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SE Valued Member United States 256 Posts	Posted 03/11/2007 08:37 am Anyone know anything good or bad about Canon scanners? I am looking for a good, COMPACT, inexpensive scanner to scan misc. items. My current All-In-One printer/scanner is terrible with no depth of field and unless the object is lying dead flat on the window it will be out of focus. I saw this one advertized. Seems like it is capable but also seems awful cheap. Thanks for any help. http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/c...odelid=14003 Report this Post to the Staff

SsuperDdave Moderator United States 23522 Posts	Posted 03/11/2007 10:19 am I use an Epson V100. It's capable of significantly higher resolution than the Canon, and has enough depth of field for me to apply my tilted-coin luster correction. I couldn't recommend it more highly. Best yet, there's a rebate for it. Here it is for $44.49 at Newegg, after the rebate: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...E16838110017 Report this Post to the Staff
Morgan Fred Rest in Peace United States 2684 Posts	Posted 03/11/2007 11:36 am Steve, I've had four scanners: one very compact, one which was "average" size, one which isn't compact at all and an HP three-in-one machine which suffered the same problems you state - lack of resolution. The first "average" scanner and the compact were both Canons, but neither had very good resolution. I finally sprung the bucks for a higher resolution scanner -an HP 3970- which I still use, but is quite large although it does very well for scanning slabbed coins, the greatest problem I had with the smaller machines (especially the 3in1). It seems good resolution comes with size. And price. Fred Report this Post to the Staff
ageka Pillar of the Community Belgium 2078 Posts	Posted 03/11/2007 2:53 pm Fred My computer is five years old and I may have to buy a new one but the preasant motherboard still got an ISA slot with programmed television selector for telextext and half parallel and half USB 1 So that my scanner runs on a parrallel over the printer to the computer . ( Windows 98 SE and no driver upgrades available ) What is the best gold coin scanner around do you think ? I guess it would be a photoscanner since I do not have any slabs This is what that fotoscanner can do ( the field in the stars was sandblasted to give some kind of matte ) Image: 100 Roebels 1988.jpg 54.84 KB Edited by ageka 03/11/2007 2:54 pm Report this Post to the Staff
SsuperDdave Moderator United States 23522 Posts	Posted 03/11/2007 3:34 pm Here's an unretouched scan from my V100 - note that the Half Sovereign is the more lustrous coin, and therefore appears darker in the scan. I don't know how this rates in the quality scale. I own no Proof gold with which to make a specific comparison to ageka's beautiful example. Report this Post to the Staff
ageka Pillar of the Community Belgium 2078 Posts	Posted 03/12/2007 1:23 pm Superdave I do not understand that scan I will post a 1910 and 1914 and you will see what I mean That reflection I only get with nowadays coins like the 2005 sovereign or with coins that have been cleaned in the past The coins I show were bought for melt in the far past Image: Sovereign 1910.jpg 38.71 KB Report this Post to the Staff
ageka Pillar of the Community Belgium 2078 Posts	Posted 03/12/2007 1:25 pm 1914 first year of World War Image: Sovereign 1914.jpg 39.86 KB Report this Post to the Staff
ageka Pillar of the Community Belgium 2078 Posts	Posted 03/12/2007 1:31 pm The only problem my scanner got is with high reflective surfaces without contrast to show it against Like this 2005 half sov still in its ugly plastic mint blister Image: Sovereign 2005 half.jpg 39.62 KB Report this Post to the Staff
ageka Pillar of the Community Belgium 2078 Posts	Posted 03/25/2007 1:55 pm My latest scanner pic Report this Post to the Staff
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