Scanning with Image Capture eating hard drive space

This has been a reoccuring problem for me. If I scan around 30mb of images to an external drive, my hard disk ends up with a full message. I end up having to use a cashe cleaner to free the space up again. I've figured out that with the 8 GB of free space on my internal disk, if I scan around 7-8 images (around 15mb) it says I have filled the disk.
I'd appreciate any help I can get on this. It's a pain in the butt to have to keep clearing space only to have it filled again one image later.

my guess is that you need at least 3 times as much free space on your internal drive as you have now. OS X needs temporary space on that drive for every file move copy, scan, etc it does. you'll find recommendations of 10-20 percent of drive total space here.

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Trouble Printing PDF's scanned with Image Capture

OK this is a strange problem. I have Macbook Pro and a Lexmark E230 laser printer which prints everything out just fine in safari, word, pages, numbers - anything except PDF's that are specifially scanned with the Image Capture application.
I printed four PDF's that were made from different sources, some just assembled JPEGs, one that was text printed from Pages, and another instruction manual randomly downloaded from the internet. All printed fine.
My wife and I scan a lot for our home business and any PDF that we have scanned using Image Capture prints only the first page, then hangs, and then the rest of the document does not print. If I try to print the second or other pages manually, I get an error printed on the page saying :
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This used to work, now it doesn't. Printer hasn't changed, types of documents haven't changed. Any ideas?
Thanks so much,
Jim

Welcome to Apple Discussions, bubblebanium!
I have experienced your problem on several occasions and found the culprit to be a corrupt font. Try selecting everything in the document and changing it to a font that you are certain prints. If the problem persists, try copying everything and paste it into a new document. If your document is several pages, try printing one page to hone in on the problem.
If the problem still persists, does your document have bullet items? If yes, and the bulleted items were created with the automatic bullet feature, then the problem may be the default font used for that feature (most likely the Symbol font).
To change to a different font, go to the Format menu, select Bullets and Numbering. Click on the style of bullets your document uses and then click the Customize button. In the next window, click on the shape of bullet your document uses and then click the Font button below. A Font window appears in which you can then select a different font. Afterwards, if the document prints, then the default font is probably corrupt and you may want to replace it with a good copy.
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Since I updated to Mavericks the system freezes when I scan in Image Capture.
This occurs with two different scanners, a Epson Perfection V30 and a Lexmark X364dw.
When I start the scan in Image Capture it seems to work. Then Image Capture shows the message "Saving picture [name of the picture], page 1" and freezes the whole Computer. Only the mouse pointer can be moved.
I only can do a force shut down by pressing the on-button for 6 seconds.
This occurs since I changed to Mavericks. With OS X 10.7 and 10.8 I never had any problem.
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Of course I tried all things crossed my mind, like repairing permissions, deleting preferences of Image Capture, reset PRAM, but this didn't solve the problem.
The HDD has 425 GB of free space. The files I tried to capture with Image Capture are text documents I wanted to scan with 600 dpi b/w into a PDF file.
Now I'm out of any idea what else I can do and hope to get an advice or a hint here.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Matthias

I have that in the console, right after the scan:
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24/03/2014 17:42:02,000 kernel[0]: NVDA(Private): Channel exception! exception type = 0xd = Graphics Engine Error (GR Error 5)
24/03/2014 17:42:02,000 kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0xd = Graphics Engine Error (GR Error 5)
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Image is garbled when scanning with image capture

I have a strange problem scanning using Image Capture and an Epson Workforce 600 printer/scanner/fax.
The preview scan looks like this. When opened in Pixelmator, it looks similar.
After a reboot, the preview images from the scanner are okay, images scan fine but only for a short time. Then it goes back to something like the image above.
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In the end, I did a clean re-installation of the system software -- our iMac was having other issues.
I think that the "garbled" image was a known Pixelmator/Graphics card problem.
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I can print to a Lexmark X4550, but not scan (with Image Capture)

Following tips (by "Lexmark Listens" and others) I succeded in printing (via USB and wifi) to a Lexmark X4550.
But when scanning (via USB) using the Image Capture app (included in Mac OS), Image Capture sees the scanner a couple of seconds, then complains that no scanner is connected (although it still is).
This happens with a MacBook (Pro), but not with another MacBook (white).
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I am having a scanning problem. I’d appreciate it if anyone could explain what’s happening and suggest how to avoid it or how to fix it after the fact. I’m using a large-format scanner, the HP Officejet 7610, with a MacBook Pro, running OS X Yosemite, v.10.10.1. I am using Apple’s Image Capture app, v.6.6, for scanning software. I am scanning some newspapers, with text and photos on the pages, which are about 11” x 14-3/4” in size. I am making multipage PDFs, each about 10 pp., at a resolution of 300 dpi. Sometimes, when I scan a single page or multiple pages, one or more tiny rectangles of scan show up in the resulting PDF, following a normal page or between pages. In the Acrobat Reader, this tiny rectangle shows up as a curious little box, much less than an inch on a side, and when the PDF is printed out, the tiny rectangle is printed, too, as though it were a separate page. Why is this rectangle showing up in my scans? Is there a way to keep from getting it? After it has been made a part of a multipage PDF, is there any way to get rid of it, keeping the rest of the scan?
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Hey there @Rudyard , welcome back
I read through your post about the scanning issues you're having, and I'd like to help!
Please try scanning with the HP Scan software to see if the same quality problems happen, and if so, try these steps in order:
Mac OS X: How to reset the printing system
Repair disk permissions
Restart the Mac
Install the full feature driver: HP Officejet 7610 Wide Format e-All-in-One series Full Feature Software and Drivers
Also install the Apple driver: HP Printer Drivers v3.0 for OS X
I hope that helps, let me know the results!
R a i n b o w 7000I work on behalf of HP
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How to avoid tiny rectangles showing up as separate pages in multipage PDFs scanned with Image Capture?

I'm not sure I'm posting this question in the right forum. I am having a scanning problem. I’d appreciate it if anyone could explain what’s happening and suggest how to avoid it or how to fix it after the fact. I’m using a large-format scanner, the HP Officejet 7610, with a MacBook Pro, running OS X Yosemite, v.10.10.1. I am using Apple’s Image Capture app, v.6.6, for scanning software. I am scanning some newspapers, with text and photos on the pages, which are about 11” x 14-3/4” in size. I am making multipage PDFs, each about 10 pp., at a resolution of 300 dpi. Sometimes, when I scan a single page or multiple pages, one or more tiny rectangles of scan show up in the resulting PDF, following a normal page or between pages. In the Acrobat Reader, this tiny rectangle shows up as a curious little box, much less than an inch on a side, and when the PDF is printed out, the tiny rectangle is printed, too, as though it were a separate page. Why is this rectangle showing up in my scans? Is there a way to keep from getting it? After it has been made a part of a multipage PDF, is there any way to get rid of it, keeping the rest of the scan?

I haven't received any replies to the question I recently posted, but one work-around that HP suggested is to use different scanning software. Instead of Image Capture, I used the HP Scan.app that came with my all-in-one printer. I haven't seen those rectangles in my PDFs since switching.

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I spend my summers scanning old photographs and letters, and this happens to me, too. Sometimes a photo refuses to scan properly. No idea why.
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Help with workflow - out of hard drive space?

Help... not sure the best way to deal with this.
I've got a Quad G5, 2 hard drives... 1 as O/S and the other for storing stuff. Well, my hard drive is full now and I've got a feeling (even if I got a new 500gig hard drive) it would be full again within 6 months. How do I deal with this?
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I can scan using "hide details" since it seems to be a workaround, but I was wondering if someone else has had this problem, and/or if it is a sign that there is a bug somewhere that could mess up my scans. I'm planning on scanning lots of photos and wanted to make sure everything is working properly before I get too deep into this project.

Why use Image Capture when HP's software can do the same thing?

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