A few other links related to scanning and scanners
If entering from elsewhere, be sure to see the main scantips.com site too.
Shopping for a scanner? |
| A few brands put some of their User Manuals online in their Support/Documentation section (Bravo!) This can be a big help for shoppers, to "see" the software tools provided. The scanner software is how you will perceive and use the scanner. Scanner manuals won't teach scanning (any more than automobile manuals teach driving), but they do show the controls that are available, and what they do. |
Index to Subject Areas below |
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Flatbed Scanners
For A3 and large scanners, see the Specialty section below.
Agfa scanners, Duoscan, Scanwise, Snapscan, but Agfa is no longer in the scanner business.
www.agfa.com
Artec scanners - Ultima Electronics Corp.
www.artecusa.com
www.artec.com.tw
Avision scanners
www.avision.com
www.avision.com.tw
BenQ Scanners - MiraScan (previous name was Acer Peripherals)
www.benq.us/Products/Scanner
Canon scanners - Canoscan
www.canon.com
consumer.usa.canon.com
Epson desktop scanners
www.epson.com
Genius scanners
www.genius-kye.com
www.geniusnet.com.tw
Heidelberg - high end scanners
www.heidelberg.com
Hewlett Packard desktop scanners, PrecisionScan, DeskScan
www.hp.com
Kodak
Kodak
Microtek scanners - ScanWizard
www.microtekusa.com - No longer sells scanners in USA
www.support.microtek.com - Support
www.microtek.com - Taiwan
Mustek desktop scanners
www.mustek.com
Nikon
www.nikon.com
www.nikonusa.com
Pacific Image ScanAce scanners
www.scanace.com
Plustek OpticPro scanners
www.plustek.com
www.plustek.de Latest
drivers here.
Polaroid scanners - no longer sells scanners
www.polaroid.com
Primax - Primascan
www.primax.com.tw
Relisys scanners - Avec
www.tecoimage.com.tw - Try here for scanner drivers (parent)
Trust scanners
www.trust.com
Umax scanners - VistaScan, MagiScan
www.umax.com
Visioneer OneTouch
www.visioneer.com
Reviews - Flatbeds
Scansoft - Buying Guide for Desktop Scanners
www.nuance.com/scannerguide
Film Scanners
BenQ - ScanWit (previous name was Acer Peripherals)
www.benq.us/Products/Scanner
Canon - CanoScan
www.canonusa.com
www.canon-europa.com
Fuji Image Scanner AS-1 APS film scanner
home.fujifilm.com/info/products/digital/scanner
Imacon High-end scanners
www.imacon.dk
Kodak film scanners
RFS
3600
Konica RX-II
www.konicaminolta.com
www.konicaminolta.us
Microtek - Artixscan
www.microtekusa.com
www.microtek.com
Minolta film scanners - Dimage
konicaminolta.com/products/consumer/digital_camera/dimage Japan (English)
www.minoltausa.com
www.minoltaeurope.com
Nikon - Coolscan
www.nikonusa.com - USA
http://www.europe-nikon.com/ - Europe
- Japan
Pacific Image - PrimeFilm 1800
www.scanace.com
Polaroid scanners - SprintScan
www.polaroid.com
Reviews - Film Scanners
Imaging Resource
www.imaging-resource.com/SCAN1.HTM
- Relatively many reviews
www.photo-forums.com
- User discussions
Steve's Digicams
www.steves-digicams.com/scanners.html
- Film scanner reviews at bottom.
Steve Hoffmann's Reviews, Tech Tips, Tutorials
www.sphoto.com/techinfo
Pete Andrews
www.photoscientia.co.uk
- Acer ScanWit 2720S User Review
Popular Photography magazine, July 2001
7 Top Film Scanners Tested
MacWorld reviews, Oct 2001
7
Film Scanners Tested
User reviews
www.photographyreview.com
www.computingreview.com
Vuescan - Third party scanning software for most film scanners, some flatbeds.
www.hamrick.com
Don Maxwell's methods to scan slides on a flatbed, without proper TMA.
www.abstractconcreteworks.com/essays/scanning/Backlighter.html
Roger N. Clark's "How much detail can you scan?" and "Film vs. Digital"
www.clarkvision.com
Speciality, High Speed, or Large Scanners
A3 size photo and sheet film scanners, $1000+, approx. 12x17 inches (typically 11x15 inches for film)
Epson Microtek and Umax make these, with model names usually ending in "XL".
Mustek and Plustek make some very inexpensive A3 models.
Large scanners: Wide Format (like 24 to 54 inches)
CalComp
www.calcomp.com
Contex
www.contex.com
Cruse
www.crusedigital.com
Ideal
www.ideal.com
Vidar
www.vidar.com
Xerox
www.xerox.com
High Speed scanners
Bell & Howell
www.bhscanners.com
Fuji Film
www.fujifilm.com
Fujitsu
www.fujitsu.com
Kodak
www.kodak.com/cgi-bin/webProductTypes.pl?type=Scanners
Panasonic scanners
panasonic.com/business/office/cat_scanners.asp
Ricoh scanners
www.ricoh-usa.com
Sharp
www.sharp-usa.com
Visionshape
www.visionshape.com
Xerox
www.xerox.com
Miscellaneous
Wizcom Pen scanner
www.wizcomtech.com
Alpha Innotech scientific scanners
www.alphainnotech.com
Scantron - Survey and form scanning
www.scantron.com
I.R.I.S. Pen scanner
www.irislink.com
Business card scanners
www.cardscan.com
Film Recorders
www.lasergraphics.com
www.polaroid.com
Microfilm - Microfiche scanners
www.agfa.com
www.anacomp.com
www.mekel.com
3D Scanners
www.microscribe.com
www.3dscanners.com
General Information
Identify old Kodak film types
Kodak
Historic Photo Archive
Scanning Calculator / Printing Resolution Calculator
from scantips.com
File Format FAQ
www.faqs.org/faqs/jpeg-faq - JPG
www.w3.org/Graphics/JPEG/jfif3.pdf - Specs 1.02
www.exif.org/specifications.html
partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/tiff/TIFF6.pdf - Specs TIFF 6
www.cdrom/pub/png
- PNG
www.faqs.org/faqs/graphics/fileformats-faq
- General FAQ
www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/
- Compression
www.wavelet.org - Wavelets
www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~uhl/wav.html
- Wavelet links
www.jpeg.org/JPEG2000.htm
- JPEG2000 based on wavelets.
Adobe
Developer Technical Notes - Specs for PostScript, PDF, TIFF, ATM, you name it.
PowerPoint presentations
www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq PowerPoint FAQ
Video Monitor Gamma
www.cgsd.com/papers/gamma.html
- CGSD - Gamma Correction Home Page
www.poynton.com/Poynton-color.html - Charles Poynton's Gamma FAQ and Color FAQ
www.w3.org/TR/PNG-GammaAppendix.html - w3.org Gamma Tutorial
www.photoscientia.co.uk/Gamma.htm
- Monitor calibration
radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/refer/Notes/gamma.html
- Monitor Gamma Correction
Papers about archiving digital images for museums
www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/content/still_preferences.shtml
Library of Congress
memory.loc.gov/ammem/pictel
Library of Congress
sunsite.berkeley.edu/Imaging
Berkeley Digital Library SunSite
www.nmnh.si.edu/cris/techrpts/imagopts
Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History
Care of photographic materials
www.loc.gov/preserv/care/photo.html
Library of Congress
www.collectioncare.org/cci/ccicph.html
NSCC
www.kodak.com
Kodak
www.photodon.com/phcare01.htm
PhotoDon
Kodak Photo CD
Whatever
happened to Photo CD Brian Lawler
ftp://ftp.Kodak.com/pub/photo-cd/prepress/dci346.pdf Kodak "Optimizing Photo CD Scans for
Prepress and Publishing" by Brian Lawler
More Brian Lawler
essays
Ted's Unofficial Kodak CD Page
Kodak Q-60 IT8 Color calibration targets
Q-60 Information sheet
International paper sizes
www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html
Hanes T-shirt transfer tips
http://hanes2u.com
Keith Cooper's using film scanner as a microscope
www.northlight-images.co.uk/microscope.html
Copyright
Your work is protected under copyright law as soon as you create it - text, images, music, etc. However, formal registration is necessary to support court action to resolve copyright violations, with financial recovery of actual damages, statutory damages and attorneys fees. Recommended. Copyright is very inexpensive, and there is one simple form. Honored in 100 countries via the 1989 Bern Convention. See Library of Congress link for all details.
The USA Copyright Office - Library of Congress
www.copyright.gov (see the FAQ there)
Copyright FAQ
www.aimnet.com/~carroll/copyright/faq-home.html
10 Big Myths about copyright explained
www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
Cornell Legal Law Institute - law about copyright
www.law.cornell.edu:80/topics/copyright.html
Copyright Society of the USA - Duke University School of Law
www.law.duke.edu/copyright
www.copyrightkids.org
See their copyright site for kids
