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From: hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga+Sharp JX100 Scanner Experience (transparencies?)
Message-ID: <2170@crash.cts.com>
Date: 11 Apr 90 01:30:12 GMT
References: <4651@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu> <2097@crash.cts.com> <5649@lmrc.uucp>
Reply-To: hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser)
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA
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In article <5649@lmrc.uucp> hassinger@lmrc.uucp (Bob Hassinger) writes:
>A related question on the JX-100.  What can it do with transparencies?  In
>particular, normal 35mm slides?
>
>Does the JX-100 technology allow scanning transparencies?

Nope, not at all. It wasn't designed to. Unlike some other brand scanners
and some of Sharp's own larger models, the scanhead on the JX100 
doesn't face "up" and there's no cover, so there's no flatbed on which
to lay a transparency under a cover.

Per a copy of Sharp's product and retail price list dated 1/1/90 which
I have here, you'd have to go to a JX-450 scanner @ $6995.00 retail
plus a CX500T1 Transparency Unit for JX-450 (only) @ $500.00 retail 
to have this capability.

This is not to say that sometime within the near future Sharp may not come
out with some other small personal color scanner similar to, or a revised
version of the JX-100 with increased capabilities.  A Sharp rep I spoke
to at the recent NCGA in Anaheim hinted at this but would offer no other
specs or details.

Y'know, you might be able to kludge a way to get the JX-100 to scan
a negative or slide by turning the scanner upside down, putting the
negative on the "glass" and then covering with an opaque white piece of
plastic or thick paper... (you wouldn't want to chance damaging your
eyes when that extremely bright light in the scan head kicks in) but
I haven't tried this.