Hello all,
We are setting up a digitisation project in the National Galleries of Scotland and we wondered if anyone on the list had experience of using the HP scanjet 8250 which comes with a built-in transparency attachment, which we would use for high res scans both of 5x4 transparencies and photographic prints. However there is a suggestion that this scanner will not be good enough and particularly that there will be problems with scanning transparencies 'through glass'. Alternatives suggested include the Microtek Artixscan 4500T SCSI, Microtek Artixscan 2500 SCSI, Microtek Artixscan 1800 Firewire, LaCie BlueScan 48 USB/Firewire Scanner. Does anyone have experience of any of these, particularly for anything involving transparencies and/or works of art? We are concerned that the above-mentioned alternatives may not offer as good a resolution as the HP (and most are much more expensive) or that they will not be as good for scanning photographic prints.
There are other operational and strategic concerns involved in this decision but at the moment I am just asking for technical advice/opinions from members of the group as quickly as possible.
Thanks.
Best wishes,
Sheila Perry
National Galleries of Scotland
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