I am in the process of lookng for a scanner that is as cheap as
possible,
but also provides as high quality output as possible, especially for
scanning transparencies.
Looking through sane documentation and checking out which scanners are
readily available in my area (Toronto, Canada) I found that Umax Astra
1200S is both available with a transparency adapter and supported in
sane. It doesn't explicitly say whether the transparency adapter is
supported or special support is necessary, and not being an expert on
those things I wouldn't know. If anyone can enlighten me I would
appreciate it :-)
Anyway, I also found that another scanner from Umax, ie. the 1220S is
available and at almost the same price, but this one supports up til
36bit, which gives me the impression that the colour-dynamics are better
than the ones that support only 24 or 30 bit, ie. the scan head is of
a better quality. If I am wrong on this account, again I would
appreciate
comments.
This scanner isn't mentioned at all in the sane documentation I could
find, and not any other scanner seems to be supported with 36bit, so I
now wonder whether this scanner would function at all with sane? If so,
this is the scanner I would prefer at the moment.
Then, this scanner is available with either a SCSI-2 or a parallel
connector, 1220S or 1220P, and it seems to me that sane is mostly happy
with the SCSI interface. As the parallel port scanners are more
economical
in price, I wonder what it would take to support the same scanner with
both interfaces?
Finally, if anyone knows of a scanner that will scan transparencies of
the size 6cm X 6cm in minimum 300dpi for less than $1000 CDN, other
than the ones mentioned, I would be happy to hear about them :-)
Thank you very much for your time,
Peter
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