If the score is available on ePrint, I just buy it, even if I have to buy with personal money. That's the best quality you're going to get.
Here's my procedure:
-Set original size on the copier to match the size of the music. Most published music is 9x12. Sometimes 8.5x11 standard letter size. Marching band stuff and a lot of jazz band scores are usually 5x7.
-Put the settings at the highest resolution possible on the copier, black and white.
-Once you have your settings where you want them, see if you can save as a preset on the copier for later use.
-Scan each page of the score to a thumb drive.
-Open the score on my computer and turn the pages of the PDF to vertical. Acrobat can do this, your school laptop probably has a license.
If you want to print a copy (in a copyright compliant way, of course) then you set your printer to auto-fit the output to the available paper, and it will calculate the percentage for you. This conveniently shrinks the 9x12 so you can put it in a standard binder. It also expands the 5x7 marching scores to make them easier to read.
If you're a real nerd, you can use a software called PDF Split and Merge that handles all kinds of things with PDFs. With any score that's more than a few pages (pretty much any grade 4 or above), I always scan so that the outside corner is on the corner of the glass, putting the binding toward the center. This lets the lid of the copier close farther so you don't get shadows on the scan. But then you have to turn the odd pages one way, the even pages another way, to make them all vertical. PDF Split and Merge can do that pretty quickly.
I know, I'm a nerd.
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