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Scanner help!
I used to use an old Visioneer scanner, then got this HP PSC 1210, which is
extremely good at scanning documents and images, it can go up to 9600 dpi. The problem is when I try scanning a coin. The image comes out extremely blocky. With the old scanner (which was at least 5 years old), it was crystal clear. Here is a scan at 1200 dpi: http://smallurl.com?i=18690 It's just as bad at any higher resolution. It's not due to file compression, because I have the settings so that the image isn't compressed at all, and it was originally saved as an uncompressed tif (and it look that bad). The image looks just as blocky directly from the scanner preview image, so it must be something with the scanner. Any suggestions? |
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On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 03:47:20 -0400, "Brian" wrote:
I used to use an old Visioneer scanner, then got this HP PSC 1210, which is extremely good at scanning documents and images, it can go up to 9600 dpi. The problem is when I try scanning a coin. The image comes out extremely blocky. With the old scanner (which was at least 5 years old), it was crystal clear. Here is a scan at 1200 dpi: http://smallurl.com?i=18690 It's just as bad at any higher resolution. It's not due to file compression, because I have the settings so that the image isn't compressed at all, and it was originally saved as an uncompressed tif (and it look that bad). The image looks just as blocky directly from the scanner preview image, so it must be something with the scanner. Any suggestions? Try scanning at 150 or 200 dpi and see if they don't come out looking better. Cliff |
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Nope. At 200 dpi, It's unreadable and looks like an old blocky video game
graphic. At 600 dpi, it's just as bad as at 1200 dpi. It's almost as if the scanner can't handle the edges of the images on the coin. "Cliff" wrote in message ... On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 03:47:20 -0400, "Brian" wrote: I used to use an old Visioneer scanner, then got this HP PSC 1210, which is extremely good at scanning documents and images, it can go up to 9600 dpi. The problem is when I try scanning a coin. The image comes out extremely blocky. With the old scanner (which was at least 5 years old), it was crystal clear. Here is a scan at 1200 dpi: http://smallurl.com?i=18690 It's just as bad at any higher resolution. It's not due to file compression, because I have the settings so that the image isn't compressed at all, and it was originally saved as an uncompressed tif (and it look that bad). The image looks just as blocky directly from the scanner preview image, so it must be something with the scanner. Any suggestions? Try scanning at 150 or 200 dpi and see if they don't come out looking better. Cliff |
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Nope. At 200 dpi, It's unreadable and looks like an old blocky video game
graphic. At 600 dpi, it's just as bad as at 1200 dpi. It's almost as if the scanner can't handle the edges of the images on the coin. "Cliff" wrote in message ... On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 03:47:20 -0400, "Brian" wrote: I used to use an old Visioneer scanner, then got this HP PSC 1210, which is extremely good at scanning documents and images, it can go up to 9600 dpi. The problem is when I try scanning a coin. The image comes out extremely blocky. With the old scanner (which was at least 5 years old), it was crystal clear. Here is a scan at 1200 dpi: http://smallurl.com?i=18690 It's just as bad at any higher resolution. It's not due to file compression, because I have the settings so that the image isn't compressed at all, and it was originally saved as an uncompressed tif (and it look that bad). The image looks just as blocky directly from the scanner preview image, so it must be something with the scanner. Any suggestions? Try scanning at 150 or 200 dpi and see if they don't come out looking better. Cliff |
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On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 12:09:52 -0400, "Brian" wrote:
Nope. At 200 dpi, It's unreadable and looks like an old blocky video game graphic. At 600 dpi, it's just as bad as at 1200 dpi. It's almost as if the scanner can't handle the edges of the images on the coin. "Cliff" wrote in message .. . On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 03:47:20 -0400, "Brian" wrote: I used to use an old Visioneer scanner, then got this HP PSC 1210, which is extremely good at scanning documents and images, it can go up to 9600 dpi. The problem is when I try scanning a coin. The image comes out extremely blocky. With the old scanner (which was at least 5 years old), it was crystal clear. Here is a scan at 1200 dpi: http://smallurl.com?i=18690 It's just as bad at any higher resolution. It's not due to file compression, because I have the settings so that the image isn't compressed at all, and it was originally saved as an uncompressed tif (and it look that bad). The image looks just as blocky directly from the scanner preview image, so it must be something with the scanner. Any suggestions? Try scanning at 150 or 200 dpi and see if they don't come out looking better. Cliff Brian, With my Canon scanner everything looks like krap unless I set it to "color photo" and 200 dpi (but then any slabbed coin looks like krap no matter what). Cliff |
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