What scanner do you use?
Bunker
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I know this has been discussed before, but I wasn't able to locate the old thread.
At one time a lot of guys were switching over to the Epson V300 (Including me) I am looking to replace my V300 and wanted to know what works well and what does not work well, especially concerning the scanning of graded cards.
My V300 still does a nice job, but it seems to be getting slower or maybe I am just moving faster
Thank you for your assistance
Rick
At one time a lot of guys were switching over to the Epson V300 (Including me) I am looking to replace my V300 and wanted to know what works well and what does not work well, especially concerning the scanning of graded cards.
My V300 still does a nice job, but it seems to be getting slower or maybe I am just moving faster
Thank you for your assistance
Rick
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Still use a HP 3500c that I have had for 13 years at least.
Still works great, I have scanned thousands and thousands of things.
works great except but does not scan the shiny stuff well at all.
I have tried various settings but to no success.
1948-76 Topps FB Sets
FB & BB HOF Player sets
1948-1993 NY Yankee Team Sets
Shiny and BGS:
Not so shiny and PSA:
And SGC:
bobsbbcards SGC Registry Sets
bobsbbcards SGC Registry Sets
Here is a scan with my old model:
Now here's a scan with the new model:
Totally inferior IMHO. Whites are ridiculously bright, the print on the flip looks like crap. In short, it looks nothing like the actual card does in hand. Super disappointed. I guess I'll have to buy a dedicated scanner now. Anyone know if the Epson Perfection V600 is compatible with El Capitan??
Old
New
Dmax rating is high enough for scans to be used in the SMR.
Dodgers collection scans | Brett Butler registry | 1978 Dodgers - straight 9s, homie
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
Great information so far. Thanks for sharing your scanner choices. I was wondering, are any of the scanners recommended above able to scan multiple cards. For instance if I were to lay four cards on the flat bed. Can I get individual scans of the four cards in one pass? This would save a ton of time when scanning cards, especially sets. Thanks for any insight.
If you scan four cards at once, it's takes about one minute just using Microsoft Paint to select and crop and save individual cards from the one photo. But I don't know if there' s a way to have that happen automagically.
Great information so far. Thanks for sharing your scanner choices. I was wondering, are any of the scanners recommended above able to scan multiple cards. For instance if I were to lay four cards on the flat bed. Can I get individual scans of the four cards in one pass? This would save a ton of time when scanning cards, especially sets. Thanks for any insight.
Here's what I've tried and what my results have been:
- I don't think any scanners automatically do it for sports card size
- There are many PC apps for photo post processing:
AutoSplitter - recommends a 1" gap between photos (slabs) and attempts to automatically detect where to crop and adjusts for tilt as well. Mixed results, sometimes it correctly guesses the entire slab, but most of the time just the card inside. The free trial watermarks each of the split images, $19 I think for the full version.
Photoshop/GIMP - I don't have or use either, but there are instructions here on how to with each: Link
Photoscape - Freeware.
Method 1: If you're not concerned about a tight crop exactly around the slab (say for eBay listings), I've found this method works pretty well. Just place the 4 slabs in quadrants when scanning and then set the Splitter in Photoscape for Col,Row at 2x2 and it splits the image into 4 separate files. You can also batch a bunch of images to be split at once.
Method 2: If you want a tight crop around each slab, place all 4 slabs touching on the scanner. Manually crop once around the 4 slab group and then follow the same Splitter steps as Method 1.
I looked at a couple others, but haven't tried these yet: BatchCrop ($49 for full version) & ScanSpeeder (sounded similar to AutoSplitter, but might scan and split all in one step)