Re: How Do I Scan Newsprint Without Bleedthrough?

Ronald Bruck <bruck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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In article <Xns97FE8A2F35B8lostinspace123univer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Don
<lostinspace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

no@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Davy) wrote in news:1HZrg.74734$LI3.35789
@fe12.news.easynews.com:

Hi Jim.
When ever I scan a newspaper I sometimes put a black card, or
something black behind the page, about the only thing you can do I
guess to stop 'print through' from the other side. Hope it helps.

Davy


I use a piece of black matting/cardboard that was purcahsed at a
craft store.

A much better option for newspaper materials is taking the newspaper
to
somebody that has a "quality" copy maching with a "good" toner
cartridge installed and coping the material to white pages.

There will not be any bleed through.

Then scan the white pages.

Presumably the copy machine has a scanner at its heart. So why does
the copy machine do it right, and the scanner not? What's different
in the settings?

Or does the copy machine NOT have a scanner at its heart? I'm not
quite sure what it COULD have...



Perhaps it's "Ripley's Believe it or Not?"

I've scanned and copied 120 year old newspaper articles from a publication
known as "Horse Review".
The pages are oversized at 11 x 17 and the paper quality is very thin. At
times there is bleed through from a back page that has a very dark graphic,
however for the most part the text copies just fine.

Better quality copy machines have a higher depth-of-field that scanners.
I don't care to understand the technology, only to accept that it works
for me.
There have been some previous discussions between myself and another in
this same NG. This person was interested in scanning text lines from old
and yellowed Daily Racing Forms.
A copy machine negates the yellowing. Why, I'm not sure, nor do I care. My
only interest is that it works effectively.
.

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