Message-Id: <199906081857.LAA17706@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 14:54:23 -0400 From: Eileen Mathias <mailto:mathias@SAY.ACNATSCI.ORG> Subject: Re: Minolta PS7000 To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
We recently purchased the Minolta PS7000 and have been using it for about a month now. For our purposes, it has worked well. We have many rare and fragile books, and purchased the Minolta because our books receive a lot of use, and people are constantly asking for photocopies. Up til now, we would use a book copier or not make copies at all. The Minolta allows us to respond to copy requests and protect the books as well. The curvature software works well, and fingers can be masked out if desired. We have used the Minolta principally for printing, so pages go straight to the printer. Although we have a computer connected to the Minolta, we have not had much call for its use. Images are black and white, not color, which for us limits its use for digital imaging except for text. We have created some pdf files for practise, a process which is not too difficult to learn. As I said, we have not had much reason to use that feature so far, but expect to in the future.The Minolta has two basic settings, one for books and one for single sheets. Occasionally, the Minolta is not able to read the height of the binding of a book. The sheet setting allows you to set the height manually. The Minolta has a metal piece off which the book reflects its height and size to the camera. This metal piece was visibly marred on ours, which may have caused some of the problems of reading the height of the book. That piece is actually being changed today, and hopefully any problems we have had will be resolved.
Eileen Mathias Academy of Natural Sciences
At 09:22 AM 6/8/99 -0600, you wrote: >I've been looking at the Minolta PS 7000 as well for our needs -- one of the
>reasons we were looking at it over a digital camera in a planetary stand was
>the autocorrection for page curvature and other automated image
>enhancements. Has anyone actually used this scanner and give feedback as to
>how good it actually is?
>
>
>Tim Au Yeung
>Manager of Digitization Initiatives
>University of Calgary Press
>voice: (403) 220-8975
>email: ytau (at) ucalgary.ca
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Emil Levine <mailto:E.Levine@IAEA.ORG>
>To: <mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>
>Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 1:14 AM
>Subject: Re: Minolta PS7000
>
>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>> Emil Levine
>> Head, INIS Clearinghouse
>> IAEA/INIS
>> PO Box 100
>> Vienna Austria A1400
>> 43-1-2600-22880/29882 fax
>> mailto:e.levine@iaea.org
>>
>>
>> > ----------
>> > From: Bruce H. Bruemmer[SMTP:mailto:bruemmer@TC.UMN.EDU]
>> > Sent: Monday, 07 June 1999 21:43
>> > To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
>> > Subject: Minolta PS7000
>> >
>> > Recently received some literature from Minolta on a new scanner, the
>> > PS7000, which purports to reach the 600dpi (I'm assuming bitonal, but it
>> > is
>> > hard to tell from the literature). Anyone actually seen this thing?
>And
>> > can we assume the third-party board to enhance the PS3000 (which was
>> > always
>> > just around the corner) will forever be vaporware?
>> >
>> >
>> > Bruce H. Bruemmer, Coordinator
>> > Digital Collections
>> > University of Minnesota Libraries
>> > 499 Wilson Library
>> > Minneapolis, MN 55455
>> >
>> > 612 624-2033 612 626-9353 (fax)
>> > mailto:bruemmer@tc.umn.edu
>> > mailto:Bytelib@tc.umn.edu http://digital.lib.umn.edu
>> >
>>
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