Ive seen some photo feeding scanners at the store. How well do they work?
There have been some attempts by scanner manufacturers to mass market photo scanners that can feed a batch of standard prints. We test these products whenever they come out. We’ve found them to have the following problems: • They drag your photos across the glass as they feed them. This causes pieces of dust to scratch both the prints and the glass. • They still scan through glass so dust and scratches are still a problem • The scratches on the glass begin to show up on every scan. The first few batches won’t have the scratches but once the glass is scratched, every subsequent photo will show the scratches • They jam or double feed often and the problem worsens over time. • The images still need to be cropped, rotated and color enhanced so just scanning them isn’t enough. They require a lot of work afterwards, too. They usually include software that will do the color enhancement automatically, but we’ve found it to produce an image with poor contrast and washed out colors. It looks lik
