Digital BW, The Print

Am adding an EPSON 2450 scanner ($349) to our two Polaroid SprintScan 
4000's.  It will be used for scanning larger transparencies, chromes, 
and negatives, as well as for print scanning.  I will use VueScan to do 
the scans.

I would appreciate any tips, advice, or disagreement with the above plan...


[Keith]
 
 

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I've been using this scanner for a few days. Bought one at buy.com and it
had lots of dust under the glass. Sent it back. Bought one at CompUSA (for
an added $50 or so) and it also had dust under the glass. Looked at my
girlfriend's Perfection 1240U and it, too, had dust under the glass. Seems
to be a problem with the Perfection series (my couple-year-old Canon didn't
have dust under the glass). On the other hand, it's a nice machine. Decent,
if not dedicated-film-scanner-quality, scans of black and white negaties,
and very nice scans of prints. Haven't tried it with transparencies, but
reviewers and users whose reviews I've read have liked it for that, too. The
dust is a problem on prints more than on negatives, at least in my
premliminary experiments.

- David

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Am adding an EPSON 2450 scanner ($349) to our two Polaroid SprintScan
4000's.  It will be used for scanning larger transparencies, chromes,
and negatives, as well as for print scanning.  I will use VueScan to do
the scans.

I would appreciate any tips, advice, or disagreement with the above plan...


[Keith]



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David J. Bookbinder wrote:

> I've been using this scanner for a few days. Bought one at buy.com and it
> had lots of dust under the glass. Sent it back. Bought one at CompUSA (for
> an added $50 or so) and it also had dust under the glass. Looked at my
> girlfriend's Perfection 1240U and it, too, had dust under the glass. Seems
> to be a problem with the Perfection series.


Yeah, I had heard that dust issue in regards to 1650's but not 2450s.. UGH

Given my past experiences with EPSON, something tells me they will 
likely repair the damn thing or cross-ship a refurb with little argument 
(although there may be MUCH taking of my name in vain at EPSON HQ).  I 
doubt they want to provoke another tussle..

However, I'm wondering how this dust gets there. Even if it were a 
design problem and the dust came in through a vent, proper packing 
should prevent that until you set up and use the unit for a bit...  I'm 
betting it's acquired during packing or during transport.. If it were 
before packing, I'm relatively sure the items would never be ok'd for 
packing.  Still, EPSON must be aware of the issue by now...  Wonder why 
they haven't changed the packing methodology?

Then again, they don't include $5 USB cables with $500 printers...

[Keith]
 
 

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At 08:53 PM 3/18/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Am adding an EPSON 2450 scanner ($349) to our two Polaroid SprintScan 
>4000's.  It will be used for scanning larger transparencies, chromes, 
>and negatives, as well as for print scanning.  I will use VueScan to do 
>the scans.
>
>I would appreciate any tips, advice, or disagreement with the above plan...
>
>
>[Keith]
> 
> 
Keith,

Go for it! I have been running mine constantly re-doing a lot of old 35mm
b/w negs and printing piezos.  My PLIII is getting dusty. Why use VueScan
over SilverFast? 

AZ

Alan Zinn wrote:

>
>
> Go for it! ... Why use VueScan
> over SilverFast?
>
>
I may well, in the end, find myself using SilverFast, BUT, I have been 
using VueScan with the SprintScan 4000's, so it makes sense to stay with 
that initially.  One less transition to make up front makes it easier to 
identify problems in my workflow..


[Keith]
 
 

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At 10:20 PM 3/19/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Alan Zinn wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Go for it! ... Why use VueScan
>> over SilverFast?
>>
>>
>I may well, in the end, find myself using SilverFast, BUT, I have been 
>using VueScan with the SprintScan 4000's, so it makes sense to stay with 
>that initially.  One less transition to make up front makes it easier to 
>identify problems in my workflow..
>
>
>[Keith]
> 

Keith,

The program you know how to run is always the best one.  I haven't tried
ViewScan but hear it is good.  There are image quality differences among
various software independent of the scanner's performance. My limited
understanding of this suggests that is in the way they handle automatic
functions rather than manual. I have found SilverFast on auto to have an
uncanny ability to nail the image each time without requiring much
adjustment in PS before printing. 

My web page with the 2450 review is back - I think :-( 

AZ
Maker of Lookaround panoramic camera.

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