| Below
are some simple tips on scanning good quality digital
images or documents |
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Set
the proper color mode of your scanner: |
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Set
the color mode of your scanner to 16-bit color to
get good quality scanned image. If you want your
scanned image to be of even better quality, go for
the 24-bit or 32-bit option |
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If you are scanning a document to be printed
later then… |
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Scan your document at 300 dpi or higher, but remember
that an image scanned at dpi greater than 300 dpi
can take up a lot of disk space. |
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Do
not save the scanned image in a lossy compression
format like .jpeg or .jpg |
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If
you are scanning an image for your web site…
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Scan your image at 75-100 dpi, this can give you
good quality, small file size images for the web.
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Save
the image file in .gif or .jpg format as this is
the image format supported by all internet browsers.
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Some
simple things to do… |
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Clean the scanner glass periodically with a glass
cleaner. |
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Scan
only the part of the image you want to scan, crop
the unnecessary part using the scanner software's
built in feature, this will save your time as well
as disk space. |
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Delete
all the temporary files that the scanner creates.
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Use
the gray scale or line art option to scan black
and white images. |
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Use
a good quality printer page to print a scanned image.
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Do
not save the image in a lossy compression file format
if you want the image for further editing. |
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