[bksvol-discuss] Re: Learning to Scan Books
- From: socly@xxxxxxxxx
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- Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 18:23:08 -0500
Ditto Tiffany's comment. I had to be told, but it's true -- the lid is just to
keep the platen from getting dusty. You have to press the book down, especially
at the spine, firmly -- not so hard as to possibly crack the glss but pretty
firmly. You'll get the hang of it with practice. If it's not held down firmly
enough your scan will have lots of errors -- possibly be unreadable. If held
down and the distinction between thype and page are good, you'll get a pretty
good clean scan.
Also, some people recommend the grey setting (I think that's waht it's called)
rather than the black-and-white. I don't like it because it's much slower and
I'd rather fix errors after scanning than wait for the slow scan.
Let us know, please, how you like the 4180. I understand scanners wear out
after a while, and while I hope mine won't, especially since now I'm scanning
less and validating more, I'd thinking ahead in case I have to replace it.
Cindy
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From: "Tiffany H. Jessen" <tjessen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Learning to Scan Books
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 17:00:25 -0500
>
> I don't know if it's recommended by many others, but I personally do not
> ever close the lid when it's in use. In order to not cut letters or words
> off of the inner ends of lines you'll have to push the book's spine tightly
> down on the glass anyways, so the closing of the lid is just one more thing
> for you to contend with.
> However, in order to protect the glass from scratches dust and other things
> I do of course close it after I'm done.
> Another good thing you can do is to use the optimize option in the scan
> menu. When using this feature, you hold the book down and it will scan the
> same page over a few times and it'll pick the best scanning settings for
> scanning that particular book.
> Neither option is necessarily essential for a good scan, but I personally
> find better results these ways..
> Tiff
>
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