Digital BW, The Print

vinyo88 wrote:

> ---
> If you use the Epson 2450 be prepared to wait. I used a friends this
> weekend and it took over 15 min to scan a b&w 4x5 neg at 600 dpi. I
> have 109 to scan from a trip out west and I don't know if I will live
> long enough to complete it.
>
That makes NO sense at all.. What software were you using to scan it..? 
 The only way the time could be that high is if the scan was done at 
2400 dpi and then downsampled..  

I have a 2450, it's even running on a USB 1.1 port... no USB 2.0, no 
FireWire

Lemme run a scan.. Hang on..

Ok, the 4x5 scan took about 1' 15'' with another 40 seconds to save the 
file. That's whether I used VueScan OR SilverFast...


I only see four possibilities:

1)    Your friend's scanner has bad firmware or some kind of hardware 
problem

2)    The system it is running on has some weird problem..

3)    Software is installed incorrectly.

4)    You are running the scanner software improperly..


Of those, it sounds most likely that you are doing a scan at the full 
2400dpi and then downsampling in the software prior to writing the file 
to the hard drive..

I'm definitely no shill for EPSON, but this scanner is one of the best 
ProSumer flatbeds I have seen.

[Keith]
 
 




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