<html><body style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Colin, a simple "trick" is to put a black piece of paper behind the page you're scanning. That's what I've always done.<br><br>Dan, what's the link to the site you mention?<br><br>Bandwidth keeps getting cheaper... even down here in the antipodes!<br><br>Cheers,<br>A.<br><br><blockquote><br>----- Original Message -----<br><div id="origionalMessageFromField" style="width:100%;background:rgb(228,228,228);"><div style="font-weight:bold;">From:</div> "Dan Snazelle" <subjectivity@hotmail.com></div><br><div id="origionalMessageToField" style="font-weight:bold;">To:</div>"Colin f" <colin@colinfraser.com><br><div id="origionalMessageSentField" style="font-weight:bold;">Cc:</div>"synth-diy" <synth-diy@dropmix.xs4all.nl><br><div style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</div>Mon, 28 Mar 2016 21:24:46 -0400<br><div id="origionalMessageSubjectField" style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</div>Re: [sdiy] Music magazines archive site<br><br><br>
I take it everyone knows about the amazing American radio history website too ? Tons of great magazines on there <br><br>
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> On Mar 28, 2016, at 7:59 PM, Colin f <colin@colinfraser.com> wrote:<br>
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>> Of course they aren't "active " yet<br>
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> Ah, hadn't noticed that - he's only scanned 2 so far.<br>
> No wonder. It's difficult to get a decent scan without taking the staples<br>
> out so you can lay the pages fully flat, and these old mags suffer a lot<br>
> from bleed-through of opposite pages, and artifacts from the printing<br>
> process that need moire filtering.<br>
> Image PDFs get large pretty quickly too, I hope he realises how much<br>
> bandwidth is going to start costing if his site gets popular...<br>
> <br>
> Cheers,<br>
> Colin f<br>
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