The top cover on this scanner can be easily removed, exposing the whole surface (‘platen’?), which I found to be a problem with many other easily available scanners.ĭoes anyone have any other suggestion as far as scanners are concerned, or advice in general how to best approach this problem ? My research locally, in Vancouver Canada, has narrowed the choice of scanners toĮpson’s Perfection V500, which has a nice flat surface on top of which I could move my paintings easily for the multiple partial scans. It will still be a lot of work, but I’m ready to ‘roll up my sleeves’ and get it done… The initial tests with some images seem to show that the photomerge is done relatively fast. So I’m planning to buy a regular photo scanner and use Photoshop’s photomerge function to stitch up the partial scans of my paintings. There are lots of paintings to scan, so the price for having them professionally scanned would be way too high, although I’ve had a few of my important images scanned by professionals. I guess the resolution of 600 dpi would probably be enough for this purpose.īuying a wide format scanner will not be a financial option for some time. I will need to scan with enough resolution to be able to print at double the size of my originals ( which are mostly 16x20 or 18x24 inches ). I paint, using acrylic and oil, mostly on a 4mm thick panel. I am fairly new at scanning and printing of digital images, so I may be asking some dumb questions ( I am a blonde after all ), so please bear with me.