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[AVERY]

hi every one
i am looking to get a new scanner,ive looked at hp5300 &
cannon s600 , could use some advice

[bailey]

I would suggest that you sve yourself a lot of money and get a Mustek UB from wal-mart for $59.00. been useing one over two years now and does a great job on photos and everything else.

[Kubie]

Avery, seems I just read about scanners somewhere here, but it seems that it isn't the brand of scanner but the software you use. I have a UMAX 2000p and it works great; even with the software that came with it.
Software quality can make or break it.
Carl

[AVERY]

hi carl
its strange that you would say that,the reason being
its the very thing a friend is telling me , maybe i should
listen and pay attention to the software i am getting,i welcome all the imput i can get, maybe i will learn in the process
thanks

[glc]

You can't beat an HP for ease of use and quality. Their scanner driver is the most user friendly out there. Agreed on the software - until you get into high end scanners, the software they all come with is pretty basic. Just stick with USB or SCSI - parallel port scanners are dog slow and tie up the port.

[mairving]

It really just depends on why you want a scanner. I just bought an Astra 6400 Firewire scanner. It is quite fast but a bit more expensive than some of it's USB cousins. I do quite a bit of scanning so speed and image quality are essential. Software is a big part of what you pay for in a scanner. My last scanner was a Microtek SCSI scanner. It came with a full version of Photoshop 5.0. The scanner cost $300 but if I had to buy Photoshop, it would have cost me $600. Go figure.

You don't say what OS you are using. Windows 2000 can be more picky about scanners than Windows 98. I couldn't get my Firewire scanner to work at all in Windows 2000. I think because I installed the scanner first and not the software. After an unrelated format and re-install, it works perfectly.

[AVERY]

hi mairving
i,m using win me os, the 30 bit acer i am using is very slow
and pictures i do are poor, i do not do alot of photos
it is connected parallel

[mairving]

Originally posted by AVERY it is connected parallel

Ouch that's gotta hurt. I think that parallel scanners were one of the worst things ever invented. Of course, they were before USB so your only other choice was a SCSI scanner. You should be able to find a good USB one in a UMAX or HP or Astra in the $59-89 range. Check here at PriceGrabber for your best deals.