[WEB4LIB] Re: Resolution for scanning images for the web

[Dan Lester]

At 12:20 PM 8/17/99 -0700, Chris Lott wrote:
>Many (all?) scanners actually ARE scanning at their highest resolution and
>then downsampling to achieve the dpi chosen anyway. So doing it yourself is
>just performing the same operation manually.

If this is the case, why does it take so much longer to scan at a high res 
than a low one?  On most scanners I'm familiar with, the step-size changes 
when you change from 300 dpi to 75 dpi, for example.  So, it not only takes 
longer due to more steps, but also due to more data being passed to your 
computer.

dan

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