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Oh for Pete's sake...
16 years ago
(cross-posted from my DA)
Like most people, I only have an 8 1/2 by 11 inch size scanner. Unfortunately, mine's got elevated ridges as well, so I can't even scan piece by piece very well because of the resulting annoying shadow. So I figured that since my scanner isn't suitable that I might as well look into getting a bigger one.
Except I can't hardly find anything near what I want for lower than 3000 bucks. What the hell. I don't want any of those bajillion-page jobs or ridiculous DPIs, I just want a functional scanner I can fit things on. Something like this http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/ca/e.....2-1849437.html , but bigger y'know?
Like, look at these screwy prices: http://www.superwarehouse.com/Epson.....L-GA/p/421281# http://www.wholesalescanners.com/Co.....x_FLEX50i.html The best price I could find was on EPSON's GT-2000 - $1800 Canadian.
The Contex one looks flippin' sweet, but holy pants it's trying to cost almost 7 times more than my COMPUTER with that reduced price on that link. WHY. My silly scanner that's part of my all-in-one has quality enough for me, it's just the SIZE that's not right (and the ridges), and that only cost me 50 bucks. :I I don't care about "color feature extraction" or "error diffusion halftoning" or "adaptive thresholding." DO THOSE PHRASES EVEN MEAN ANYTHING AT ALL.
Fffffffffff.
Anyway, do any of you guys have any idea if such a thing as I desire exists, and if so where? Just a flatbed scanner, size maybe around 11x17 inches. Preferably not a thousand dollars. :|
Like most people, I only have an 8 1/2 by 11 inch size scanner. Unfortunately, mine's got elevated ridges as well, so I can't even scan piece by piece very well because of the resulting annoying shadow. So I figured that since my scanner isn't suitable that I might as well look into getting a bigger one.
Except I can't hardly find anything near what I want for lower than 3000 bucks. What the hell. I don't want any of those bajillion-page jobs or ridiculous DPIs, I just want a functional scanner I can fit things on. Something like this http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/ca/e.....2-1849437.html , but bigger y'know?
Like, look at these screwy prices: http://www.superwarehouse.com/Epson.....L-GA/p/421281# http://www.wholesalescanners.com/Co.....x_FLEX50i.html The best price I could find was on EPSON's GT-2000 - $1800 Canadian.
The Contex one looks flippin' sweet, but holy pants it's trying to cost almost 7 times more than my COMPUTER with that reduced price on that link. WHY. My silly scanner that's part of my all-in-one has quality enough for me, it's just the SIZE that's not right (and the ridges), and that only cost me 50 bucks. :I I don't care about "color feature extraction" or "error diffusion halftoning" or "adaptive thresholding." DO THOSE PHRASES EVEN MEAN ANYTHING AT ALL.
Fffffffffff.
Anyway, do any of you guys have any idea if such a thing as I desire exists, and if so where? Just a flatbed scanner, size maybe around 11x17 inches. Preferably not a thousand dollars. :|
