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Main => Artwork => Topic started by: Boz on July 19, 2006, 03:29:26 pm
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Does anyone have this scanner and/or have an opinion about it? I'm not going to be vectoring my side art and control panel graphics and was looking for a reasonably-priced, high-resolution scanner to get the best possible scans. Side art will be easily 4-feet tall from a scanned image of no larger than 4 x 6 inches.
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I bought one of those for work a while back. I am a civil engineer so the fact that you can see through it at what you are scanning was a big feature for me because of how often I deal with 36"x24" blueprints. With this, I can easily scan a blueprint with a series of scans and then attach them together with the included software. A scanner that could do this in one scan would of cost thousands, so like I said this was a big selling point for me. I could see how this would be nice for large arcade graphics also because you could hold it right up to the cabinet and see exactly what will be scanned each time you hit the button (think picture frame with just the glass and the frame and a cord coming off of it).
The only downside that I found was the software they include to attach your scans together really didn't do a very good job. It got easily confused and didn't seem to be able to rotate images where it was needed due to slight differences in how I held the scanner from scan to scan. This really wasn't a problem for me, I just attached them together manually with photoshop.
As far as the quality of the scans, I really can't comment. What I was using it for really didn't require much in the way of resolution so I wouldn't of noticed one way or the other.
HTH
:cheers:
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I have the scanner and really like it. I scan a lot of pictures and the quality is rather good. Of course I did get it around Thanksgiving for 39.99.
-Irishfan11
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I have the scanner and really like it. I scan a lot of pictures and the quality is rather good. Of course I did get it around Thanksgiving for 39.99.
-Irishfan11
Do you recall the highest DPI you've scanned at? I'm curious as to scan quality at VERY high scan resolutions.
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If you go into advanced settings you can scan images up to 19,200 DPI which was like 23GB for a 4x6 picture which is outrageously large. I normally stay around 200 or 300 DPI because I dint need much more than that.
Irishfan11
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I find it to be a good scanner. I use mine for scanning pinball backglasses and playfields to digitally touch up and then have new ones printed.
Two backglasses done this way:
http://www.users.on.net/~bradandpam/pinball/bgscan.html
Roller Disco playfield scanned and stitched, ready for touchup if I want:
http://www.users.on.net/~bradandpam/RollerDisco/rollerdiscoplayfiledA.jpg
About to start work on playfields for 2 x Pinball Pools. Will make up an overlay.