A professional quality flatbed scanner combined with a prepress quality color printer can produce exhibit quality art work, all digitally.
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The scanned images here are worth looking at for their aesthetic beauty. They are actual flowers, arranged, dried (flattened) then rearranged as a flower arrangement in miniature.
Botanists have similar needs to scan their millions of dried botanical specimens, but more in A3 size (11 x 17 oversize especially). Thus flatbed scanners can be a more economical means to scan botanical specimens for botanical gardens, natural history museums, and botany departments of colleges and universities.
The fried flowers here are arranged as art, not as a botanical reference specimen. These flowers were arranged by Marie-Elisabeth David, mother of my former partner Andrea David, and kindly loaned so I could scan them back at my studio (circa 2000 in Essen-Werden , Germany ).
We will eventually scan them at a higher resolution, enlarge them, and print them at A3 or 11x17 oversize for exhibit. We hope you enjoy this combination of Mother Nature and the artistic ability of Marie-Elisabeth David.
Fuji , Umax, and Heidelberg scanners could handle 3D objects. Creo is great for flat work and transparencies, but is not intended for 3D objects. We don’t know whether Screen Cezanne Elite can handle things like flowers and leaves because we don’t have any Screen scanners at either of our two university testing labs.
We look forward to testing the new Epson scanners later this year, to see if they can handle 3D objects.
Last updated April 15, 2004