I don't see how it saves time to take out the pictures and scan them in individually.

Tony's suggestion was made on the assumption that you were going to color-correct and do some tweaking on each (or at least a significant number) of the photos.

Your HP IICX is a good scanner, I think it runs at 600 dpi. The main thing about it is it is FAST. I can scan a full 8x10 color picture at high resolution in about 6--8 seconds with mine.

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