Friday, March 25, 2022

Scan #10000

 I hit a little milestone last night...my new scanner hit 10, 000 scans. I'm not sure I can really call it a new scanner anymore, I've had it since 2019 so it's now 4 years old...but it's still the new scanner to me.  

Granted, that number does include the times where the scan was unusable so I deleted it and redid it, so usable scans is a considerably lower number. Just earlier that night it took 4 scans of one page before I got a usable one so it's less, but even if I didn't use them, the scanner still scanned. 

Scan #10,000 happened to be a full page of 1995 Maxx Crown Chrome, an-all clear plastic card set that gets very sticky, which is why they are all in penny sleeves. I got about 3/4ths of this set as a PIF in the previous week and I'm working on scanning them. They aren't the most fun cards to scan because the sleeves attract dust but they are too sticky to put on the scanner directly. 

My favorite card here is the Talledega card in the middle, even though it's horizontal. 

By time you read this, I may have gotten these cards cropped down and properly edited/rotated, who can tell since I'm scheduling it? 

One thing about this set that makes it very difficult...Maxx forgot to put the card numbers on the cards! So labeling them requires the checklists (I now have all 4) or the Database. Once I finish cropping these, I will start scanning the new arrivals from COMC. 


9 comments:

  1. Wow, that's quite a milestone Billy, congratulations! I haven't kept track of my scans over the years, but I'm sure it's much closer to 100 than it is to 10,000.

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    1. Luckily, the scanner keeps track of it for me, no thinking required! This is scanner number five since 2005 so I don't know the actual number but it's way more than I know.

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  2. Congratulations on the milestone. You're smart about scanning a bunch of cards at one time, then cropping and rotating each card. I should start doing this.

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    1. Photoscape makes it easy...most 9 card pages take me about 5 minutes total to edit both sides. This set takes longer, chrome and mirror foil are a lot longer.

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  3. Someone should be paying you for all that work, lol. Congrats on the 10k!

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  4. Congrats on making it to 10K! When you're finally done the scanner's gonna fall apart like the Bluesmobile!

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    1. Hah! One of my previous scanners was literally held together by duct tape after the lid broke off!

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  5. These cards are pretty cool! I love that they included race tracks. I'm going to pick up some of these cards for tracks I've visited.

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