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Retromags Presents! EGM2 Issue 8 February 1995 Database Entry! Download Directly!

Are you talking about internet service or cell phone data? We have unlimited internet bandwidth in Canada, it just costs extra. We get hosed on cellphone data though. The US does as well compared to Europe. You can get 4GB of 4G data, unlimited minutes and text withing the country, and 100 minutes of talk time to a bunch of other countries for 20 Euros a month.

I would go for: A big house like this one, but bigger and custom built, with a topless maid and topless pool girl and topless female chef and topless female gardener. It would be equipped with loads of solar panels, geothermal heating/cooling, and a grey water system. It would also be as automated as possible. a 2002 Limited Edition Pontiac Trans Am Firebird among a variety of cars 100 acres of land in the country so i could use my telescope And a bunch of stuff for in the house, like a pool table, air hockey table, original games and consoles, a ridiculously large TV, full Dolby Atmos sound system, triple wall ovens, giant fridge, a cold room for hanging Italian sausages made by the topless female sausage maker, large aquarium, my own server rack to be able to serve media anywhere in the house so my DVDs and Blu-ray and UHD Blu-rays stay safe and scratch free.

I never quite figured out pasting an image into a post or into a description field, which is pretty lame since I am supposed to be one of the people helping to run the site. What did you do to get it to work the way it does?

Did that magazine come out every month? I wouldn't pay that ever month since that would get unaffordable real fast. And with Japan being a small country with less cost and logistics needed for shipping, that $20-$50 would easy turn into $40-$80 in North America just to deal with the vast area the magazine would need to be shipped to. Plus the cost of importing all those good from China is probably more costly than it is for Japan to import from there.

Still slowly chugging along. If I wasn't fighting with kodi on my Raspberry Pi 3, I would have been finished days ago. If anyone is an expert in all the screwiness that is kodi, let me know. Maybe you can figure out the problems I am having. Or if you have a better option than kodi on a Pi 3, I am open to that as well.

No problem. Editing on this has been started. I also scanned a small Super Mario RPG guide that was included with an issue of GamePro.

So last December I said I was scanning Nintendo Power Issue 156 May 2000. I don't think I did that one. If I did, I didn't edit and release it, for two reasons: My ADF tends to pull pages in quite crooked sometimes, and because Nintendo Power doesn't leave a lot of space at the top and bottom of the pages, often content gets cut off, so I have to manually run the pages through again, which is annoying and a huge hassle. The second reason is that Phillyman supposedly has that issue, along with a bunch of others I was goign to scan. And since his ADF is miles better than mine, I would rather he scan them. What I did scan months ago was Issue 8 of EGM2. I set it aside for when there was nothing of Phillyman's to edit. I started editing it earlier this month, and after a dozen pages saw that a lot of pages went in crooked, or there was a tiny piece of glue on the spine which caused the scanner to muck up the scan by stretching part of that page. So I'm rescanning it on my flatbed Canon Lide 220. I did about half last night, and will finish it up shortly. So up next, officially, is EGM2 Issue 8 February 1995 (scan #278). I'll be updating this cover as well.

Kirby is one of the only series I am still interested in playing. The last game I bought was Planet Robobot, and that was the first game I had purchased in a while. I think what appeals to me is that they are fairly easy games, so I don't get frustrated playing the same parts over and over. But even though they are easy, they're still lots of fun.

My favourite spec is that it can hold 200 pages. And when they say 200 pages, they probably mean 200 pages of proper paper, which means it can hold more magazine pages. The ones I found on eBay seem to all be missing a tray/duplexer. I wouldn't think something like that would be easy to misplace.

I only saw that it said "For delicate document or folded sheets."

I save the original file after straightening and cropping, so a ctrl+s, which won't degrade the image. Then I do the colour correction and save a cop at full size and then a copy at 200 pixels, neither of which degrade. in a year if I have to open the original, maybe there will be a bit of degradation, but I challenge anone to be able to see it. If it's a concern for people, I can adjust my Action to save it as a PNG in a different folder or something. It's no extra work for me apart from that.

I watched a few videos about the Epson ADF scanners tonight. Generally the people liked them, and the quality of the scan was almost as good as the Fujitsu. The problem they had was the length of time the software took to load the scans, but it didn't seem to be that long at all, at least not compared to what I'm used to. The Fujitsu is out of my budget unless I fall ass backwards into some money. The Epson is still pricey, but it's more manageable.

I think it's how Photoshop handles files. I open the original, save a copy, make changes, and save another copy. I don't open the first copy and resave that with changes. So it seems like more recent versions of Photoshop don't make the copy you save the version you keep working on. I opened this file: made a small white circle with the paint brush, did Save As and saved a copy, made another circles, rinse and repeat 12 times, and the quality stayed the same: So with my method I'm not recompressing the image each time I do "Save As". When I do it your way with closing the copy and then opening it and resaving a new copy over and over, then it starts to get ugly. Thankfully I don't do that. I also tried something else, since with my method I do a straighten and crop and then Save before running the colour correction and saving the two copies. I wanted to see if doing a straight Save would make things worse, so I started with the original file, made a white circle, hit Ctrl+S to save it, made another white circle, Ctrl+S to save, and did that 21 times. No artifacting between the original and the final file which was resaved 21 times. So unless you are closing and reopening JPGS to edit them repeatedly, Photoshop has taken the worry out of recompressing the files over and over.

Yes, sorry. I forgot to clarify $600CDN. For all I know the Epson's quality could be just as good. I am hoping someone here has used one and could let me know. Any comparisons I have found talk about the speed and the software, but never about image quality. And they always use actual documents instead of images or magazine pages. I guess that's fair though, since that is what these were made for

I just checked the images from the test I ran this morning, and all the copies saved at quality 11 are the exact same size (4,218,880 bytes). And that's 12 bytes larger than the original.

Good point. Phillyman's scans are all jpgs. But I am saving it at it's original setting, so it shouldn't be adding more compression unless I reduce the quality settings, which I don't. When I resave the colour corrected copies as both Full size and 2200-pixel height, I have the quality set to 9, so it shouldn't be degrading the image. Logically, I should be able to resave 100 copies of the same image at the same setting without the quality changing. I just ran an experiment with a photo I took in Italy last month. I saved the original as a copy 20 times with the same quality setting as the original (11), then saved it once with a quality setting of 9. Original: The 20th save: The 21st save at image quality 9: To my untrained eye on my mediocre work monitors, these all look the same to me, or at least close enough that I can't tell the difference. If you're using a high end monitor or high ppi screen, it may be a different story

Currently when I scan something, I use the ADF that is part of my HP All-in-One Colour laser printer. The quality is fine, but it has a tendency to pull pages in quite crooked, and it only scans one side at a time, though it's pretty speedy. It also tends to cut off a bit more of the end of the page it's scanning than I would like. Normally this doesn't pose a problem, but I have a two-foot stack of GamePro magazines that I want to scan, and they tended to print their page numbers and stuff very close to the bottom edge. Running the GamePros through the HP guarantees that there will be many pages I will have to run through again because it cut too much off the bottom. And I just don't have the time or patience to sit at my computer to use the flatbed scanner anymore. Ideally I would like a Fujitsu ix500, but they are about $600 in Canada. That's a bit too much for me to spend on a scanner I would only ever use for this site without begging members for donations, so I have been looking into other scanners like it. So far the ones the Fujitsu get compared to are the Epson WorkForce ES400 / Epson WorkForce ES-500W, and the Canon Image Formula DR-C225, which is pricier than the Epsons. Both Epsons are faster than the Fujitsu, and can scan something that is 240 inches long. That's overkill, but it's handy for those smaller square insert ads that fold out to have 10 panels. So I am wondering if anyone has used the Epson scanners and if they were good for both image quality and scanning almost perfectly straight like the Fujitsu. I'm curious about the Canon too, because I know my $90 flatbed produces great scans, but the DR-C225 is a bit too pricey. I might as well get a Fujitsu that I know is good. Or if anyone knows of another cheaper ADF that is good and not terribly pricey.

We don't have much in the way of international magazines compared to those from the US. You can try one of our member's sites, http://kiwis.world/, run by kiwiarcader. He scans mostly stuff from outside the US. Out of Print Archive might be another source.

My flatbed spits out "scan_0001.tif", "scan_0002.tif" and so on, and my ADF spits out something similar. I always change the names once the scanning is done but before I start editing. And I recommend Bulk Rename Utility!