On 9/18/06, Ben Francom wrote: > > The downside is that they have a very narrow depth of field and any curved > > object, say an open book won't scan well. Basically these scanners will > > only > > work with very flat copy. CCD scanners work better with 3D > > opjects. Try > > your watch or a leaf sometime. > > > Good to know. Thanks Carl. I haven't scanned anything but 1 page (B/W) > lineart. I'll have to test a couple things with more depth and post the > pics. > -Ben > > I meant, thanks Dennis...and here are those pics Blackberry http://bfrancom.googlepages.com/bbscan.jpg Pen http://bfrancom.googlepages.com/penscan.jpg Picture http://bfrancom.googlepages.com/penscan.jpg I wasn't satisfied with the picture scan as that the color depth wasn't great, and there were some lines. I just used default settings on the scanner @ 300dpi. Google's site creator doohickey reformatted my pics from png's to jpg's, so there may have been a slight loss there too. Don't know exactly what you need Carl, but hopefully this'll aid in your decision.