How to get a good scan of a card in plastic. (if you did not know)

**56Parkies** · 01-14-2017, 05:08 PM

Originally Posted by penguinsChief View Post

I should probably contact Epson and ask for a commission on all these sales!! Great to hear that everyone is finding this useful information. I will try and keep it updated as I learn a little more, there are always some tricky things when scanning cards and what not. Have a great day folks!!

Thad

The Epson is a great price. That refurbished one in the link @thehip66 posted was just too good to pass up, since I need a decent scanner anyway... and I didn't know the whole "CCT" thing, so now I can start re-scanning all my slabbed cards in. Can't wait to see how it looks!

**penguinsChief** · 01-18-2017, 12:19 AM

Everyone,
I had a question come in asking about the filter I am using for my heavy foil cards and what exactly it was and how I am using it. It had to do with a lot of the Black Diamond cards and how impossible they are to get good scans of. So as part of that I am posting an update here with the item and steps.

So first off it is nothing special, all it was is a VERY cheap frame from Ikea, I think I paid $1.99 USD for it, here is a picture of it:

SO I gutted that and took out just the plastic window part, and you will notice that it is covered in another peel off plastic film. This is the important part, whatever plastic you find check it for waves and what not my first couple of tries did not work out so well. So the plastic looks like all by itself:

So once you have that, open the scanner, put the filter down and the card face down on top of that:

I chose a particularly hard copy of BD and that is the 2006-07 base, all foil and really hard to get clean. I know I tried for hours with my old scanner and the best I could do was this:

I loaded the filter on the new scanner and scanned it with no changes or anything and got this:

Needless to say the difference is night and day between them. If anyone is having trouble finding the picture frame I bought a couple of extra's and would gladly sell them to you for oh say $100 a piece...just kidding!! All you need is a non-reflective film that is mostly transparent, which I have been told there are many out there, good luck finding them. If you have no Ikea, try Wal-Mart they may have something just as cheap, a little experimentation could pay off nicely.

Hope this helps!!

Thanks
Thad