Scanning Graded Cards With Inner Sleeve

[rugbymarine]

I spent more time messing around with settings, and I think I've got an acceptable result. It's just not as strikingly clear as the scans of the cards WITHOUT that little sleeve. I have found I'm not great at having 99% of whatever I'm doing be nearly perfect, and the last 1% being just good. Too much OCD, I guess. Here are 2 cards with sleeves in them.

1960 Leaf Brooks Robinson



1955 Bowman Carl Furillo:



For comparison, here's what the Epson v600 does for other cards. Both 1949 Furillo scans are larger than I would usually post to see the difference:

1949 Bowman Carl Furillo (scanned on HP ENVY all-in-one):



1949 Bowman Carl Furillo (Epson v600):

[rugbymarine]

And since this is the pre-war section:

[rugbymarine]

As for settings and other general info, I cannot take credit. net54 member NGS458 (Nic Schmitt) has put extensive time and effort into this, and has shared it many times.

https://www.net54baseball.com/showth...g+graded+cards

I started with everything he said, and made a few changes. Please note: None of these are meant to disagree with Nic. I only tinkered to find what I thought looked like the clearest scans, as well as the most accurate representation of the card as I hold it in my hand.

1) I use 48-bit scanning. In his guide, Nic suggests using 24-bit. Bumping up to 48-bit does increase file size. I noticed on a few specific cards with large swatches of dark color (black sleeves in 60s Topps, dark backgrounds in 1957 Topps), switching to 48-bit decreased a faint 'cross-hatch' look that showed up in those dark areas.

2) I turned off the Unsharp Mask setting. Nic suggests Low, but he spends time in his guide talking about why each setting may be better.

3) I went into the Tone Correction menu (The middle of the 5 small picture icons just above the 'Unsharp Mask' setting), and changed from the default Linear setting to High Contrast.

[nineunder71]

Wow, something must be in the air, I ordered a V600 on Wednesday, states it should be here Tuesday, I as well am excited to get it

Let us know any tricks you may discover and I will do the same once it gets here

Cheers All