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go to sleep twinky!
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rongorongo
Sep 10, 2007
These guidelines are so far out of date that the advice will confuse- or scare anyone buying a new scanner in 2007! My advise: a cheap Epson PHOTO scanner from the Epson clearance center is all that an average snapshooter needs to input printed photos or color negatives. Serious photographers should buy an Epson scanner with the highest Dmax affordable. For a "home office" situation where document scanning is necessary get an all-in-one HP. Epson printers are problematic for anyone but the most serious fine art printmakers. Epson scanners are not problematic and the fidelity of even a cheap one leaves all the other manufacturers in the dust! -
Nov 22, 2005
If all you want from a scanner is to zap photos to send onto friends, don't waste money on a high resolution model. Even the inexpensive models scan at a higher resolution than most casual users will ever utilize.
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Nov 22, 2005
The warning not to buy a scanner that has greater resolution than your printer or display device (because the extra money will be wasted) assumes that printers will never get better. This is a very short-sighted approach. I don't want to scan my old photos again when the printer technology improves just because I scanned them at a lower resolution the first time. Also, those old photos will keep fading. They may not be around to scan a second time. Buy the best, highest resolution scanner you can afford.
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Nov 22, 2005
If all you want from a scanner is to zap photos to send onto friends, don't waste money on a high resolution model. Even the inexpensive models scan at a higher resolution than most casual users will ever utilize.
