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Advantages: Speed Disadvantages: Quality (Only a small disadvantage)
The Canon CanoScan 8800f
The canon CanoScan 8800f is a near perfect scanner. It is used in our school and after using it for recent Art coursework i was very impressed. It took around ten seconds to scan an A4 sheet, which is pretty quick in my opinion. The quality is also good. The colours come out well and although it was not perfect, it's hard to expect a perfect scan of a watercolour painting, as the colours were not bold. After asking my ... ...on my work, i decided i would have to check out what it comes with online. I was surprised to see that our school's Adobe photoshop Elements 5, a great program, had come with the scanner. Also included is ArcSoft photo studio 5, a not so great piece of software. Anyway, back to the scanner itself. As well as the scanner and software, it includes a trio of plastic adaptors. One is for 35mm filmstrips, one is for 35mm mounted slides and one is for ...
Advantages: simple instructions prints in glorious detail Disadvantages: highlights lines, fade marks
flat bed scanners can be a joy or a nightmare when used.
they can brilliantly pick out all the detail on your picture or ruin it
with producing foldmarks when laid for processing.
consider the use of white or black backing sheets when dealing
with small pictures or 2 pictures in a group.
when combining two letters into one make sure you have
cut and pasted to be made 'invisable before printing'.
the item is easily understood and instructions ...
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Advantages: Excellent quality when scanning slides and negatives Disadvantages: Professional mode could cause problems for the novice used
...Previously I had the Epson 2480 and although this was good, it is no match for the 4490,expected really with the time elasped between the release of the models.
With the resolution set at least 2400dpi and with only unsharp mask and colour restoration selected the faded slides and neagatives were nearly as new. There are a few points that should be noted. If you are a novice and just want to scan something quickly without having to set different ... ...selecting colour restoration and Background correction when they are not needed, you can have a negative effect on what would have been not such a bad scan, if these items were left alone. Also, as with many scanners if you want a good result but with an equally fast time for scanning,you won't get it. You need to move up in the market for quality and speed.
All in all I wouldn't change the scanner with another in the same range. The digital ICE ...
Advantages: Fabulous quality for scanned documents, both colour and B&W Disadvantages: Somewhat slow when scanning at highest resolutions
...include here. You also have Canon ScanGear included on the software CD which is a very basic utility for scanning your items if you don’t want all the additional features offered by the other software packages included.
I find my scanner very reliable - not once have I had to rescan something because it got an error halfway through and it's barely audible, i.e. pretty silent compared to my previous home scanner (which was a Mustek something or other). ... ...100 is a flatbed scanner which uses a 3 colour (RGB) LED as its light source. * The optional resolution is 2400 x 4800 dpi and you can choose use anything from 25-19200 dpi as your resolution according to your needs. * Letter size is the maximum document size you can use on the glass platen which is 8.5 x 11 inches (or 216 x 279mm).
* The scanner weighs about 1.6 kilos (3.5 pounds).
* The dimensions of the scanner are 9.9 x 14.6 x 1.6 in or 250 ...