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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:16:00 GMT
- Reply-To: Ellen Lorang <0005403596@MCIMAIL.COM>
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- From: Ellen Lorang <0005403596@MCIMAIL.COM>
- Subject: Scanning
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- Thank you, thank you Jeff Bone for today's mail with the Scanning
- FAQs. I've never paid too much attention to them before, being limited
- to a hand held scanner, monochrome monitor, 300 dpi laser printer.
- I use my scanner for limited scanning of line art which I then trace
- in Illustrator. I put out lots of newsletters, and get halftones
- made traditionally, and settle for either 300 dpi and a lot of
- paste up or paying for lino, then a lot of paste up.
-
- So I'm getting excited about the new crop of 600 dpi printers,
- especially the 11x17 (and the hopeful reduced prices). I'm saving
- my pennies for a grayscale card for my 2-page monitor, a grayscale
- flatbed scanner, and a 600 dpi 11-17 printer. Which leads me to
- my question --
-
- Will I be satisfied? The scans would be primarily photos, often
- from color originals, or people for newsletters, to be printed
- on 60# offset or web offset. I look forward to the obvious
- benefits -- being able to manipulate the scans, size them all
- independently (right now I gang them to save $$), etc. But will
- a scan from say a HP scanjet at 600 (or should it be lower?) and
- output at 600 dpi be a significant reduction in quality? Of
- course, text would be a huge improvement over 300, I realize,
- and a big cost savings over paying lino costs.
- But will I
- still end up wanting to get halftones done traditionally?
-
- Also, Jeff -- you mentioned the "new QMS 960" in your FAQ. Is
- that a typo, and you mean the 860, or if not, what are the
- specs on the 960?
-
- TIA, Ellen Lorang (elorang@MCImail.com)
-