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Scanner for Original Art

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comix4fun

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I use the Epson GT-20000 it's lightning fast and very quiet.

 

It's more than some want to spend though.

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LordZarak

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I have the Mustek ScanExpress A3 USB 2400 Pro

 

Its a nice scanner, but the software is very limited- and I am finding out the hard way that I likely dont have the ability to do the greyscale and bitmap needed to properly ink penciled pieces. If I was to use photoshop with it I would need an outdated plugin called twain which isnt happening for some reason, and hamrick doesnt seem to support this scanner while using a mac

 

 

I bought a similar scanner on Amazon (A3, but 1200 series) and encountering the same frustrations. I agree that it takes a nice capture, but I hate not being able to save to a JPG right away. Still beats my old low-resolution scanner that I had to paste three scans into one completed image.

 

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I have the Mustek ScanExpress A3 USB 2400 Pro

 

Its a nice scanner, but the software is very limited- and I am finding out the hard way that I likely dont have the ability to do the greyscale and bitmap needed to properly ink penciled pieces. If I was to use photoshop with it I would need an outdated plugin called twain which isnt happening for some reason, and hamrick doesnt seem to support this scanner while using a mac

 

 

I bought a similar scanner on Amazon (A3, but 1200 series) and encountering the same frustrations. I agree that it takes a nice capture, but I hate not being able to save to a JPG right away. Still beats my old low-resolution scanner that I had to paste three scans into one completed image.

 

You can if you use gimp to capture the image instead of the app that comes with it.

 

http://www.gimp.org/

 

There's a little learning curve with the software, PM me if you have any questions.

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mister_not_so_nice

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Hi all. I bought the Mustek A3 USB 2400 Pro, but can't figure out how to save images in jpg. Is there 3rd party software I have to download?

 

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

I use the A3 USB 2400 Pro to scan all of my stuff.

I don't use the scanner software. I open a prgram that came with windows(no idea what version (shrug) )

 

I just go to Start > Devices and Printers > double click on the scanner icon.

 

It gives me the window you see below, and I just set JPG as my default method.

 

 

I have noticed that the scanner bar does not go all of the way to the bottom, so the last 1/8" to 1/4" of the scanner bed is useless

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Hi all. I bought the Mustek A3 USB 2400 Pro, but can't figure out how to save images in jpg. Is there 3rd party software I have to download?

 

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

I use the A3 USB 2400 Pro to scan all of my stuff.

 

Does this particular scanner also work with CGC graded books?

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mister_not_so_nice

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Hi all. I bought the Mustek A3 USB 2400 Pro, but can't figure out how to save images in jpg. Is there 3rd party software I have to download?

 

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

I use the A3 USB 2400 Pro to scan all of my stuff.

 

Does this particular scanner also work with CGC graded books?

 

I use an HP scanjet g4000 for slabs. As a rule, Musteks aren't very good with graded book(or anything not directly on the bed of the scanner)

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Hi all. I bought the Mustek A3 USB 2400 Pro, but can't figure out how to save images in jpg. Is there 3rd party software I have to download?

 

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

I use the A3 USB 2400 Pro to scan all of my stuff.

 

Does this particular scanner also work with CGC graded books?

 

I use an HP scanjet g4000 for slabs. As a rule, Musteks aren't very good with graded book(or anything not directly on the bed of the scanner)

 

Any thoughts on a scanner that works for both?

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mister_not_so_nice

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Hi all. I bought the Mustek A3 USB 2400 Pro, but can't figure out how to save images in jpg. Is there 3rd party software I have to download?

 

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

I use the A3 USB 2400 Pro to scan all of my stuff.

 

Does this particular scanner also work with CGC graded books?

 

I use an HP scanjet g4000 for slabs. As a rule, Musteks aren't very good with graded book(or anything not directly on the bed of the scanner)

 

Any thoughts on a scanner that works for both?

 

If I did I wouldn't have two scanners :makepoint:

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I work in an office and just this week started to use one of our massive scanners to scan my art.

 

It won't scan pencils though, only the blacks. It ignored everything else. I'm assuming these are the kinds of scanners comic publishers use to get their line art. But I have quite a few pencils that I want to scan since camera pictures do nothing go show the pencil lines.

 

I don't want to buy one of these scanners just to scan pencils though--that's money I could spend on art instead.

 

Anyone know if staples, kinkos etc have good scanners for pencils?

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I work in an office and just this week started to use one of our massive scanners to scan my art.

 

It won't scan pencils though, only the blacks. It ignored everything else. I'm assuming these are the kinds of scanners comic publishers use to get their line art. But I have quite a few pencils that I want to scan since camera pictures do nothing go show the pencil lines.

 

I don't want to buy one of these scanners just to scan pencils though--that's money I could spend on art instead.

 

Anyone know if staples, kinkos etc have good scanners for pencils?

 

I do the same thing and the first few things I scanned also just did everything as solid blacks/white. I found (by staying late and pretty much trying every option on the machine) that there's lots of different settings that do show the pencils and even all the different blacks - so you can even tell what was done in pen and what was done with a brush even using the same ink - a bit like when you hold a page at an angle to the light.

 

It may be worth taking a couple hours to properly spend some time with the machine as our place just had the guy set it to pretty much big standard defaults for everything....

 

I also got some kudos for staying late/coming in early at the office - but just don't tell em it was for scanning all my own stuff!!!!

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I work in an office and just this week started to use one of our massive scanners to scan my art.

 

It won't scan pencils though, only the blacks. It ignored everything else. I'm assuming these are the kinds of scanners comic publishers use to get their line art. But I have quite a few pencils that I want to scan since camera pictures do nothing go show the pencil lines.

 

I don't want to buy one of these scanners just to scan pencils though--that's money I could spend on art instead.

 

Anyone know if staples, kinkos etc have good scanners for pencils?

 

I do the same thing and the first few things I scanned also just did everything as solid blacks/white. I found (by staying late and pretty much trying every option on the machine) that there's lots of different settings that do show the pencils and even all the different blacks - so you can even tell what was done in pen and what was done with a brush even using the same ink - a bit like when you hold a page at an angle to the light.

 

It may be worth taking a couple hours to properly spend some time with the machine as our place just had the guy set it to pretty much big standard defaults for everything....

 

I also got some kudos for staying late/coming in early at the office - but just don't tell em it was for scanning all my own stuff!!!!

 

I need to do the same in my area. We have a pretty good scanner and I've scanned a few things at pretty high resolution, but playing with the settings (and "fixing" things other people changed) has taken a lot of time. I'm just nervous about bringing the art into the office because I don't want to leave it unattended at ANY time since things have been stolen from other offices in the area and I do need to leave my area on occasion.

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