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Originally Posted by Jism Jim
I do all my scans with an all-in-one at 300dpi maximum. 4800dpi is absolute overkill for magazines, as magazines do not offer that resolution. A resolution higher than 300dpi will only result in large printing patterns.
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300 dpi is my standard too. However, occasionally 300 dpi scans are vulnerable to Moiré patterns, and sometimes quite noticeable ones, big waves going across the scanned image. I have never managed to get rid of those posthumously with the Moiré-pattern-removal features offered by picture editors. There are only certain mags that are particular vulnerable to that.
To give one of the worst examples I have come across, from a German mag called Casanova:
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Originally Posted by Fleabag
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This is one of Fleabag's scans, but I own the same mag (actually the very same - I think I have bought it off Fleabag at some point) and scanning it at 300 dpi produced the same crappy results. What I do in those cases is scan at 600dpi, and reduce the file size afterwards, sometimes first slightly blurring the image before reducing the size. Not sure whether I did do that in this case, but anyway the result looked like this:
This usually does the trick. I think there has been one or two occasions when I had to resort to really desperate measures and move to 1000dpi, but that is exceptionally rare.