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| tooki:
The first scanner we had was a UMAX Astra 600S (the SCSI version), which cost around $300 in the mid-90s. I loved having it, but man, did it suck by today’s standards… I remember manually retouching scans to get rid of noise. But yeah, back then you had to spend a lot more money to get scanners with low noise. If I needed a really clean scan, I would go to my friend’s dad’s print business and use their $$$$ flatbed. |
| tom66:
I have a cheapo "Canon LiDE" scanner where you can see the RGB lamp scanning the image. I was wondering why my colour documents were coming out a funny tint until I changed the USB cable, which was dropping too much voltage to properly illuminate the green and blue LEDs in the scan head. It's kinda amazing to me that it was still happy enough to scan in that condition. |
| beanflying:
My last dedicated Scanner met with a change of use case ;D Kind of wished I still had it as it is way easier to keep over the Canon Printer carcass for the job. Might need to trawl 2nd hand again. |
| james_s:
I don't remember what mine was, it was a 300 something and had a SCSI interface. It produced quite nice scans as I recall, I never had any issues with it until there wasn't driver support for newer versions of Windows. I remember it could do a surprisingly good job of scanning 3D objects. |
| eti:
A biro. |
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