27 Nov
2019
27 Nov
'19
12:01 p.m.
On Nov 27, 2019, at 2:56 PM, Jason T via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 10:12 AM Christian Corti via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Another problem with bilevel scans is that, on some machines at least, they can be very
noisy. That's what I saw on the copier/scanner at the office. For good scans I use
gray scale scanning, with post-processing if desired to convert to clean bilevel data,
without all the noise. Not only does it make looking at the material more pleasant, but
it also makes the files much smaller -- noise doesn't compress well.
paul
My recommendation: use a proper multi-function
copier (the big copiers)
that can also scan to network. I currently use our big Konica-Minolta
bizhub 754. Although it'a b/w copier, it can also scan in color. This
These are great for cranking through big stacks of paper, but watch
out for the presets. Some (like the older Xerox I used to use at
work) would scan to "TIFF"...which was really a JPG-compressed image
in a TIFF wrapper. So even my 600dpi bilevel scans would have
compression artifacts.