Guest guest Report post Posted September 27, 1995 People are writing whole books with answers to your questions. In other words, your questions cannot be answered with a few sentences. It all depends on what your original is, on what flatbed scanner you have, on how good your printer is, and on how high expectations you have in regards of quality. There are a couple of flatbed scanners which work well enough, provided you have a 'good' reflective original. And there are many flatbed scanners you would not use for scanning in a picture for a book cover. If your original is a transparency, forget all flatbed scanners except the Scitex Smartscan. How can you check the quality? Scan and fix it up in Photoshop or a similar program and output to a digital proofing system such as IRIS or RAINBOW, or have a repro studio produce films and a CROMALIN or MATCHPRINT proof print. How many images are you planning to scan? If it's just a few, just give them to a repro studio and have them scanned on their drum scanners. Saves you a lot of time and costs. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
