[ARC5] BC-1306 help needed

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An improvement of that technique is to scan pages with mixed text and 
photos twice, once in monochrome with grass cutter turned on (to get rid of the 
yellow to brown background) and again in gray scale with grass cutter either 
on or off, depending upon which looks better.  Then cut and past the gray 
scale photo onto the B&W text page.  The photo usually looks the same, the 
rest of the page is clean and sharp, and the file size is significantly 
reduced.  I've been doing it this way since 1999 when my first Zerox multi-function 
machine replaced the earlier Xerox mechanical copier.

Robert Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480

In a message dated 12/18/2016 14:58:22 PM Central Standard Time, 
aaf-radio-1 at aafradio.org writes: 
> Like Bill, I have an old flat bed scanner with a SCSI interface, Phillip 
> - an Epson Expression 836XL.  Perhaps he keeps his for the same reason I 
> keep mine - a 12" x 17" scanning area.  It saves a lot of time that 
> would be needed stitching pieces together for many of the standard 
> foldouts in military manuals.  Used with the latest Corel Photo-Paint, 
> it still does an exemplary job.  I normally scan in 1 bit B&W line art 
> mode unless there is a photo on a particular page - then I use gray 
> scale to capture the tonal range.
> 
>   - Mike  KC4TOS
> 
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