I bought a CCD scanner. Now I can scan paintings better
So I went scanner hunting! I'd been using a Canon scanner/printer for a number of years and the machine was falling apart so I went looking for another scanner. I got an Epson L6370 scanner/printer to replace it but found that the scans for the L6370 were terrible for scanning illustrations. There was some over-sharpening going on and I could not get the same level of details I got with my old Canon scanners. That's when my quest began. I did some digging around on the internet and found that the scanners I'd been using previously all used a Contact Image Sensor ( CIS) sensor. Those are most ideal for scanning documents. But I found that the CIS sensors on Canon scanners, like the Canoscan Lide (which I used to use to scan my sketchbooks ) were pretty decent for scanning illustrations. It could capture really fine details when I scanned at a very high resolution like 600dpi and above. But the CIS sensor on my new Epson L6370 wasn't terrible at capturing the fine text...
