Drum Scanner.. any one uses it?

[mondo]

Do any of you good people uses drum scanner. I know its expensive just want to know your experience or where did you get it from? Thanks

[Rodi]

Yeah, Screen 1030ai from the 90's. Great detail, you need photoshop to enhance the color, but the detail is deep.

[FatCat]

I used to use a drum scanner years ago for prepress work. However, we got rid of it due to major improvements and lower cost for flatbed scanners. I can't see why it would be necessary for sign making unless you're doing fine art reproduction or something critical like that.

[RobGF]

Yes. We recently retired our Crosfield Celsis drum scanner. Wonderful piece of kit but in this age of digital photography there are very few analogue (transparencies) being shot so what's the point? I certainly can't imagine keeping a drum scanner around for the occasional print (prints suck).

Rob