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- From: jheath@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Jim Heath)
- Subject: Re: Best Full Colour Scanner for the Amiga ??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.215156.20571@CERIS.Purdue.EDU>
- Organization: Center for Environmental and Regulatory Information Systems, Purdue University
- References: <69125@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 21:51:56 GMT
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- From article <69125@cup.portal.com>, by pk-asdg@cup.portal.com (Perry S Kivolowitz):
- > Reji Martin, Prince Edward Island, Canada says:
- >
- >>Can anybody advise me on what is the best full colour
- >>scanner, one that is compatible with the Amiga.
- >>
- >>A couple of scanners are available locally (HP ScanJet IIc
- >>and the Espon 3000c ). But I do not know how they are
- >>attached/run on an Amiga.
- >>
- >>Any help would be greatly appreciated!
- >
- > The EPSON ES-300C has been the best selling color flatbed scanner
- > on the Amiga. So much so, that it won the Amazing Computing
- > Reader's Choice award from 1992. It has been our best selling
- > scanner controller as well, by several orders of magnitude.
- >
- > EPSON will be making some announcements at Comdex next week,
- > which I can't discuss. I'll be able to tell you more about them
- > soon. (ASDG will make related announcements at the same
- > time).
- >
- > RE: HP ScanJetIIc, after sitting on one for more than a year...
- > we'll finally have an announcement to make shortly.
-
- Do you have a list of scanners you support Perry?
-
- Microtek (I think was the name) has a color scanner that achieves
- 600x600 dpi without interpolation. This sounds good to me, but
- how much difference does interpolation make?
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