You
can use a flatbed scanner to document all your valuables.
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Different
animal stamps scan
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Insurance
companies require documentation of your valuables so buying a scanner
is a worthwhile investment.
If
you have a stamp collection, you can make your own album. Just scan
the stamps and then print them on a color laser printer (we recommend
the QMS).
You
can now get color laser at 11x17 or oversize tabloid (full-bleed 11.7
x 17.7 inches on 13x19 inch paper).
Just
be sure you do not reproduce the stamps at actual size (that is
illegal). And be absolutely sure you do not attempt to scan, photocopy,
or reproduce money in current circulation (don't worry, you cannot
reproduce the watermarks or the reflective counterfeiting protection).
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On
the stamps I altered details with an airbrush to avoid this problem.
If
you have a stamp collection, your album has empty spaces for the
missing stamps (all the expensive ones your spouse won't let you
buy). But if you scan the stamps you do have, you can make an album
which is completely filled.
Besides,
why pay someone else to create an album when you can make one yourself?
Here
are some sample stamp scans. It is rather hard to find an album
for plate blocks, so I just made my own. These are stamps I collected
in my younger days.
How
large an object can you scan? How about a pistol or revolver! At
the moment I have only several letter-sized flatbed scanners, but
with a larger Linotype-Hell scanner you can go up to 11x17, for
heavier artillery
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Scan
of a bunch of stamps
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