Re: scanners for oversized materials

[Tim Au Yeung]

Title: Message

Hello Jessica,

 

Depending on what you're looking for (vis a viz cost), you might want to consider Heidelberg. While considerably more expensive than your consumer desktop scanners, they do offer productivity gains and fairly high dynamic ranges and optical resolution. Heidelberg's Linoscan line is probably where you'd start looking -- although the information can be a bit difficult to tease out of their site. I worked with a Linocolor Topaz about 5 years ago and it was an amazing scanner for the price (approx. $20,000 at the time) -- one nice feature was being able to lay 40 35mm slides on the bed and have the scanner scan and separate them into individual scans.

 

Tim

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Tim Au Yeung
Manager, Digitization Initiatives
Information Resources
University of Calgary
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jessica Lehr [mailto:jessi...@hfmgv.org]
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 8:39 AM
To: mcn-l@mcn.edu
Subject: scanners for oversized materials

Colleagues,

The Research Center at Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village is considering the purchase of a new scanner with the capability to handle larger format materials (we have a number of 8-1/2 x11 flatbed scanners with transparency adapters).  Our biggest concern is the ability to scan oversized negatives and transparencies (at least up to 8x10), a capability we simply do not have at the moment.  However, we would be most interested in having a flexible scanner that can also handle other oversized materials.  If any of you are currently using equipment with these capabilities or researching their purchase I would appreciate any feedback on products.  We have gotten some good information on Microtek products that seem like they would fit many of our needs.  If anyone has specific feedback on that brand it would also be much appreciated.

Thank you!
Jessica Lehr

Jessica Lehr
Historical Resources Digital Manager
Research Center, Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village
P.O Box 1970
Dearborn, MI  48124-4088
Telephone: 313-982-6100 x2271
Fax: 313-982-6222
Email: jessi...@hfmgv.org
Web Site: www.hfmgv.org/collections/default.asp

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