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Originally Posted by markf31
Wow! I forgot about this thread, even though its only a little over a month and a half old. My scanner has completely crapped out on me now though, so I've begun to look for a new one and the suggestions here have been a big help. I also need a new computer. Seems my collecting budget will taking a hit for the next month or so as I upgrade some of my technologies.
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Mark,
I bought a CanoScan 8400F last August for $60 on Ebay. I LOVE it. It has the CCD (charge-coupled device) scanning element, and a cold cathode fluorescent lamp (so no streaking from reflective cards). It does a great job on vintage cards as well as modern cards. It doesn't matter if the card being scanned is slabbed, raw, in a one touch, or a top loader. Here are some of the scans I've done of my cards. I'll try to include a nice variety of different eras, thicknesses, card surfaces, and card protection types (all scans at 300 dpi).
  
 
  
 
I'm sorry I don't have any SGC graded cards to scan yet, but I think they'd look great, too.
I hope this helps ya!!!
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Last edited by the 'stache; 04-09-2013 at 07:24 AM.
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