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From: evas@cs.eur.nl (Eelco van Asperen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Page Scanners
Keywords: Scanner, EPSON
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.091125.6588@cs.eur.nl>
Date: 10 Jun 91 09:11:25 GMT
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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.
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