[Jewelry making - Article 00386] - Re: [Orchid] 3D Scanner Suggestion

[Alastair]

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Hi Lauren,

    I believe that modern scanners that have a good depth of focus are
    rare and expensive dedicated 3D scanners. I have found that the old
    (obsolete?) scanners that have a single white light tube will scan 3D
    objects. New scanners have triple light tubes and cannot focus more
    than a few millimeters, but are faster and have a higher resolution. 

    With the above in mind, I purchased a Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 4100C
    at a garage sale to try out. The software drivers came on a floppy
    disc made for Windows 95; my computer doesn't have a floppy drive but
    luckily Windows XP found the scanner and drives it! It scans jewelery
    wery well, in colour, with a good depth of focus and a max resolution
    of 600dpi. I use it for snapshots of my work, not studio quality, but
    the quickest way to get acceptable reference pictures in digital
    format. 

Alastair
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