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The Samsung SM-531P; Parallel and USB1.0 connections, 600x600dpi laser printer at 8PPM, 300x300dpi document scanning at 6sec/page, 33.6kbps fax speed at 200x20dpi - 300x300dpi resolution.
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Image Scanning Samples
The plain paper document came
out as it was written after being scanned in at 600dpi, and the excerpt from an
magazine article also came out very well despite a few elements which could have
caused problems. Both documents are shown below.
Magazine Article |
Printed Page |
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This is
could have been a challenging document to scan in for a few reasons. The
magazine article is printed with white text on a dark blue background
(black here), as well as black text on a white background. The two
sections are different stories, and printed with different fonts and font
sizes. The OCR program Samsung use was smart
enough to output the entire white text section first
(both columns) before moving on the other story. There were some odd
characters thrown in where some of the paragraphs are indented, but that was
about the only "junk" text visible.
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This plain
text press release from LG scanned in easily, and without any errors we
could find. The OCR program was able to pick out the LG brandname
separately from the little logo.
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Scanning
in to print, fax or email a document are pretty much the same feature, and while text
was treated fairly well in the final result the process did make the outside
edges of words a little fuzzy. Grey scale, or images were met with different
levels of quality, but in general images are highly contrasted and subtle shading "pixelized",
though this is to be expected from 300/600dpi
scanning.

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Colour document scanned at 600dpi under black and white shading. Better for attaining clear
text without text from opposite side of the page bleeding through.
Shades are just drowned right out. |
Colour document scanned in at 600dpi under gray
tone shading. Notice how some of the text from the opposite side of
this magazine page bleeds through. |
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