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Re: how to change scanning res? was: Re: [OM] ADITL HELP!

Subject: Re: how to change scanning res? was: Re: [OM] ADITL HELP!
From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 22:00:15 -0600
At 05:41 PM 24/06/99 -0700, you wrote:
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Acer Victoria <siddim01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Thursday, June 24, 1999 5:24 PM
>Subject: how to change scanning res? was: Re: [OM] ADITL HELP!
>
>
>>OT
>>How can I change the scanning resolution? Since I don't have my own yet, I
>>have to go to the computer lab; the HP5100 there is set to 150dpi, and I
>>can't seem to change that. Help?
>>
>>/Acer Victoria
>
>With the scanning window active, go to the settings / page settings menu
>option and enter whatever dpi you care for. I have found that I get a better
>final image by having scanned at 300 or 600 dpi on my HP5100C and then using
>image editing software to reduce the resolution to 72 dpi than by scanning
>at 72 dpi at the outset.


I'll second that.  Think of scanning at a much higher DPI as obtaining more 
information, which can then be reduced in an "average" fashion ("muting" noise 
in the original scan, too).  And don't be afraid to play around -- the first 
scan is rarely the optimal one.  One caveat: don't scan any higher than the 
highest *mechanical* resolution, or the software in the scanner will simply 
perform interpolations, defeating much (though not all) of the value of the 
higher-DPI scan.

Garth

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