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Flatbed Scanners

by Laura

Feb 4, 2009

I am looking for a mac compatible scanner for 2 dimensional artwork 11 X 17" The scanned images will be used for the web. Any recommendations on features to look for?

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Neal Almost any scanner should suffice. Cannon scanners are Mac compatible, and quite reliable. If you ever intend to print high quality copies of original art you'd want a 24 or 32 bit OPTICAL scanner. Not one that uses interpolation to provide 24 or 32 bit image files.

You're certain a document camera wouldn't meet your needs better?
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Feb 5, 2009

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Laura Thank you Neal. I never considered a document camera as an option. I'm going to see what options exist for document cameras since I hadn't considered that before and am not really sure how they work. Basically we would like to scan artwork that students have created and put it on the web. When we've tried taking photos of the images, it's never qui...See More

Feb 5, 2009

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Neal You don't need much resolution for the web. . . 72 to 100 dpi is sufficient.

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On 2/05/09, Laura wrote: > Thank you Neal. I never considered a document camera as an > option. I'm going to see what options exist for document cameras > since I hadn't considered that before and am not really sure how > they work. Basica...See More

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