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Scanning for dummies

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5 Mar 13th, 2001 

3 Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful

Advantages:
Good price and good functionality

Disadvantages:
The scanner must be on when you boot up your computer if you've got Windows 95

Recommendable Yes:

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Speed

Colour sensitivity

Resolution

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Value For Money

Manunited

Manunited

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Member since:12.03.2001

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All in all a very good scanner and a load of good sofware to go with it. Now when people say this scanner isn't fast, what are they comparing it to because it goes at a nice standard speed.

Of course the speed at which a scanner scans something depends generally on two things: what you are scanning and at what resolution you are scanning it.

If you don't understand the concept of picture resolution I'll quickly explain it now. The scanner will scan the picture as individual coloured dots. It is these dots that are referred to when talking about resolution.

The resolution you scan something is basically the number of these dots per inch (dpi) you want the scanner to scan. Therefore the higher the dpi of the thing you want to scan the longer the scanner will take to scan because it is having to scan the picture in more detail.

As I've said the SNAPSCAN 1212 is just a standard scanner, but at a good competitive price.

The benifits of this scanner include the user friendly, processional software that comes with the scanner to scan and modify your pictures. I bought it just for this reason.

One thing I have against this parallel port version is the fact that if its not turned on when you boot up your computer it will not work until you boot up the computer with the scanner turned on. So if you didn't have it turned on when you booted up and you decide you want to scan something you have to restart the computer with it turned before the software will let you scan. I think this problem applies to Windows 95 users only!
 

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