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Take
them to Kinko's... they have Canon "Image-Runners" iR330... you can
define a custom page size, and the are fast! Up to 1200dpi. It will
cost a few bucks, but it is worth it. Forget trying to stitch the images
back together... "Xerox stretch" is almost impossible to correct. We
used to have a Canon... but Capitol Copiers got stupid on the
lease.
73
Mike
K5JMP
www.k5jmp.us
Robin:
Scanners that do larger than letter or legal are not
going to be both inexpensive and fast.
I have an HP3c
(legal), HP4c (legal), HP6350 (letter), and a Fujitsu 4120c (sheet fed), and a
Fujitsu 4220c (sheet fed with a letter size flat bed) not to mention a variety
of Visioneer Strobe Pro scanners.
The Fujitsu's are fast (20 ppm at 300
dpi) and will do double sided pages. The HP's are slow (about 2
ppm at 300 dpi and mine have the HP ADF's (I may have an extra HP ADF if
somebody needs one).
The problem is that scanning long pages and
piecing them together in Paperport or some other program is very difficult and
tedious.
I started looking for a larger scanner to do tabloid
size (11 x 17). The only reasonably priced scanner that I found was a
Mustek A3 USB. They go for about $170.00 plus shipping on
e-bay. It will do 300 dpi and can also do 600 x 300 (I think).
It is slow (maybe 25 seconds or more, I have not timed it), but does a
good job. It will interface with Paperport and other programs. It
comes with a scan monitor that comes up when you select scan. It is
simple to install. I have used it to copy manuals. Some of the
Motorola manuals with pages larger than tabloid are not always all one
diagram, but instead are pieces and I scan those into tabloid size
pieces. Sometimes the schematics just have to be scanned in two pieces
and I don't put them back together.
I can print tabloid black and
white because I have an HP5000 laser printer. It is a 1200 dpi tabloid
printer with full duplexer and can print on both sides of the page.
I even used the Mustek to scan some x-rays and I opened the top and
put a small diffuse light about 2 feet above it. The X-Rays came through
pretty good. (I also have a Nu-Arc light table, but it is too heavy to
turn upside down and put it on the scanner.
There are three on
e-bay right now.
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If somebody has another suggestion, I would be interested, but the
Mustek is fairly simple, just slow, but not as slow as scanning in two pieces
and putting them together.
Micheal Salem
N5MS
Robin Midgett wrote:
Hi,
I have a significant collection of service manuals for various
commercial two-way radios which I'd like to scan into Adobe Acrobat
and make available via the Repeater Builder web site. The makes and
models include RCA 500, 700 & 1000 VHF & UHF, and G.E. models from
MASTR Exec through MASTRIII, Phoenix, MVS, and others.
I'd like recommendations on flat bed scanners suitable for scanning
these documents. I have two now that use the USB interface, but
they're slow, and they only accommodate 8-1/2" x 11" paper. A
relatively fast scanner with a larger surface (for those fold out
sheets) would be nice. I suspect someone on the list knows of such a
machine that they'd recommend.
P.S. Purely as a preemptive measure, please don't ping me for a list
of the manuals I have available just yet. I haven't gotten that far
into organizing them. Rest assured I'll be offering them to the ham
community later this year.
Flat bed scanner recommendations, anyone?
Thanks,
Robin Midgett K4IDC
http://www.people.vanderbilt.edu/~robin.midgett/index.htm
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