Hi, On Wednesday 28 February 2007 14:22:34 Felix E. Klee wrote: > > > If I do not find such a scanner, I may have to build a stencil that > > > I can put on my current scanner. Actually, this should not be too > > > hard. I'm annoyed however, that this step is necessary. Why didn't > > > Epson make the visible glass plate simply a bit smaller? > > > > Maybe some company has a patent on "zero edge" scanners? > > I doubt that what I need is patented. I think you still misunderstand > me. With the Epson 3490, the problem that I mentioned is not limited to > scanning books. It affects all kinds of documents. Already scanning an > A4 sized page is a pain: One has to position it freely in the middle of > the glass plate. The problem is that the scanner isn't capable to scan > the entire area of the visible glass plate: it cannot scan to the edge > of the plate. This is weird, but it's the truth - I'm not the first > person to encounter this problem. If there would be a photo copier that
Ah ok, sorry. I thought you wanted the scan are end device border (like on this Avision book scanners :-). As all the non-home Avision (HP et al.) scanner I have here scan the entire glas(/plastic) area :-) > had this problem, then close to nobody would buy it. But with scanners > people seem to be less picky, as long as they're "good" at scanning > photos. Indeed. Yours, -- Ren? Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name +49 (0)30 / 255 897 45
