FROM: mje@primus.com.au (Martin Elliget)
SUBJECT: Re: Recommendation for an A3 scanner?
DATE: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 06:58:01 GMT
ORGANIZATION: Kaos
NEWSGROUPS: comp.periphs.scanners,alt.comp.periphs.scanner

On Fri, 06 Oct 00 22:34:40 GMT, w.j.markerink@a1.nl (Willem-Jan
Markerink) wrote:

>In article <8ri1k4$hon2o$4@ID-34205.news.cis.dfn.de>,
>   w.j.markerink@a1.nl (Willem-Jan Markerink) wrote:
>>In article <39da42a5.69702498@news.primus.com.au>,
>>   mje@primus.com.au (Martin Elliget) wrote:
>>>Any recommendations for an A3 scanner that doesn't cost an arm and a
>>>leg? I'm not looking for a high end scanner. Just something that will
>>>handle around 300 dpi or so. Thanks.
>>>
>>>Martin Elliget
>>
>>Mustek and Plustek make one, 300 or 400dpi, US$150'ish, the first even in 
>>SCSI if needed....Mustek also makes a newer model, 600dpi, but the price 
>>curve is steep, US$500'ish.
>
>Didn't have their respective model names handy when I typed this:
>
>Mustek ScanExpress A3, 300x600, 36bit, W95+
>Plustek OpticPro A3, 400x800, 30bit, W3.1/NT/95+
>
>
>--
>Bye,
>
>Willem-Jan Markerink
>
>      The desire to understand
>is sometimes far less intelligent than
>     the inability to understand
>
><w.j.markerink@a1.nl>
>[note: 'a-one' & 'en-el'!]

Thanks a lot, Willem-Jan. I appreciate it. These look much more
affordable than one recommended by a supplier. I forget which brand it
was but not the price - around AUD$10,000!

regards,

Martin
--
Email: mje@primus.com.au
Fig Tree Pocket, QLD, Australia





FROM: w.j.markerink@a1.nl (Willem-Jan Markerink)
SUBJECT: Re: Recommendation for an A3 scanner?
DATE: Sun, 08 Oct 00 19:09:50 GMT
NEWSGROUPS: comp.periphs.scanners,alt.comp.periphs.scanner

In article <39e018ef.10920059@news.primus.com.au>,
   mje@primus.com.au (Martin Elliget) wrote:
>On Fri, 06 Oct 00 22:34:40 GMT, w.j.markerink@a1.nl (Willem-Jan
>Markerink) wrote:
>
>>In article <8ri1k4$hon2o$4@ID-34205.news.cis.dfn.de>,
>>   w.j.markerink@a1.nl (Willem-Jan Markerink) wrote:
>>>In article <39da42a5.69702498@news.primus.com.au>,
>>>   mje@primus.com.au (Martin Elliget) wrote:
>>>>Any recommendations for an A3 scanner that doesn't cost an arm and a
>>>>leg? I'm not looking for a high end scanner. Just something that will
>>>>handle around 300 dpi or so. Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>Martin Elliget
>>>
>>>Mustek and Plustek make one, 300 or 400dpi, US$150'ish, the first even 
in 
>>>SCSI if needed....Mustek also makes a newer model, 600dpi, but the price 
>>>curve is steep, US$500'ish.
>>
>>Didn't have their respective model names handy when I typed this:
>>
>>Mustek ScanExpress A3, 300x600, 36bit, W95+
>>Plustek OpticPro A3, 400x800, 30bit, W3.1/NT/95+
>>
>Thanks a lot, Willem-Jan. I appreciate it. These look much more
>affordable than one recommended by a supplier. I forget which brand it
>was but not the price - around AUD$10,000!

The Mustek can also be had with a transparancy-lid, but I hope you 
understand that it offers neither Dmax nor dpi to scan slides.

For normal scans I am still satisfied with my old b&w HP-scanner....but 
I sometimes want to scan newspaper articles, and those are often too 
large....so for my purpose, even an A3 b&w scanner would have been enough 
(keeps the file-size down too!).

Anyone having an old A3 b&w scanner to offer, for say US$50?....;))
Proprietary card is fine (that's what my HP now has too)....8-))

Heck, perhaps even an A2 scanner, for full-page articles?....:))

--
Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink

      The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand

<w.j.markerink@a1.nl>
[note: 'a-one' & 'en-el'!]