Equipment List
Available Computers/Scanners
| PC1 - Tabloid | Microtek 9800XL 11" x 17" flatbed. |
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| PC2 - Tabloid | Microtek 9800XL 11" x 17" flatbed. |
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| PC3 - Slide | Minolta D'image Scan Multi - film and slide scanner (includes adapters for 35 mm slides, 35 mm film, medium format film - which can hold 6 x 4.5, 6 x 6, 6 x 7, 6 x 9 film, APS sleeve film or 16 mm film). |
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| PC4 - General | Microtek i900 8.5" x 14" flatbed (includes tray for 35 mm slides, 35 mm film and transparencies up to 8.25" x 10"). |
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| PC5 - General | Microtek i900 8.5" x 14" flatbed (includes tray for 35 mm slides, 35 mm film and transparencies up to 8.25" x 10"). |
How do I decide which scanner to book?
| What do you want to scan? | Which scanner to book. |
| PDF (good for text and multiple page documents) |
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PC2 PC4 PC5 |
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| Small image (up to 8" x 13.5") |
PC1
PC2 PC4 PC5 |
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| Large image (up to 10.5" x 16.5") |
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PC2 |
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| 35 mm slides |
PC3
PC4 PC5 |
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| Negatives |
PC3
PC4 PC5 |
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| Large transparencies (up to 8.25" x 10") |
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PC5 |
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| OCR (Optical Character Recognition - used to scan text that can be edited in MS Word) |
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PC5 |
Software
| Software Name | Function |
| Adobe Acrobat and Distiller | converts documents to PDF |
| Adobe Dreamweaver | web page design |
| Adobe Illustrator | drawing/illustration |
| Adobe InDesign | page layout and design |
| Adobe Photoshop | image manipulation |
| Microsoft Excel | spreadsheet |
| Microsoft Internet Explorer | web browsing |
| Microsoft Photo Editor | photo editing |
| Microsoft Power Point | presentation authoring |
| Microsoft Word | word processing |
| OmniPage Pro | OCR scanning (Optical Character Recognition - refers to a capability of specialized software to scan and recognize printed characters as text (rather than just as a graphic image) |