listmailgoeshere at
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Hi list,
I'd like to pick your collective brains, if I may?
...
So - does anyone know of a make/model scanner which
has a high
(ideally 100 pages or more) sheet-feed capacity, is fast (ideally
SCSI, maybe USB2, Firewire is third choice) and produces good results
for this sort of thing? New or secondhand is fine.
Get a scanner that does duplexing in a single pass. This means it has
CCDs on both sides of the paper. Scanners which have a mechanical
contraption to flip over each page are very much slower than if you read
all the fronts, manually flip them over, and then read all backs.
I fell for the intentionally misleading HP description of their scanjet
8270. The summary description made it sound like it had dual CCDs, but
in fact it doesn't. I now use it only in simplex mode and scan fronts
and backs in separate passes.
These days, for most pages, I scan 1 bpp @ 400 dpi. I sometimes do
covers in color if the original is in color, but then I also scan at
lower resolution, since such covers often have only very large fonts on
them and don't require 400 dpi.