Heidelberg
CPS recently provided FLAAR with a professional scanner for test
and review. Linotype-Hell flatbed scanners include a booklet, "30
Minutes to your First Scan."
Flatbed
scanner reviews are a specialty of the FLAAR Digital Imaging Technology
Center. It is difficult for non-specialists to figure out which
brand and which model is the most cost-effective.
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Here
is my proud first scan from the Heidelberg flatbed scanner,
a Guatemalan Maya textile, a bird. Open it up and it is a
potholder, yet on the scanner this becomes a native Central
American art motif for all kinds of use in graphic design.
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The
result is that most institutions and companies buy low-bid, the
cheapest on their list. If you want a cheap scanner, then by all
means order the one with the lowest price. Your results may also
be low-bid.
With
results like the scan above, you can see why we like the Linotype-Hell
Saphir Ultra2 flatbed scanner with its Linocolor interface and software.
Linotype-Hell setup documentation
If
you have training, you can do even better (and faster). Worried
about not being trained? Don't fret. I must admit I have never taken
a course in digital imaging in my life. I just plugged everything
together and pressed the buttons. Voila, a colorful indigenous Maya
textile from Guatemala.
Once
you get all your nice new scanned images, where and how can you
store them? We faced this same dilemma and have worked out a variety
of solutions: burning your own CD-R,
using the new DVD-RAM.,
or developing a RAID
system for your studio (it's easy, we have a 36 GB RAID system
in our own office).
| RAID
is super fast. Let MegaHaus tell you how. |
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RAID system is as easy as hooking two drives together. You get
twice the speed of a single drive with RAID level 0. |
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should you store your scanned images? |
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| DVD-RAM
stores 5.2 GB on a disk that costs under $60 (2.6 GB per side).
A DVD-RAM burner/player costs under $800. How,
where to buy? |
www.digital-photography.org
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