I'm looking for recommendations for a home scanner. Primary use will be for documents, secondary use is photos. I'll be connecting it to my 12" 1.5 PB. I'm on a bit of a mission to clean out the paperwork jungle in my filing cabinet. I plan to scan all those semi-important papers and store them electronically on my machine and also to sync to my .mac account. I'm more interested in the scanner being quick and easy to use than in generating photo quality scans. Any advise would be appreciated.
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Allow me to suggest one of the numerous All-in-one scanners. I have an Epson CX5200 that creates high quality scans. The nice thing is that it can be used as a copier and a good quality printer as well.
I don't have any specific suggestions, but there is a slightly lower margin of OS headaches if you use this shopping list.
parrothead said:
I've tossed that idea around too but I already have a recent printer and fax/copier. A friend pointed out that the downside to an all-in-one is that if it goes down it takes the whole desk down with it. By this I mean that with separate devices at least you could continue to do some work if one machine was not functioning.
flyguy451 said:
I'm on Tiger, too...oddly, they updated the style sheet that drives that page to the Tiger look but not all the text. I would say, though, that yes, this list is definitely going to work properly in Tiger's ICA, and there are probably others that are not yet on the list. One big advantage of ICA is that, like iPhoto/ICA supported cameras, I believe that you do not have to install any software or do any setup to use an ICA scanner -- just plug it in and run ICA.
iGary said:
*does an impression of the guard in The Matrix, when Neo sets off the metal detector and reveals all the guns under his trenchcoat* Oh, @%$#!
Seriously, though, I've always had good luck with Canon scanners...but that's just me. Take it for the .02 it's worth.
iGary said:Seriously, though, I've always had good luck with Canon scanners...but that's just me. Take it for the .02 it's worth.
Too bad Nikon isn't in the scanner market, or you could really set this thread on fire.
I don't really need a scanner -- but I would make use of one for similar purposes (document archival) if I had one. It's frustrating that none of those $50 scanners that every windows user and their sister have hanging around are often not compatible with Macs (esp. the really cheap umax and visoneer ones) but its probably ultimately a good thing for the platform. If one of those worked, I would just borrow it from someone for a couple of weeks and be done with it.
mkrishnan said:Too bad Nikon isn't in the scanner market, or you could really set this thread on fire.
Ain't that the truth?
iGary said:
Nice! With my budget I should just about be able to afford one of the little plastic frames to hold the negative strips.
I'd avoid umax - never had them, but they don't support osx* on their old scanners, and all my users im migrading to OSX from 9 are S.O.L. I will never buy their products because of that, left a bad taste in my mouth.
*Yes, i know there ARE drivers out there made my the open source community, but why can't they support the product they sell?
*Yes, i know there ARE drivers out there made my the open source community, but why can't they support the product they sell?
What some have missed is the need for document scanning. I might suggest looking at the Epson RX500 or RX600 all-one-units. Otherwise the the Epson 4870 or 4990 might be nice. I am using the CX6400 for my "main" scanner (meaning that I don;t scan negatives with it). It is a great printer/scanner combo. It has been replaced by the CX6600.