{"id":8678,"date":"2016-12-06T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T08:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=8678"},"modified":"2016-12-03T11:49:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T19:49:46","slug":"feeding-my-scanner-addition-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=8678","title":{"rendered":"Feeding My Scanner Addition, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, I wrote about<\/a> my brand new Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner. My frustrations were short lived, however, because I returned the unit. Buh-bye!
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\nIt was difficult to find a replacement. Scanners aren’t a high-priority peripheral. Plenty of cheap scanners are available, which do the occasional job just great. Then you take a tremendous leap to high-end scanners, which offer document feeders and other professional-level features. Between the two is dry ground.<\/p>\n

As I searched for a replacement, I kept in mind the features that I wanted. Specially, I need to scan transparencies. I wanted a flatbed scanner. My price range was between $100 and $200. Below $100 you find low-end scanners. Beyond $200, high-end scanners kick in, with most going for $500 or more.<\/p>\n

Ironically, every search result suggested that the most perfect scanner for me was the Epson Perfection V600, the device I just returned.<\/p>\n

After a few more frustrating days, I came upon the Canon CanoScan 9000F Mark II.<\/p>\n

OMG. This is the scanner I should have purchased in the first place.<\/p>\n

As with the V600, the 9000F features quick buttons. And just like the Epson, the buttons don’t work on my Mac. So I must use the companion program, which is really stark. It doesn’t really give you much control of what’s scanned; a single “Auto” setting pretty much covers everything.<\/p>\n

To test the device, I scanned a document and a transparency. The results were on a par with the Epson, but the CanoScan was tremendously faster, about 4 times quicker is my guess. I was blown away!<\/p>\n

Figure 1 illustrates the final scan I took with the Epson V600 side-by-side with the CanoScan 9000F’s scan of the same transparency.<\/p>\n

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Figure 1. See the ugly green line on the left slide? That’s why I returned the Epson scanner and obtained the Canon scanner.<\/p><\/div>\n

For more money, I’m sure a high-end scanner would let me adjust the color values and more properly crop the transparency. Still, I can do that in Photoshop, so the subtle differences between the two images in Figure 1 are okay, aside from the ugly green streak, of cousre.<\/p>\n

For speed and accuracy, I’m most pleased with the CanoScan 9000F. Now if I need to write yet another blog post on my seventh<\/em> scanner, I will be grossly disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m on my seventh<\/em> scanner now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-8678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8682,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8678\/revisions\/8682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}