scanning Tips

[yaroa]

Any good sites on scanning?
I just bought a scanner, now I need to learn how to use it http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif. I intend to use it to scan and save some documents, bank statements, etc. and photos.
Any sugestions would be apreciated.

[Bsdboy]

http://home.att.net/~cthames/Content1.htm http://www.scantips.com/

Bsdboy

[zimzimbar]

I found 'A Few Scanning Tips' by Wayne Fulton
www.scantips.com (http://www.scantips.com) to be a good place to start to get an overview of the different resolution requirements for scanning images for pc screen/internet/printer etc. Also good intro to different graphics file types. Worth the time to read all of his stuff.

Zimmie

[Richard_Cranium72]

Web photos @72dpi
photos for printing 300dpi
text documents use OCR, optical character recognition
slides or negatives 9600dpi

A 8x10 scanned at 300 dpi is about 26mb file, very large.

Glossy Color Photos only contain 200-300 dpi of information.

hope this helps

DrVette

[NDC]

Personally, I do all my scanning at 800dpi and print them at 800dpi.... And yes, you can notice a difference between printing images at 300dpi and 800dpi. That's why you see most printers these days with high dpi output. Some printers such as HP 9x series and up will print as high as 2400x1200dpi. Personally, I found that printing anything higher than 800dpi is almost unoticeable to the naked eye.

If you work with non-actual size images and want to stretch them when you print it, Corel Draw is an excellent application to that. I noticed that most layout applications cause the images to Halo when stretching them for printing, but Corel Draw minimizes this problem.


300dpi would be the standard dpi for most desktop publishing companies which prints acceptable images without wasting time. As Richard has explained above, using a high value for the DPI will produce larger files and will take that much longer to print.

[This message has been edited by NDC (edited 05-24-2001).]

[yaroa]

Thanks you all, as always, very helpfull

[MiKe85]

zimzimbar: http://www.scantips.com is a good site
I wish i knew about it when i first bought a scanner http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[mousepotato]

...I remember when I first tried a 8X10...I figured 2400dpi would make a good pic...
...35 minutes later I had a 1.4gig picture that would'nt work in my print shop!!!!!!!!!!!....duh...live and learn!!!

[This message has been edited by mousepotato (edited 05-25-2001).]