Scanner Recommendations Please?

[golfnut]

Would like to purchase a high resolution, high quality scanner for scanning CD/DVD inserts and covers. Recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Must be compatible with Windows XP. Thank you for your help and reply.

[Craig Tucker]

I have always been quite impressed with the Umax range of scanners.

[The village idiot]

If it is just for scanning disks and covers, any run of the mill scanner will do. If you scan them at high resolution, you will get bad looking images because the printing is not continuous. The printing used is set to have the different colors spaced between each other, and is normally very low resolution like 100 line per inch. Any scanner can do that. So just get a "name brand" scanner in the $50 range. Or if you really want, you can get a really expensive one in the $400 range, but it will look the same when you are done.

If you want to pay for a scanner that has some features, find one that will do de-screening on the scans, so that you won't have the prolem with scanning printed "objects" likes books, and cover, and disks.

[galactica]

Ive got a canon LIDE 30 which is really nice. it was 99$ when i got it 79 now and does everything i ask it to do.

there is also a newer one LIDE 50 just looks a bit better on the specs.

hope this helps some.

[rallynavvie]

We use Epson 1670s at work and they seem to do well enough. Most of the things we scan get blown up to over 400% their original size and do pretty well at 600dpi.

[golfnut]

My sincere thanks to all those who replied and helped me. Thank you.