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Today, my dad came home from the store and said I got a scanner He told me I owed him 10 dollars, and I thought he meant something like "I just payed 50 bucks for this thing, and I'm only making you pay for 10 of it becuz I'm nice", but he meant he BOUGHT the whole thing for $10 (after rebates)!!

Yeah, and at first I thought it must have been made of 24 karat crap, but it goes up to about 1200x4800 dpi without the digital enhancement feature so basically this is the coolest thing that's happened to me since... thanksgiving dinner last night!

No seriously, I GOT A SCANNER! W00T! And since I payed all da money, if I want I get to take it to college with me or whatever when I'm older because it's MINE!

*dances around*

Good times!

Congrats!

*-* Lucky. =D

awesome, i got a 52x burner for like $18 today

Yes, that is awesome. Great Deal, thank your dad!

>>awesome, i got a 52x burner for like $18 today
Sweet!

>>Yes, that is awesome. Great Deal, thank your dad!

Yeah I did! He claims to have waited in line for like over an hour to get it, too! (I'll thank him again when we plug it in )

Congratulations!

*starts to cry* ......*sniffle* I WANT A SCANER TOO!!!

thats cool i hope it works good

good on you jedisonic reminds me the days when i too bought stuff really cheap thanks to my dad. too bad he's in Korea for business... can't drive to auctions/shops

its pretty easy to find deals like that these days. and you really don't have to look that hard. anyways i'm glad you're pleased with it

:enjoi:

Really really good deal!!

Hmmm.. now I'm not sure if my element of total ecstacy there was warrented...

This thing seems having major problems picking up my pencil strokes; I scanned my drawing and I get a nearly white image. I tried adjusting the brightness, but you don't get a very good image at all. My dad made a printout of what one of my drawings looked like after it was scanned and darkened, and holding it up to my original drawing I'm not that happy with the results. It's like someone ran and eraser through it a few times.

Well hopefully this is a problem that I will soon learn to correct, but if it's not, well at least it was only 10 dollars..

Well here's a pic from my art gallery that I scanned and darkened. It was drawn with a non-mechanical, #2 pencil. I know you can't compare it with the actual drawing, but trust me a lot of stuff was lost I tried out some of the scanners at Best Buy, and they all gave me really horrible quality copies, even compared with this. It's funny though because my friend had a scanner that was really good at picking up even "light" pencil such as this. And I mean that was an old scanner. Do I just need to use a darker pencil or what?

A darkened scan from my $10 deal:

Oh. Darker pencil. Yeah that actually worked a LOT better with mech pencil.

Too bad I can't use standard-issue pencils, but at least now I know what works so I don't have to whine about it anymore

Thus endeth the saga of the complaining jedisonic.

--Oh, and sorry about the triple post I hope the bumping hasn't ticked off any mods

Hmm.. that pic was at about 200 dpi at 50% contrast. If I increase the contrast I lose more quality... or did you mean lessen the contrast? That doesn't help a lot either..

any idea what model the scanner is?

i predict it's the brightness, contrast doesn't seem to do anything.

Well as i said that was a darkened pic. The scanner is a Visioneer OneTouch 7100.

Here's what the pic looks like at the default scan settings. (The dark marks were made with a mechanical pencil as a test to see if they show up better.) If you copy this image and decrease the brightness it should look a lot like the one I posted before. I think the whole problem is that the brightness is applied AFTER the image is scanned, so it's the same quality no matter what I do

what program are you using to scan stuff?

The stuff that came with the scanner.. It's called "scan manager pro".

looks like a pencil problem. if it's a very light pencil, then it often won't pick it up. sometimes when you do exams it asks you to use really darker pencils, or if you don't, kinda like paint the circles until it almost smudges. probably high clay content will make the drawing 'shiny', and actually reflect light as if it was normal white paper.

so yeah, my theory.

hmmm...maybe try to get another scanning program (warning could be expensive)

or maybe u should download a new driver.......