- Advice on new scanner
- Posted by Alan Briker on July 24th, 2005
Just purchased a new iMac G5. Looking for an inexpensive scanner (<$200) for
document scanning and modest photo work. Any recommendations?
- Posted by CSM1 on July 24th, 2005
"Alan Briker" <ajb723@optonline.net> wrote in message
news:BF092F0A.2566%ajb723@optonline.net...
Any of the Canon Canoscan series in your price range will do a very nice
job.
Any of the Epson Perfection series in your price range will work fine.
I own a Canon Canscan 8400F, it will do film up to 120 size as well as
documents and photos of A4 size or smaller. Cost was around 150 USD.
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CSM1
http://www.carlmcmillan.com
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- Posted by Charlie Hoffpauir on July 25th, 2005
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 11:42:02 -0400, Alan Briker <ajb723@optonline.net>
wrote:
I've seen some good suggestions posted already. If you need another
one, check out the Epson Store for a refurbished Epson of whatever
model you like. I bought a 3170 Photo about 6 months ago and couldn't
be more pleased with it.
Charlie Hoffpauir
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/
- Posted by (PeteCresswell) on July 25th, 2005
Per Alan Briker:
I've got an Epson 2450 that I got on "Manager's Special" at CompUSA for about
fifty bucks. Works for me. Does FireWire or USB-2. Replaces an HP 6200c
and, IMHO, does a far better job.
Was in the local CompUSA (King Of Prussia, Penna) just today, and saw an Epson
48-something on "Manager's Special". Dunno what they were asking, but I'd
probably buy it in a hearbeat if I needed a scanner.
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PeteCresswell
- Posted by - on July 25th, 2005
Same thing at the Atlanta Buckhead store as of today. They wanted $349 for
a 4870. No way I would pay that much. Those scanners have been sitting
out on the shelf for a year of abuse by all kinds of idiots 
$50 like
you spent would be a steal though!
Doug
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Doug's "MF Film Holder" for batch scanning "strips" of 120/220 medium format
film:
http://home.earthlink.net/~dougfishe...mainintro.html
