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In reviewing my queue for scans I've submitted I see quite a few flagged as "Problem - low quality". Is that a reference to the actual scan or the card being scanned? If it's the scan I'll start scanning at 500 dpi instead of the 400 I've been submitting them at (many have been accepted at 400 dpi). If it's the quality of the card there's not much I can do about it since they're all over 20 years old and the only copy I have to scan. I figured what I have is better than no graphic at all as long as it isn't creased, torn or otherwise in really bad shape.

Do scans flagged as low quality eventually wind up in the database anyway if no one submits a better graphic? If they don't, how do they eventually get removed from the queue?

I noticed that about a lot of the ones of yours that got flagged. I didn't do it, so I don't know, but they looked okay to me. They were of correct size and all.

I scan mine at 200 DPI and the database resizes them down from there once they are uploaded, so I don't think that resolution is the problem.

Are you scanning the cards naked? (I do mean the cards, not you....LOL!)  If the cards are in sleeves and/or pages the scans can come out fuzzy.

Are your scans the ones of the Topps Stickers?  I don't know who flagged those.  I mean, you can't expect the scan to be sharper than the card was printed to begin with.

-Tom

Are you scanning the cards naked?

That was hilarious.  

And scanning cards inside sleeves and toploaders turns white cards gray.

This might be of help to you. 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/sforeqfnmf2pycy/Graded%20Sports%20Card%20Scanning.pdf?dl=0

I'm making sure I don't scan anything in a sleeve (the few that were originally in sleeves I've taken out before scanning), scanning at 400 dpi, straightening and cropping as needed before submitting. Many have been flagged as "not cropped", too, but I've been just putting up sith it and using the crop option below the graphic to just barely take the edge all the way around and every one of them has been taken on the re-submit. I get a little frustrated when things get rejected for a reason I don't understand. I want to be able to fix my own mistakes when it's an error on my end. It's my responsibility to do it correctly, not someone else's to clean up after me.

That said, I do appreciate having someone review my scans before they go in the database. Mistakes do happen, especially since I'm spending many hours a day sorting and entering what I have. My stuff has just been sitting, much of it not even grouped by sport or set, in card boxes and holders in the garage since 1993 and I had no idea about a lot of what was in there.

I'm definitely not looking forward to building my memorabilia database but that can wait until I'm done with a few other projects (stamps and family photos). I have 4 decent sized totes full of hats, souvenirs, programs, autographed minor league balls and other collectibles from many sports and non-sports. 

https://cardboardhistory.blogspot.com/p/how-to-make-your-scans-look-like-cards.html?m=1

I’ve had great luck using this method from fellow member Billy Kingsley

Not to hijack this thread into something else, but I gotta agree with Tom here.

Could someone tell me what exactly is wrong with the Topps Stickers in the queue? I know that there were one or two I saw with the back oriented vertically instead of horizontal, but even that isn't a "low quality". I'd be curious to know why those are an issue.