Re: high end drum scans
Re: high end drum scans
- Subject: Re: high end drum scans
- From: email@hidden (Lee Blevins)
- Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 14:49:48 -0400
- Organization: Digital Graphics, Inc.
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The brilliance of the flextight is by using that flexible carrier they
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created the convenience of a flatbed with the sharpness of a drum. No
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gels, no newton rings, no cleanup, no small feat.
And no spot free scans.
The primary reason for oil mounting is to get a clean scan from a high
enlargement. It's not the defects in the drum that are the problem. It's
the tiny abrasions and microscopic dust that settle on the original that
are the problem.
No matter how you clean, the second that the original passes through the
air after you clean it, it dirties it again.
I'll take an oil mounted drum scan over anything I've seen from any
flatbed any day.
I went to demo a Scitex smart scanner and while they claimed they could
oil mount, they couldn't demo doing it.
I spoke to a number of Smart Scanner owners who told me that the oil
mounting on flatbeds was a hit or miss operation.
At my company, we oil (Kami) every scan. You can't beat it for clean
scans and brilliant reproductions.