Appendix 1. Line Art Scanning

Line Art Scanning
 

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

 
 --Johann Schiller, German poet and playwright

Scanning line art is a wonderful opportunity to learn how to do a relatively simple thing perfectly. Line art images consist of black lines on a white background. You see examples of line art every day in the text, logos, and signatures that are all around us. You’d think that scanning this type of image would be simple; after all, it’s only pure black and white, right? Well, in order to really get control over your line art images, you’ll need to go through ...

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