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.
Some of these sites offering their User Guide manuals are:
Agfa,
Avision,
BenQ,
Canon,
Epson,
Microtek,
Minolta,
Mustek,
Nikon,
Polaroid,
Umax
Visioneer.
These scanner manufacturer's sites (support section) are where you would download scanner driver updates. |
Index to Subject Areas below |
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Flatbed Scanners
For A3 and large scanners, see the Specialty section below.
Acer Scanners - see BenQ below.
Adara Imagestar scanners - See Microtek.
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
Compeye Simplex desktop scanners
www.compeye.com - (defunct now)
Delrina WinFax scanner (Symantec now)
www.symantec.com/techsupp/winfaxscanner
Dexxa scanners - sold scanner business to Storm, Storm went of out business.
www.dexxaweb.com - defunct now.
Digital Research Technologies scanners - ScanOffix
www.dr-tech.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.scanjet.hp.com
IBM
Try
www.scanner-drivers.com/companies/475.htm
Info Peripherals - ImageReader Scanners - Out of business 1998
Try stimpco.com/info
www.scanner-drivers.com/companies/485.htm
WinDrivers.com
Kodak
www.kodak.com/cgi-bin/webProductTypes.pl?type=Scanners
Logitech (no longer in the scanner business)
www.logitech.com
Or try here
www.scanner-drivers.com/companies/605.htm
Maginnovision (no scanners now)
www.maginnovision.com
Memorex scanners
www.memorex.com
Microtek scanners - ScanWizard
www.microtekusa.com - USA
www.store.microtek.com - Store
www.support.microtek.com - Support
www.microtekeurope.com - Europe
www.microtek.com.sg - Asia Pacific
www.microtek.com - Taiwan
Mustek desktop scanners
www.mustek.com
Nikon
www.nikon.com
www.nikonusa.com
OliVision scanners - a portable PCMCIA TravelScan
www.olivision.com
Optrox PhotoMaker scanners - Out of business 1999
Try www.scanner-drivers.com/companies/769.htm
Pacific Image ScanAce scanners
www.scanace.com
Plustek OpticPro scanners
www.plustek.com
www.plustek.de Latest
drivers here.
Polaroid scanners
www.polaroid.com
Primax - Primascan - Colorado scanners
www.primax.nl
Relisys scanners - Avec
www.relisys.com
www.tecoimage.com.tw - Try here for scanner drivers (parent)
Scanport
www.scanport.com
Scanview
www.scanview.com
Scitex - high end scanners
www.scitex.com
Spot Technology - ScanTak, PhotoTak - Out of business 1999. Try sites
like these
www.scanner-drivers.com/companies/984.htm
WinDrivers.com
I am also told the Mag scanner drivers work, see
www.maginnovision.com
StormTech EasyPhoto - Out of business 1998 Try sites like these:
www.techadvice.com/support/stormtech/storm-tech_main.htm.
www.scanner-drivers.com/companies/992.htm
WinDrivers.com
Tamarack scanners - ArtiScan
www.tamrack.net - defunct
Trust scanners
www.trust.com
Umax scanners - VistaScan, MagiScan
www.umax.com
www.umax.com/support
- USA
www.umax.co.uk - UK -
some of the best support notes anywhere.
www.umax.de - Germany -
lots of XP drivers
Visioneer OneTouch
www.visioneer.com
Reviews - Flatbeds
PC
World Scanner reviews
ZDNet -
Reviews
MacWorld Magazine
Reviews
C-Net reviews
including scanners
PC World
Printer reviews
ZDNet - Printer
User Printer reviews
Popular Photography magazine, Feb 2001
10 Flatbed Scanners Tested
ComputingReview.com - User reviews - www.computingreview.com/reviewscrx.aspx
Scansoft - Buying Guide for Desktop Scanners
www.scansoft.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
Howtek (drum scanners)
www.howtek.com
Imacon High-end scanners
www.imacon.dk
Kodak film scanners
RFS
3600
www.kodak.com/global/en/professional/products/scannersIndex.shtml
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
www.nikon-euro.com - Support
www.nikon-image.com/eng/Lineup/
- Japan
Olympus ES-10 Film Scanner
www.olympusamerica.com
Pacific Image - PrimeFilm 1800
www.scanace.com
Polaroid scanners - SprintScan
www.polaroid.com
Sony - UY-S90 - 2200 dpi, 10 seconds, $6K.
www.sony.com.sg under Professional Products, Imaging
Tamarack scanners - ArtiScan
www.tamarack.net - defunct
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
Digital Eyes - www.image-acquire.com
Tony Sleep's reviews of film scanners.
www.halftone.co.uk
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
Third party scanning software for film scanners VueScan -
for most film scanners, some flatbeds.
www.hamrick.com
YAPSCU - for various film scanners.
www.yapscu.com
Don Maxwell's methods to scan slides on a flatbed, without proper TMA.
www.abstractconcreteworks.com/essays/scanning/Backlighter.html
Betty Winsett's method to scan slides with a fluorescent flashlight
www.afn.org/~afn11300/slides.html
Roger N. Clark's "How much detail can you scan?" and "Film vs. Digital"
www.clarkvision.com
PEC-12 film cleaner
www.photosol.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
ColorTrac
www.scanners.com
Contex
www.contex.com
Cruse
www.crusedigital.com
Ideal
www.ideal.com
Kip
www.kipcolor.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
Verbatim
www.verbatimcorp.com/Verbatim_Hardware/ss600.cfm
Visionshape
www.visionshape.com
ABC's of
High Speed Document Scanners
Xerox
www.xerox.com
Miscellaneous
Wizcom Pen scanner
www.wizcomtech.com
(PC
World review)
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
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
home.earthlink.net/~ritter/tiff
- The Unofficial TIFF Page
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.
Identify old Kodak film types
Kodak
Historic Photo Archive
About archival longevity and fading of inkjet prints
www.wilhelm-research.com -
Wilhelm Imaging Research
PC
World - Jun 2001 - general inkjets
PC
World - Sep 2000 - primarily Epson 870/1270 orange shift
Scanning Calculator / Printing Resolution Calculator
from scantips.com
PowerPoint presentations
www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq
PowerPoint FAQ
www.geocities.com/~webwinds/classes/powerpt.htm
PowerPoint Links
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
www.vtiscan.com/~rwb/gamma.html
- An explanation of monitor gamma
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
www.nmnh.si.edu/cris/techrpts/imagopts
Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History
www.rlg.org/preserv/joint/imaging.html Research Libraries GroupAnd this part says: "Thus, we conclude that a scanning process using today's tabletop scanners poses negligible risk to light-sensitive documents."
memory.loc.gov/ammem/pictel Library of Congress
sunsite.berkeley.edu/Imaging Berkeley Digital Library SunSite
slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~hamuir/678/glass.html Glass plate preservation
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.kawartha.net/~jleonard/care.htm
PCMA
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
Tony Sleep's Film Scanner Q-60
test descriptions
30-bits vs 24-bits
www.shomler.com/30bit.htm
Lars Ekdahl's scanning links
www.ekdahl.org/digital2.htm
Adobe Tips and Techniques, including Adobe Magazine
www.adobe.com/studio/tipstechniques
About.com links
Graphic Software
Graphic Design
Desktop Publishing
Web Design
CD-R is a good way to archive images
www.cdfreaks.com - CD/DVD Help
www.videohelp.com - CD/DVD Help
Care and Handling of CD and DVD, from National Institute of Standards and Technology
Andy McFadden's CD-R FAQ
Mich Richters CD-R FAQ
Media Sciences' CD-R FAQ
Recording
LP records to CD-R FAQ
Other
CD-R FAQ (Google search)
International paper sizes
www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html
Hanes T-shirt transfer tips
http://hanes2u.com
Desktop Publishing - (Hint: Use the Search menu)
desktoppublishing.com
Desktop Publishers Journal - lots of reviews online
www.dtpjournal.com
Keith Cooper's using film scanner as a microscope
www.northlight-images.co.uk/microscope.html
Photography
Photo.Net
www.photo.net
Luminous Landscapes
www.luminous-landscape.com
Norman Koren
www.normankoren.com
Photography Review
www.photographyreview.com
Kodak
Taking Great Pictures - Techniques and Tutorials
www.kodak.com/US/en/nav/takingPics.shtml
Agfa Photography
www.agfaphoto.com
Agfa Online Photo Courses
Fuji Film
www.fujifilm.com
Panoramic photography
www.panoguide.com
About Digital Cameras, including reviews
- Steve's Digicams
- www.steves-digicams.com
- Digital Photography Review
- www.dpreview.com
- Digital Eyes - (some scanner reviews)
- www.dcresource.com
- Imaging Resource - (some scanner reviews)
- www.imaging-resource.com
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