Digital BW, The Print

I haven't seen any scanner software that *couldn't* get a good scan 
so long as you knew what you're doing, but some make it easier (and 
don't do annoying things like always trying to revert to auto 
sharpening etc.)... Vuescan is a reasonable package to standardize on 
for all scanning (like I did).  Personally, I thought the Epson 
software was fine... didn't like the way SilverFast worked... but it 
did work... I think most people's mistake is to expect scanning 
software to do a good job *post* processing during the scan... big 
mistake... do it in PhotoShop or maybe GIMP (if you've already spent 
every last penny on a scanner;)

mark

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> > All in all, it DOES matter what scanner and software combination 
you use =
> (i=
> > nteresting 
> > how no one is talking about SOFTWARE!!!). 
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