RE: [Repeater-Builder] OT..Kind of..Flat Bed Scanner Opinions Sought
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. 73MikeK5JMPwww.k5jmp.us -Original Message-From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Micheal SalemSent: Monday, March 27, 2006 8:26 PMTo: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.comSubject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] OT..Kind of..Flat Bed Scanner Opinions SoughtRobin: 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. 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 N5MSRobin 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 Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "Repeater-Builder" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [Repeater-Builder] OT..Kind of..Flat Bed Scanner Opinions Sought
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. 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 Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "Repeater-Builder" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
RE: [Repeater-Builder] OT..Kind of..Flat Bed Scanner Opinions Sought
Hi Robin, I have the earlier RCA like the Super Carfone, Super Carfone 500, Super Fleetfone 700 and 1000 and apparently some ML1000 & VeeTac. Also in GE from the pre- Progress Line thru Mastr-pro, Exec, Exec II and Mastr II, manuals in the EBI and LBI sections. In Motorola, I have from about 1946 through FMTR-80D & 140D, Twin-V, Motracs - 25-50, 67-88, 136-174 and 406-470, mostly ditto with most of the Mocom anything, Micor 25 MHz up, Mitrek and MSR2000, MSF5000 and some of the later stuff. If I had the computer smarts you seem to have, the repeater-Builder web site would too. 73 - Neil - WA6KLA Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] OT..Kind of..Flat Bed Scanner Opinions Sought Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:15:51 -0600 >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 > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
