Mike, Yes that's from the LS4000ED, what I'd love to show you is a 9x12 print on the Epson -- sharp as a knife and vibrant. The jpeg is cut down to 72 pixels/inch of course, and I just cut the print files down to 360 so their difference is remarkable. Here's another recent one from the 4000, again sized at 72 pixels.
But the LS2000 is almost as good, very close to the 4000. Here's an image I scanned a couple of years back on an LS2000 -- now to be fair to the 2000, the scan was just saved in jpeg and this is cropped from maybe 1/4 of the image, but it's not hard to look at, I think.
I've never really tweaked my scanners much, just set them up mostly with defaults and then adjusted the images in Photoshop, it seems easier since I'm still going to be touching them with Photoshop anyhow. The Level histogram is the key to getting rid of muddiness. First crop to the finished size, or at least get rid of any black or white borders you won't have in the finished image. Then open Level and slide the left mark up until you have true blacks (the farther to the right, the higher the resulting contrast), and slide the right mark down until you have the top white point you want. Then fiddle the midpoint -- you can do that basic Lev correction in maybe ten seconds.
If you want, send me a high quality jpeg from your ES2000, and let me see what you're getting, how it compares to what I've been starting with. That would be very interesting!
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