Are you sure it's the scanner and not the software driving it? I would check to see if the manufacturer has an updated driver with more options available. The two scanners I have used have plenty of options. The really old one has had at least two driver upgrades which corrected some nuisance problems. I'd complain to the company as well. -Ralph -------------------
Cynthia wrote: > One difficulty we have with purchasing technology is that most of the people > who sell it don't seem to have that much knowledge about the products. In > particular, we are shopping for a scanner. We have one which we have been > very unhappy with for a number of reasons. > > Can anyone point me toward somewhere that I can really find out the > differences between the different products which are currently on the > market? > > One problem with scanners I've used (which I've had with two different > scanners) is that they seem to scan things darker than they actually are, > which loses some of the detail. > > The other problem is that it seems the more they try to make the software > "user friendly", the more control you lose. So we have problems like that > when I try to scan line art on the one we currently have, my only two > choices are "Hundreds of shades of gray" or "millions of colors". Well, I > want black and white - but since that's not a choice it scans the paper as > well as the image and I have a huge file and a lot of background (its NEVER > really totally white) that I don't want (I finally got around this by > telling it that it is scanning "text", not "image" - but that sometimes > creates other problems). On the scanner in the office next door, you can't > tell it what resolution you want. So I have to fool around with the other > choices and make multiple scans until I get one that turns out to have the > resolution I want (not a problem when scanning for the web, but I've had the > dickens of a time getting really good resolution out of it for print > images). The sales people just look at my blankly when I ask about these > things. > > How do other people handle these kinds of issues when shopping for > technological products? > -cynthia > > **Folkschool-list archives are at: > <http://www.mint.net/folkschool/helpnet/archives.htm> > Sponsored by Pine Tree Folk School > **Folkschool-list archives are at: <http://www.mint.net/folkschool/helpnet/archives.htm> Sponsored by Pine Tree Folk School ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84vzQ.a9gqS3 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
