31 Jan
2006
31 Jan
'06
3:20 p.m.
Richard wrote:
You have very bad scanner software then. I buy Microtek scanners
exclusively because the scanner software is extremely flexible and
exact. If I want a 12-bit grayscale, I get it. If I want descreening
with a 150 LPI matrix, I get it.
Even with bad software, use everything that you can that you know isn't
messed up. This is because most scanner software/drivers (that comes
bundled with the scanner, at least) work in the scanner's native
colorspace, which almost certainly exceeds yours. I always do level
correction in the scanner software because does all the fixups at 40-bit
(my scanner's depth) and I get a better result than if I had dumped into
a 24-bit file and adjusted levels after the fact.
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I mean that, in
a scanning context, if you see a "line art" setting, it
normally produces a 1bpp result.
Yeah. Most front end stupid user software for scanners produces the
shittiest results, IMO. I always end up scanning at high res, down
filtering in software and then quantizing and the scanner software
always wants to do stupid things to *help* me. The HP scanner front
end was absolutely atrocious; the builtin scanner wizard in WinXP made
me more productive!