Joe Scarfone

On ‎6‎/‎19‎/‎2018 at 6:32 PM, Fitful2 said:

My old scanner has been acting up & I need to replace it. Since most flatbed large format CCD scanners are either 10 years old or really expensive I am wondering if a portable scanner would work. I know there isn't much choice out there for flatbeds; Microtek, Epson & HP. I am currently using an HP Scanjet 8270, but have never liked it. Aside from software issues from day one, there seems to be a heavy glare and/or rainbow effect on every scans of my CGC books.

My first scanner was a microtek v6sul. I liked the images it produced, but that one broke. I recently bought a used one on ebay & had lots of compatibility issues with windows 10. Even Vuescan software doesn't have drivers for windows 10. So, I had to set it up on an old laptop (windows 7) only to find that there was a defect in the scanner. Every image had a vertical line from top to bottom.

Long story short, I looked on the forums here as a reference in the past, but even those are several years old now. 

Looking for any advise/ suggestions. Here are a couple of scans from the Scanjet

And here are some from my original V6SUL

The best CGC Scanner is a Xerox DeskMate 5540.  No glare and the cover is hinged in to close completely over the CGC slab.

On ‎6‎/‎19‎/‎2018 at 6:32 PM, Fitful2 said:

My old scanner has been acting up & I need to replace it. Since most flatbed large format CCD scanners are either 10 years old or really expensive I am wondering if a portable scanner would work. I know there isn't much choice out there for flatbeds; Microtek, Epson & HP. I am currently using an HP Scanjet 8270, but have never liked it. Aside from software issues from day one, there seems to be a heavy glare and/or rainbow effect on every scans of my CGC books.

My first scanner was a microtek v6sul. I liked the images it produced, but that one broke. I recently bought a used one on ebay & had lots of compatibility issues with windows 10. Even Vuescan software doesn't have drivers for windows 10. So, I had to set it up on an old laptop (windows 7) only to find that there was a defect in the scanner. Every image had a vertical line from top to bottom.

Long story short, I looked on the forums here as a reference in the past, but even those are several years old now. 

Looking for any advise/ suggestions. Here are a couple of scans from the Scanjet

And here are some from my original V6SUL

The best CGC Scanner is a Xerox DeskMate 5540.  No glare and the cover is hinged in to close completely over the CGC slab.