KiwiArcader

Take a look at the full price and secondhand prices on Amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/Fujitsu-fi-6670-Professional-Document-Scanner/dp/B001D4OGQG/ref=redir_mobile_desktop?ie=UTF8&dpID=31ad3WG6uHL&dpPl=1&keywords=fi-6670aπ=AC_SY200_QL40&qid=1433533392&ref=plSrch&ref_=mp_s_a_1_1&sr=8-1

Only expensive if you need bigger than A4 size scanning. If you can get away with A4 then a Fujitsu Snapscan IX500 should handle fluro as shown by marktrade's examples above. If you need A3 scanning then yes, it costs a lot. My Fujitsu FI-5650c is an earlier model of his FI-6670a. These are horrific prices brand new. I acquired my one through EBAY for a bargain price but shipping to New Zealand was pretty expensive as I recall..

All I can say to purchasing a Mustek scanner is ... DON'T DO IT!!!! Just about everyone I know who has had these things (myself included) has regretted their purchase as they are incredibly unreliable. You would be far better off with a Brother A3 all-in-one scanner in regards to reliability and scanning quality even if their ADF's are pretty crap and like every scanner other than a Fujitsu they do not handle fluro/neon colors very well. Better to spend a little more than use a Mustcrap IMHO.

Worth every penny though :-)

You will find that putting those shiny, waxy feeling mags like GamePro and EGM will deposit color residue on the rollers of the scanner pretty quickly. It also leads to pages slipping and scanning incorrectly as a result.

Issue 67 (Vol. 06 issue 12) is now available over at my website. Definitely one big mutha' ..... at 282 pages and a 399MB file size.

Fujitsu scanners like mine (fi-5650c) and his (the newer fi-6670) are streets ahead of the older model scanners and even current models from other vendors. They do come at considerable cost however.

Seriously good work on these. I'll get PDF versions online at OGM tonight

Very nice :-)

Absolutely agree with that comment. You'll end up putting out as much content as the OoPA guys do if you keep revisiting stuff.

I actually don't mind yellowing as long as it is uniform across the page. It's just a reflection of the paper stock used and the age of the magazine. You should see some of the later issues of Antic I have in my collection. Talk about them taking yellowing to a whole new level. It's like art I tell you.....

She's looking pretty darned good anyway so I'd back burner redoing it unless YOU are unhappy with the results. I have seen plenty worse believe me. It's way more than good enough. I just noticed that some white pages have a little yellowing near the edges which has the appearance of being lessened through a little correction but then again I have been doing this for a long time so I tend to see these things. As it stands I am more than happy to have this on my site. Big thumbs up from me. Great to have another person prepared to spend their personal time preserving great game mags for everyone to enjoy.

You wouldn't believe how many issues are not cut straight resulting in slightly skewed pages. It's probably more common than straight to be honest. Some are only out by a couple of mm's to so and I tend to just run with them. It is a reflection of the print media after all. Some are truly shocking however and need at least a small amount of correction to make them reasonable but when you do that it results in cropping of pages so the trade off is lack of accuracy. Do you? Don't you? That's really a personal decision. There will be a group that say do it and others that say don't. Did you apply brightness/contrast correction? Images are a tad dark but I don't have a physical copy so don't know if that is just how it was printed. Some mags are and some aren't so I cannot tell. That's not a gripe. My Atomic issues for example are like that and I apply no correction at all. She's a lovely scan and I'd happily have it on my site for sure. :-)

I do it just to lessen the editing I have to do on my scans to next to nothing as I have so many issues from other members that do require editing that I'd grind to a halt on my own releases if I didn't. Do what ever you feel like. I don't miss 1/2 - 1mm that might get cropped. If you were using a flatbed scanner you'd lose 3 times that on the inner spine no matter how much you try and flatten it trying to avoid damaging the issue so no big deal in my opinion.

It's when you zoom images that the decreased DPI resolution becomes readily apparent as you are zooming an image that has 4 times less DPI so jagged edges are noticeable. My Samsung tablet has 226ppi unlike standard monitors but UHD monitors are becoming more prevalent and they have high ppi counts as well so in theory the higher dpi count should allow for smoother display on such devices. Note that they are still in the 200+ppi range so 300dpi scans should still be plenty fine even for those displays as far as I can tell.

Oh yeah. 72/96DPI looks fairly horrid on a high res Samsung tablet when you start zooming pages. Ugh!!! My advice was purely a reflection of my scanning process. If you want to scan at 1200DPI etc and have the space to store it then by all means go for it. My view of preservation has changed somewhat over the years. Now I am focused on being able to read my scans on my tablet and computer screens, and 300 DPI allows a reasonable file size along with good readability in my eyes. That's all that really matters to me nowadays ... being able to read the magazine. Meppi over at OoPA spends and inordinate amount of time cleaning up pages and generally fussing over an issue until it looks like it was printed yesterday. I find that overly pedantic but different strokes for different folks. If we all did that the amount of magazines preserved would likely be a couple of hundred or so if you look at their release schedule which is generally one every month or two. Being in my 50's I have a finite amount of time left on this planet so pushing them out at a reasonable rate just seems better to me. I haven't had anyone complain about any quality issues either so I must be doing something right.

I saw that re your comment about dodgy cropping. Auto-cropping is bad ... very bad ... as in my testing unless you have the backlight ON then it buggers up almost all the time on black background based pages and lots of advertising has that right? So best not use it at all. My advice when scanning using a document scanner is: 1. Do NOT auto-crop. Resist ... resist .... 2. Set backlight off to lessen bleed through from the opposite side. This results in a less vibrant white but it's worth it IMHO 3. Where possible spend the time to create profiles for magazines so you can change from one mag to the other without having to play around with settings. It's well worth it..... 4. When creating profiles use a magazine page to test as covers can be cut in a little so it's easier cropping a cover than losing an extra mm or two because you set the profile for a slightly smaller cover. 5. Try and set the edge in your profiles to be a mm in from the edge, especially for top and bottom and outer spines as it stops your page having black edges. I think a 1mm cut on the edges makes for a n ice looking scan and no-one will likely miss it anyway. 6. Don't brightness/contrast adjust as it tends to darken images which offsets the white paper benefits. If you do feel the need use paint software rather than the scanning software as you have way more control over it. In my software I very occasionally increase brightness by +1 and contrast by +10 in Paintshop Pro but that's all. Any more than that has a negative impact on dark images. 7. If the colors seem muted I adjust them, again in Paintshop Pro, by using Hue/Saturation/Lightness settings of Hue -5 & Saturation +15 to bring out the reds etc but generally I only do it on covers if they don't look quite right on screen 8. Use 300DPI. More than enough IMHO 9. Don't alter vertical sizing at all. If a scan is 3500 pixels high keeping it that way makes them look great on high res devices like Samsung tablets, especially when zooming pages. The beauty of using profiles is every page comes out the same size 10. Try and keep the file size between 200-400MB's as bigger files don't tend to work so well on tablets due to limited RAM etc. Believe me, I've tried opening 500MB+ files on an iPad and it ain't pretty. Other than that just play until you are happy with the results of your labors. The above are just how I approach my scanning so feel free to ignore everything. At the end of the day you are the one who needs to be happy with the output. Let me know if you have any questions.

Yep. If resizing then height based adjustments is definitely preferable due to 2 page mode that I use on my PDF's. I don't resize my own scans at all to be honest but if someone submits a magazine and pages are slightly different I look at resizing to whatever pixel height is most common or very close to it anyway.

Issue 12 (Vol. 02 issue 05) is now available over at my website. I almost cried cutting this up :-)

They are certainly not typical. I think it's the only mag I have seen where they have done this.

Yep, it is almost a waste of time trying to get it right, especially when quite often the page may have just been cut wrong in the first place. Then there are magazines like Edge where for content pages they quite often add an image overflow on the spine edges to allow the image to look seamless when the magazine is opened in what they deem a typical manner. Best way to show it is via an image.... Here you can see they have duplicated the inner section of the image onto the other side to allow for the missing few millimeters when a magazine is opened. However they don't do this with advertising, only with their content as if you look at this advert ..... ... you can see that even though I scanned incredibly close to the spine by the glue indents the picture isn't seamless. There is really nothing you can do about it so don't fret about it. The whole idea on preservation is to preserve the content the way it was printed and I take that to mean warts and all including misaligned images/pages and even non-straight pages. It's what makes print copies special in my opinion. Digital versions are so clean and perfect that to me they lack the feeling that you are looking at a printed magazine.

Arrived like that. I guess you run risks buying off eBay

That's the issue I have with mine. The bottom glass is pretty good but the top glass has specks inside it which can't be removed without dismantling the unit and I am a bit scared of going there in case I screw it completely. So I am having to scan one side then scan the back sides and then duplex the files which is easy enough to do but a bit of a pain. I only paid $200 for my 5th though so not a big price. If those idiots servicing Fujitsu in NZ would just answer their emails ....

The back light being turned off reduces this significantly at the expense of dropping the overall brightness a little but software can fix that by altering brightness/contrast Did you provide Fujitsu with the scanners serial number to acquire Scandal Pro?

Well, I haven't seen a notice appear on the iPad magazine app stating they are shuttering the magazine which they did do with other mags they closed so who knows other than the bigwigs at the company itself. Wait and see I suppose although in all fairness I have been expecting the demise of the USA edition since they dropped the USA version of the PlayStation mag.