Well here is my first test scan, and I am sure there are some settings that I can tweak.
I set everything up to the maximum quality just to see what it is capable of and I may not need to go that high. Since I wanted it to assist with some insert decal design I scanned the skateball playfield still with mylar and still dirty. First thing I noticed the scanner doesn't like the deep purple - turns it almost black and even with adjusted hue, saturation etc it doesn't improve it at all. Though I did process as a jpeg and there are 7-8 different files types that the scan can be saved as so maybe something may change it's appearance though think it is related to the scanners 4 leds for lighting ????.
On the box it says it can do a A3 size scan but because I set the quality levels up to the maximum the scan size is reduced. The file Skateball Scan As Is unchanged was 5.9mb in size (330 x 280mm at about 4/5ths scan memory size allowable at the highest setting) and obviously the image you can see is reduced it to show you all. I took the image into Illustrator and you can zoom up to a full 21 inch screen on 3cms of the image and the scan is quite tight. There is a bar top left letting you know the image size because when you are moving the mouse around the image is joining and correcting itself constantly and you can move the scanner mouse slowly in any direction - and does not really distort, so pretty good. So to scan a full playfield I think you would have to do (at the highest quality) about 8-10 scans and lay them over each other in like illustrator to complete the image. Those who have a windows computer the mouse comes with additional software to stitch scans together but not available for us mac users. The lead is slightly painful but I didn't get setup properly - I went for a quick impatient scan test to see results method. Don't lift the mouse otherwise start again and lastly push the stop scan button and patiently wait 30 secs at highest res for the scan to process into a image - if you don't wait and push the stop / start button again it starts a new scan and you loose the last scan
. The scan programme is basic but edit mode lets you rotate the image, crop and adjust hues, brightness, saturation and contrast and probably more for the pc user.
For $109 good value for the odd scan and more accurate than taking a photo as then you would have to muck around with it to get the actual size. I brought the image into Illustrator and the image was dam close to actual size.
So overall pretty good for what it is.
