Hey guys! I’m looking for a scanner to take better photos of my Pokemon card singles. I’ve looked into the Ricoh fi-8170; however, I’ve seen various posts about the scanner damaging cards. I’ve also seen the Epson V600 but haven’t seen much discussion about using it for card singles, just mainly graded cards. Does anyone have experience with using either of the above-mentioned machines for singles? Does anyone have any other recommendations?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
The hobby standard for ungraded cards is the 8170, however being a scanner designed for documents it’s a roll of the dice if your particular scanner will leave scratch lines on the front and back of the card once scanned. Being the model everyone turns to though there are several solutions out there to fix these issue.
I used a Canon R40 prior to upgrading to a 8170. It’s a less expensive scanner with less features but still very good. This scanner has the same scratching issues as the 8170.
The v600 is a great photo scanner and is the hobby standard for slabs, but if you’re looking for speed and hands off scanning it probably isn’t the best for ungraded cards.
Have you personally had any issues with the 8170? That’s the one I am leaning towards. I have a few thousand cards to get listed, and hand-taking photos, cropping, and cropping isn’t really feasible.
I have not. Issues mostly happen on English cards from what I’ve seen
I’m sorry. I’m at a loss tho:
How does the scanner scratch the cards?
Auto-feed document scanners have roll wheels to catch and feed the documents. So when the cards go through the scanner, the feeding mechanism can leave indents and or scratches.
That’s what I was thinking, but I thought to myself, “Auto feed seems like you’re asking for trouble.”
Anyway, TY for answering.
Hard plastic guides that are meant to help feed paper through