No photo of back of card

[Gr8Beldini]

Originally Posted by savedfrommyspokes

It is a scanner that has an ADF (automatic document feeder) that you feed cards through versus placing them on a flatbed scanner. With my ADF scanner, I have it set to scan both sides of a card on a single pass. I can scan 1000+ cards an hour, if necessary.

I don't mean to sound dumb, but I ask because I'm interested in something that scans front and back at the same time... You can't mean that you literally feed the cards through the scanner (can you?)... feeding the cards through anything would damage... unless, by "feeding" you are referring to something different than what I'm imagining.

[swarmee]

By feeding, most people put them in 9-page sheets and then load the sheets through the document scanner. The cards are protected in the sheets. This is how COMC receives and scans so many cards quickly. You can sometimes see the edges of the sheets or the hologram in the hole punch part in the images.

[savedfrommyspokes]

Originally Posted by Gr8Beldini

I don't mean to sound dumb, but I ask because I'm interested in something that scans front and back at the same time... You can't mean that you literally feed the cards through the scanner (can you?)... feeding the cards through anything would damage... unless, by "feeding" you are referring to something different than what I'm imagining.

Here is a video of an ADF scanner scanning cards in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8HkqF27YQM

I have a slightly lesser version of the 7160, a 5150, so my scanner is not quite as fast as the 7160. Over the years, I have fed through 100k+ cards without the first hint of damage. These scanners are designed to handle 20# sheets of paper w/o damaging them, so scanning the much less fragile 150-200# card stock a card is printed on w/o damage is a very reasonable expectation.

Some sellers scan the cards in Card Saver Is or IIS, but many others scan their cards raw with no damage what so ever.

Some people forget, cards were printed, cut and packaged by machines....scanning them in this fashion is not much different than what a card went through during their original production process.

FWIW, I am not scanning PSA 8+ quality material from the 50-60s, mainly mid to lower grade cards.