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Originally Posted by HorridRedDog
I have had 2 flat bed scanners over the years. I never used them much after I accomplished the initial objectives.
One of the problems I found in scanning pages from books was bleed through from the other side.
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I don't remember how many scanners I've had. The first I bought while in college with money from a summer job-- cost $400, had an optical resolution of 300 DPI, needed a SCSI card, and took 3 passes (R, G, and B) to make a scan! A couple of scanners later, I had one with 1600dpi optical that I scratched all to hell scanning fossils and meteorites on it and it eventually died anyway. I destroyed the scanner that replaced that (one of those 30 buck printer/copier/scanner combo pieces of crap) by attempting to cut off the front bezel of the case to make it into an edge scanner...
As for the bleed through, the scanner I mentioned has a black top plate which helps minimize bleed through-- but years back I would use a sheet of black construction paper. Still doesn't fix everything with thin/low quality paper, but it helps.+
Edited to add: I had one "scanner" before the one I mentioned-- on my Commodore Amiga, I had this monster kludge (that was a commercial product, not something I threw together) that consisted of a b/w security camera (tube based, not CCD) mounted a foot or two over a platform with circular florescent lights mounted to arms on both sides of the platform. The camera had a wheel with red, green, blue, and clear color filters mounted below it. You would put whatever under the camera to "scan", then scanned 3 times, turning the color wheel each time. All for a 320x240 image-- which could be printed up with my color 9-pin dot-matrix printer!