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Old August 5th, 2008, 06:54 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by Johnny Bravo View Post
A quick question. Does the scanner driver have much bearing on the quality of your scans?
Not really. The quality of the scanner's mechanical ability to copy different scanable media does. This good, but old, review shows how much different models of scanner can deviate in their resulting scans (see page 7 of the review for magazine scan results). The scanning software can have some bearing.

I don't have any comparisons to show but the difference between scans from my Epson Perfection 3200 Photo and CanonScan LiDe 50 is noticeable enough that the former is better at scanning pages. Despite that I use the CanonScan LiDe 50 to do the donkey work of my scans due it's very long bulb life by using LEDs isntead of a fluoresent tube. The Epson scanner gets used only for professional work.
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