Re: filmscanners: Canon Flatbed D2400UF

[TonySleep@halftone.co.uk (Tony Sleep)]

On Thu, 5 Apr 2001 18:24:40 +0100  Steve Greenbank 
(steve@gccl.fsbusiness.co.uk) wrote:

> If you consiser a full resolution scan of A4 you get approx
> 11(inch)*8(inch)*2400*4800*6(16 bit resolution RGB) = roughly 6GB. This 
> will
> take a minimum of 67.5 minutes on USB and a minimum of 2 minutes on
> firewire.

Except most scanners I have looked at max out at shoving 2-3Mb/sec out to 
whatever the bus is, because of their internal processing. USB will choke 
that back a bit, parallel even moreso (~750k/sec). Even SCSI2 is way 
faster than most scanners ever need, so Firewire is complete overkill in 
speed terms - but has other things going for it, ease of use etc.

Regards 

Tony Sleep
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