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Tavis indirectly berates CNET et al, and then starts ranting.

So the size I'm looking for pumps the cost up somewhere around 2 or 3 grand for scanners. Shoot. I might be able to find one for just over a grand or so with a similarly sized scanning bed. But is the quality as good? I don't know. No review seems to care about reproducing original, hand coloured material. I don't give a fuck how good a machine is at digitizing a shiny photograph, a glossy magazine page, or a transparency from someone's lecture. None of that matters to me. They might as well tell me just how useful the box it comes in is when a kid's trying to make a fort in his parents' living room. God damn it. I just want to know how it handles regular fucking paper. How good is it for that? No reviewer seems to know or care. Why would anyone use a scanner on regular paper. Artists wouldn't have a use for that would they? Fuckers. I could, I suppose, turn to other artists already working in the digital realm, but most of them are just so intent on using P...

I need to get me a scanner.

Have drawn a couple single page comics of late but can't share them online for lack of scanning equipment. Also need to get a new keyboard for my Mac mini. Might do that today. Keyboards are cheep, but a good scanner that works with a Mac and has the space I need (at least 17.5 inches by 11) might not even exist, and definitely wouldn't be inexpensive. Shoot.