Re: Cheap scanners
Re: Cheap scanners
- Subject: Re: Cheap scanners
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 09:08:07 EST
In a message dated 12/5/00 1:18:54 AM, email@hidden writes:
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Has anyone messed with profiling a cheap $320 scanner like the Epson 1640SU
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photo with something like Monaco EZ color?
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The cheap thing works great for $320, except that the colors are all over
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the map and not consistant scan-to-scan. The TWAIN software is primitive.
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The DMax CCD noise is better than the $1,500 Microtek Artix 1100 I tried,
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although Microtek told me therefore the Artix 1100 was probably defective.
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Of course the Artix 1100 had great color right out of the box without even
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running any of the included calibration programs and targets.
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By those standards every PowerLook I ever tested must be defective... I
believe you are coming up against one of two things: auto adjustment (not
unheard of in low cost Epsons <G>) or the less accurate light source.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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