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Posted By: Dave

I really hadn't taken scans of my slabbed cards, so I gave it a try.

I have an HP 3970 that is about 1 1/2 years old and cost $99 at Best Buy. It has a USB interface.

To try to get the best image, I scanned so that the output was 2x original size, with jpg conversion with high quality. File size is 2.8 MB. I then used MS Picture It Photo - about $35 - to rescale, crop, and change resolution for posting.

The full image here is my original scan that has been scaled down by a factor of 4, so it is now 1/2 size, and 67 kB. It appears to be almost the proper size on my display.

I then started with a fresh copy of my original, and cropped to only the bottom edge, kept it 2x, and adjusted the JPG image quality until it was small enough to upload here - 120 kB. The apparant scratch is really a cat hair that was on the outside front of the slab.

Dave