Scanning side art

oppolo

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What scanner have you used successfully to scan side art? And did you stitch it together with Photoshop?
Is there a scanner out there that has a removable lid that would allow flat scanning?
 
I have a ScanJet 4600 ... Older model and had to find a unused "used" model... The new version isn't as nice. Take off the lid and you can hold it upright in order to scan side art. Used it to scan Venture and Mouse Trap art and stitched it together.

When I did ICB I used an older Epson and laid the cabinet down on 2x4's and put the scanner upright "under" the cabinet. Not the best way to do things but still worked Ok.

ICBScannerSetup.jpg


Also, if you are ink jetting and not screening the art and want the authentic look of the halftones (faking it)... Make sure your halftones are 600 DPI if at all possible in order to keep the details. You can mix raster and vector. 300-600 DPI Bitmap tif for the back line, vector fills behind the scanned line and when importing bitmap tifs into Illustrator (or another illustration software) you can do a color fill on this raster bitmap tif.

Worked great for ICB!!!

ICB_Vectorized_Hair.jpg
 
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