So, I want to buy a scanner, and I would like to ask some general questions before doing so...
If you have a scanner, would you like to share your experience?
-What is resolution good for? Is 1200 x 1200 dpi enough?
-How long it takes for your scanner to scan an image?
-Can you recommend me some scanner? What scanner are you using?
I need scanner only for scanning traditional art, pencil sketches etc.
Thanks
So, I want to buy a scanner, and I would like to ask some general questions before doing so...
If you have a scanner, would you like to share your experience?
-What is resolution good for? Is 1200 x 1200 dpi enough?
-How long it takes for your scanner to scan an image?
-Can you recommend me some scanner? What scanner are you using?
I need scanner only for scanning traditional art, pencil sketches etc.
Thanks
if you don't have a printer it might be a good idea to invest one of those dual printer/scanner combos.
I use a Epson Stylus CX5500, the thing itself was rather cheap, 60 dollars AUS, but the ink is around 14 dollars per catridge. The printing on it is great enough to put say in a Folio for work, theres also thick matte paper you can buy for it that makes the paper sturdy and makes the image very crisp, it obviously also works well with glossy, but not as well as a laser jet would.
The scanning is decent too. 300dpi is probably as high as you'd want to go for printing and scanning anyway. to Scan a full A4 page at 300dpi it takes around 20-30 seconds.
I'm not sure what kind of size scanner you're looking for but if you need only A4 sized a CX5500 might be useful. Theres surely better scanners out there but the difference may not be too noticable when you resize the work down for digital viewing.
if you don't have a printer it might be a good idea to invest one of those dual printer/scanner combos.
I use a Epson Stylus CX5500, the thing itself was rather cheap, 60 dollars AUS, but the ink is around 14 dollars per catridge. The printing on it is great enough to put say in a Folio for work, theres also thick matte paper you can buy for it that makes the paper sturdy and makes the image very crisp, it obviously also works well with glossy, but not as well as a laser jet would.
The scanning is decent too. 300dpi is probably as high as you'd want to go for printing and scanning anyway. to Scan a full A4 page at 300dpi it takes around 20-30 seconds.
I'm not sure what kind of size scanner you're looking for but if you need only A4 sized a CX5500 might be useful. Theres surely better scanners out there but the difference may not be too noticable when you resize the work down for digital viewing.
So, if I understand well, when I scan drawing in 1200dpi resolution, the size of image will be like 4000px * 5000px (or something like that) right?
What is such a high dpi resolution good for then?
And another one: when I scan in high resolution, and then I resize it, will it have better quality than scanning in low resolution without resizing?
So, if I understand well, when I scan drawing in 1200dpi resolution, the size of image will be like 4000px * 5000px (or something like that) right?
What is such a high dpi resolution good for then?
And another one: when I scan in high resolution, and then I resize it, will it have better quality than scanning in low resolution without resizing?
Yes the mesaurments of an image will be something very large.
Not too much. The different scans in different sizes sometimes can produce changes in an image liek this: link
generally you don't need to scan in a huge difference of resolutions but the higher the resolution, the more information the scan can obtain. More information sometimes is not always good though.
Yes the mesaurments of an image will be something very large.
Not too much. The different scans in different sizes sometimes can produce changes in an image liek this: [url=http://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?t=1576]link[/url]
generally you don't need to scan in a huge difference of resolutions but the higher the resolution, the more information the scan can obtain. More information sometimes is not always good though.
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