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robbbyg:

anyone know how to scan the comic printing plates??

without breaking or scratching the glass??

i want to upload a bunch of Golden Age Comics but need to scan them to file then invert image so they can be read ,,,

i can do them so theyre eligible but have broken 2 scanners after 4 plates, i have 184 plates to scan so at this rate ill need about 30 or 40 scanners which isnt too economical..

Any ideas?????

Yoc:
Wish I could hep Rob.  I can only suggest a tripod and good digital camera and lighting.
Maybe Jim will have a suggestion?

JVJ (RIP):

--- Quote from: robbbyg on December 18, 2011, 06:57:23 AM ---
anyone know how to scan the comic printing plates??

without breaking or scratching the glass??

i want to upload a bunch of Golden Age Comics but need to scan them to file then invert image so they can be read ,,,

i can do them so theyre eligible but have broken 2 scanners after 4 plates, i have 184 plates to scan so at this rate ill need about 30 or 40 scanners which isnt too economical..

Any ideas?????

--- End quote ---
What do the printing plates look like? Are the curved? If so, what sort of radius are we talking about? Can we see a picture anywhere?

A good digital SLR camera would work. If you can stand the plates on end, you wouldn't even need a tripod - though that would certainly help. With a curved subject, you're unlikely to ever totally eliminate the depth of field variations, but it could work if you made one shot for each row of panels with the camera turned sideways to match the aspect ratio. You'd capture a lot of the images above and below the panel row you were capturing, but that would just give you more alignment material in Photoshop. Then merge all of the individual shots, maintaining only the center, focused portion of each.

I'm totally winging all this, but if it makes sense, robby, give it a try. A good SLR can be had for $500. Not cheap, but you wouldn't be likely to break it and when you were done with the printing plates, you'd still have a great camera. I would say that 10 Megapixels would easily do the job.

FWIW.

Peace, Jim (|:{>

narfstar:
What about inking the plates and pressing them on a piece of paper like they were made for ?

bminor:
Has anybody tried to scan in some books using a really good digital slr camera and a tripod?
It seems with the high resolution of cameras these days it would be very quick to do a 64 page book, once you get it all set up with the lights, tripod and camera all in the right place.
You could capture two pages at a time.
I would think it would work just fine.

B

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