Message-Id: <199906081825.LAA31388@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 13:23:39 -0400 From: "Bruce H. Bruemmer" <mailto:bruemmer@TC.UMN.EDU> Subject: Re: Minolta PS7000 To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Thanks to all for the excellent information. In response to Emil Levine, whoou wrote: >There are a lot of scanners that can reach 600 dpi and most display software
>will give you the results of the scanning.
>A better question is throughput, size of documents, types of documents,
>double or single sided or mixed. And why do you need 600 dpi unless you are
>doing preservation. Does your material require that resolution?
Well, sometimes. The real point with Minolta is that they produce a spine down scanner that would be a real boon to preservation scanning for those volumes that, because of curatorial preference, cannot be disbound. The PS3000 was really not up to anyone's archival specifications, and had a funky interface (as another IMAGELIBer indicated). The 6000 appears to have a TWAIN interface in their literature with the same software as the 3000 for page curvature and gutter shadows. I'm not aware of a huge number of spine down scanners that can produce 600dpi bitonal, but it wouldn't be the first time that my ignorance was without bounds.
I notice in the literature I just receive that Minolta will be at NAGARA and SAA in North America.
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