To Richard and Bob, Many thanks for all your valuable advice. (also to Rod Wynn Powell who rang me)
I'm going to try out an ICG on Monday and compare same scans with flextight. I'm sure the result will be as everyone expects. At the moment it looks like we will stick with a new 848. (even though its actually going to be MORE expensive than the ICG). Ease of use and no new training, the ability to quickly get a scan in and onto screen has been vital to us over the past few years. We do have a nice sized spare room for a drum, but I think it will make a better retouching suite. Most of our clients would rather sacrifice a little bit of quality (that may never be noticeable), in favour of speed. God! - we are always having to change scanning priorities, and slipping in extra scans at 5:55pm on a Friday night. I could see this being a huge headache on drums. Anyway, thanks again all.. Graeme -------------------------------------------------------- Touch Digital Limited http://www.touchdigital.co.uk t. 020 7684 7500 f. 020 7684 7499 Sent: 07 August 2003 12:12 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PRODIG] ICG drum scanners In message Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Bob Croxford writes >Using the ICG in clean conditions you should save lots of time cloning >out the dust. However as I mentioned before the ICG is a high >throughput machine and really comes into its own when scanning 100+ >films a day. > >The quality difference is noticeable especially on punchy film like >Velvia. Whether it is THAT noticeable depends on your standards. Dear Graeme Bob has made some good points. Whilst I have not used the ICG machines, I suspect that the real speed of throughput will be rather dependent on using their special customised easy load drum. Am I am right in saying these are made for one particular film size...35mm? For other sizes or a mixture you are into the normal drum scanner mounting techniques. Will you notice the difference on poor quality repro. in editorial magazine pictures? In all honesty I very much doubt it!! Cheers Richard =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
