuff posted here. I'm waiting on a Captain America from Steve ('Athena Voltaire') Bryant.

I'm a bit late to the game, but here's a commission that I picked up from Chris Weston at the LSCC, depicting 'Elektro' from 'The Twelve' (apologies for the glare from the flash on my phone-cam. The piece is too big to scan on my flatbed scanner, so I took a pic of it in a Hot Flips poly folder) .. Esad Ribic 'Thor: God Of Thunder' .. Charlie Adlard 'Michonne' from 'The Walking Dead' .. Howard Chaykin 'The Thing' .. Ian Churchill 'Red Hulk' ..

Nice! I've always wanted those books, but they are nearly impossible to find in the US. I have never actually seen one in person! I've got the run bound in 2 volumes, and I'm selling them. Just thought I'd mention it. Drop me a pm if you're interested.

Fixed it for you, Sir.

Verrrrry nice!

(thumbs u

GA Captain America's

.. did everything go okay?

Absolutely beautiful! Thanks for showing them

It's been a pleasure ..

Me too!

I'm in awe of this pic alone! ..

I did find this on the net, relating how to do a hard reset .. http://www.fixya.com/support/t991857-scanner_problem First try a hard reset. Use the following steps to perform a hard reset on an HP Scanjet Scanner. 1. Disconnect all cables from the scanner. 2. Lock and unlock any carriage lock. 3. Place the scanner on a flat and level surface. 4. Wait at least 5 seconds after disconnecting the cables before re-connecting any cables for testing or troubleshooting.

Yeah, really sorry to hear about your problems. I'm pretty sure not every 8300 has the same grinding problem, so (unfortunately) I'd have to say you just got a bad one. So sorry. I think the first thing I'd do, is get back in touch with the seller and see exactly where you stand regarding the shipping with this.

For the 8300 owners amongst us .. I've been tinkering. I did end up installing the Firmware update for a couple of reasons. The end result being that with the full, slow download of the main drivers installed .. the update makes for a quieter scan. The other reason I did it (and not to scare anyone), is that I got an error message 'ROM Code Failed! Please Download FW!!' Having pooped mysel, I did a Google search for answers (and having already downloaded the FW Update previously), I applied the update (as the answers said to do) .. and initially nothing happened (after following the instructions). This is what worked for me, and got me my scanner back .. Remove and re-apply (re-screw) the grey ADF lead at the back of the scanner. Turn power back on .. Hey, presto! .. Scanner back to normal. I just thought I'd point this out if anyone gets that dreaded error message.

No, I didn't download it .. Scanner's working just fine (it's probably buried within the driver download).

Here we are, Sir! .. Windows 7 64 Bit Description Current version Size (MB) Estimated download time Previous version HP Scanjet Full Feature Software and Driver 14.5.1 26 Nov 2012 193.7 56K: 7h 512K: 51m The wording above, is taken directly from link page. The above link will take you there and its the only thing you should need to download. You could go for the ultra-quick basic driver, but that really doesn't use the 8300 to its full capability.

I find the best thing with the 8300, is to download the huge 200mb driver package direct from their website (customer service? .. why bother contacting them, when you can do everything yourself at the touch of a button?). Once downloaded, open it just like you would any other program; and make a Custom Setting of 300dpi and scan on the Extreme setting. Works for me and produces absolutely gob-smacking results. Amazon reviews? .. don't waste your time with them. The 8300 is an awesome scanner and perfectly suited fr our hobby.