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February 15th, 2021, 10:41 PM | #1 |
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Uh oh...trouble...
Scanner was working fine and then suddenly this showed up. Rebooted the thing and tried another scan and it was still there. It wasn't consistent in its prominence each time I rescanned....some scans were worse than others. Tried DPI changes and that didn't help. Shut it down and waited an hour and then fired it back up and it was gone on the first scan I tried.
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February 18th, 2021, 08:52 PM | #2 |
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So, uh...who makes a decent scanner these days? My current (and possibly not long for this world) scanner is an HP Scanjet G4010 which I must have bought 11 years ago.
It wasn't much but it did the job. I would want something similar as a replacement (though I don't need the slide scanning ability now that I've done all the slides I needed scanning). I'm not looking to spend a ton of money for a new scanner. I use the current one a fraction of the amount I used the scanner I did 4,500+ scans over 3.5 years when I was on a scanning tear and going through Swedish Erotica issues like a bowling ball mowing down pins. Actually, I'm a little disappointed this scanner is faltering considering how comparatively little scanning was done with it (though I did hold on to it more than twice as long as the previous one). The only thing I figure that is probably a non-starter is a side opening scanner. That would be a problem for scanning mags. particularly hard spine mags, which benefit more from top opening scan beds. Any recommendations? Last edited by DARPA; February 18th, 2021 at 09:20 PM.. |
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February 20th, 2021, 06:43 PM | #3 |
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Sorry, can't help you much with this. I buy my scanners second-hand at a thrift store.
But out of the brands that I have tried I prefer Canon and Epson.
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February 21st, 2021, 05:15 PM | #4 |
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Thanks anyways. I'd feel a little squirrely perusing the second hand market for anything that's mechanical in nature...unless I had the cash to burn (which I don't).
I had enough of a headache last year getting a used VCR so that I could digitize the VHS tapes I was buying. I burned through three of them in a few months before landing one that hasn't failed on me (yet). VHS players are a bit of different scenario though...you don't have much choice but to pursue the second hand market. The good news is nobody wants old VHS tapes generally so I can get those very hard to find out of print porn movies with little to no competition and get them cheap(ish). I got one I'm about to nail today and I'll probably be the only bidder. It seems like the scanner market has moved away from what it used to be like to something different. The flat bed open from the rear model is still the best type IMO but so many have gone into the paper feed lid model that opens from the side. Yuck... |
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February 26th, 2021, 05:36 AM | #5 |
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Epson Perfection V600 is my better scanner. But I like my Canoscan LIDE 210 as a workhorse scanner. Small, light, only needs a USB cable and reasonably fast at the resolutions suitable for magazine scanning. Calibrated by scanning an IT87 target, both give pretty good color accuracy. The Epson is still a bit better, but it's bigger and slower too. And I agree with Jism Jim. There are tons of used scanners available for little money. Chances are they haven't seen a lot of use either. Lastly I'm a big fan of Vuescan as a scanning app.
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February 26th, 2021, 08:32 AM | #6 |
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Another Canon LIDE vote
Cheap, slim, so can be hidden away, decent quality.
Canon's Cano/scan and IJ Scan Utility are about as intuitive and user friendly as particle physics but Windows' inbuilt software works fine. |
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I'll be trying out an Epson V600 this week as a candidate to replace my V30, which was working great but has become a bit glitchy lately. With the V600 I can also scan/develop negatives and film frames due to the insane DPI it can accomplish and the ICE software. I have tons of old negatives that would be great to re-develop. However, if it's not substantially better image quality I may switch it out for the V39...but I'll lose the film and negative scanning ability...230 bucks vs. 99 bucks.
I'd really like to ditch the flatbed scanners entirely for magazine scans and get something like a high-end sheet fed Brother or Epson that accepts ledger size (11x17) for quick workflow. However, it really pains me to disassemble the magazines and I'd be paranoid about a bad jam damaging a page. That's a dilemma since I'd like to get these old magazines archived before the passage of eons. I think really, though, any decent scanner (with good settings) plus a bit of light work in Photoshop can make any scan approach remaster quality. |
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Slightly off topic, sort of, but is there any point to getting an IT87 target if the monitor hasn't been calibrated to match the printer, as someone may wish to print out a larger version of a single pic from a spread of several pics on a page?
Also, does an IT87 target prevent the need to faff about in a photo editing program if the pic/page that is to be scanned has an odd colour-caste?
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