1963 Kahn's Weiners

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Posted By: Robert Dimand

Thanks, the scanner is a Brother 4 in 1 MFC-8460N. Combo Laser printer scanner, fax, copier. Not a high end. The key for the scanners is depth-of-field and those that copy can be checked by bring a slab with you and making a copy to check focus. The scans start at 150 dpi, hi res about 1.2 MB per scan. Then I use Photoshop Elements (aka Photoshop Lite for us novices), open the image and then save them in "save for web" setting, at 600 pixels wide (for the Kahn's) and at 85k per image. Very happy with these settings as all of the scans are under 100k (PSA Registry likes that). I often will go up to about 350k if it's for eBay for a larger image. All of this is very easy with photoshop Elements. I don't alter or fix the image at all, so it's easy and fast. Yopu can make them any size, the smaller ones in the first post are 400 or 450 pixels wide.

In general it's not an expensive scanner that matters, but it's one with excellent depth of field, I've never been able to tell from a spec sheet, just by trying them.

Here's a 62 Jerry West Kahn's