martin@jennifer.verfahrenstechnik.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Martin Hepperle (PACP)) (06/04/91)
Hi, I am planning to purchase a page scanner. To me the EPSON GT-4000 and GT-6000 color scanners are looking interesting. I would like to get any comments on these (or other recommendations). I don't really need the color scanning capabilities, but the EPSON's are fairly priced. Is the difference between 400dpi and 600 dpi worth the difference in price (~$200.-) ? Are these devices good enough to scan color photographs or is the color option just another bell (or whistle) which looks good in advertisments, but is unusable in real life ? Ciao, Martin.
ries@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Marc Ries) (06/05/91)
FYI In today's Business Section, there was an article that said HP has reduced the price of it's Scan Jet Scanner by 50%. Since current street price is not about $1430 including PC interface, that should move the price down closer to $800 or less.
evas@cs.eur.nl (Eelco van Asperen) (06/10/91)
martin@jennifer.verfahrenstechnik.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Martin Hepperle (PACP)) writes: >I am planning to purchase a page scanner. >To me the EPSON GT-4000 and GT-6000 color scanners are >looking interesting. I would like to get any comments >on these (or other recommendations). I don't really >need the color scanning capabilities, but the EPSON's >are fairly priced. Is the difference between 400dpi >and 600 dpi worth the difference in price (~$200.-) ? >Are these devices good enough to scan color photographs >or is the color option just another bell (or whistle) >which looks good in advertisments, but is unusable >in real life ? We have a GT-6000 here and it works fine, including the color mode. Just be aware that the software Epson sells with this scanner sucks, at least the MS-DOS stuff. We bought the optional SCSI interface and have it attached to a Sun SparcStation IPC for which we wrote our own driver and scanning software. The color scanning works really well; the only problem is that you have to find the right parameters for each picture but you have to that for BW / grayscale pictures too. If you want to attach the scanner to a PC, you'll probably have to buy the Epson bi-directional parallel IO card since most PC parallel interfaces are not bi- directional. Forget about the serial interface: it's too slow for any serious use. -- Eelco van Asperen. || Erasmus University Rotterdam uucp: evas@cs.eur.nl || Department of Computer Science, room H5-1 no claims - no disclaimers || PObox 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands