I don't care too much about file sizes with how cheap storage is these days but I've done some scanning projects in the past and there's always a critic, LOL.
Best, Sean On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Noel Chiappa <j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote: > > From: Sean Caron > > > I have found that even fairly fine detail reproduces okay with a 300 > > DPI scan ... there's no need in scanning with extraneous bit depth > and > > then you start to get people complaining about file sizes > > I have found that one can generally have one's cake, and eat it too: > if I scan at 600dpi in black and white, and then use "CCITT Group 4" > compression, the resulting images (of prints) are ~200KB per page. > Is that small enough? :-) > > Noel >
