Scanner?

Ice Rich · 29 Aug 2006 at 09:03

Hi all,

Can anyone recommend a good cheap scanner?

Thanks

Admiral Huddy · 29 Aug 2006 at 09:08

Canon CanoScan Lide 25 USB Scanner (SC-017-CA) - £37 inc VAT
I'ts cheap and it's a scanner..

jbloggs · 29 Aug 2006 at 09:10

What about the Epson Perfection 3490?

Ice Rich · 29 Aug 2006 at 17:01

What is the quality like of thoes 2?

Ice Rich · 29 Aug 2006 at 19:19

^Really would appriciate any input guys. In need of a scanner and I aint got a clue what to look for!

Regards,

ray · 29 Aug 2006 at 19:50

Hi there,

The Epson Perfection 3490 is suppose to be quite good. It is on the PC Pro magazine's A-List. This is their review verdict from January 2006: "What more could you want? Superb image quality, amazing speed and a low price mean the 3490 beats all-comers"

I've been using the Epson Perfection 4490 for a couple of months and no problems so far.

Ice Rich · 30 Aug 2006 at 15:26

Ive gone with the 3490, managed to find it new for 55quid deliverd so im pleased

Seems a nice scanner.

Thanks for replys.

Ice Rich · 2 Sep 2006 at 14:08

Just finished setting up the scanner (Epson 3490) and its really great. Really pleased with the image quality.

I only installed the driver (EpsonScan?). Is it worth installing any of the other Epson software - I know there is a few.

Regards,

McNutter · 2 Sep 2006 at 14:52

No except maybe Abbyy FineReader if you want to scan lots of text. It picks out the text from a jpg file so you can copy & paste it into other apps and don't bother scanning at higher than 2400dpi as the file size will be mental.