Without spending an arm and leg for a scanner.
I went and got the hp PSC 1315v psc=printer, scanner, copier] all in one.
It does all three, and the only gripe so far was some banding [someone called
Moire] on some magazine scans.

Without a magnifying glass, it's not real noticeable. But it is there.

I'm thinking I have a bargain scanner, and the default settings may be the best
I can hope for.

Couple things I did change on an image below
Output type: Millions of Colors
Output dimensions: 1358 x 1975 pixels
File Size: 7.86MB
Resolution: 200dpi
Scale: 100%

was the
sharpening from medium to none
resolution from 200 all the way to 1200
with and without de screen.

And the 1200 res came up to 1.2 gigs after scanning.
From the smallest 200 res no sharpen, no de screen to the 1200 res sharpen
medium, de screen there wasn't really that much visible difference to waste the
time scanning above the defaults.

Is there anything else I might be able to try to get these scans to look more
like the originals in the magazines.


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