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| 16868 | 2001-08-12 01:11:00 | Considering buying either Epson 680, Canon S450 or HP 930c printer. Also Epson Perfection 640, Canon D660U or HP 2200c Scanner.Text and b&w and colour photo's.Review and Consumer info conflicts.Appreciate any advice. | Guest (0) | ||
| 16869 | 2001-08-12 08:03:00 | It would be nice to know the rest of the system specs you have. Operating system... Have you USB ports... etc. I use an AMD Duron 800.. 512 Meg RAM and a 20 Gig Seagate Hard drive. A far as the printer is concerned I use an HP Deskjet 930 and I'm very happy with it. That's connected to LPT1. I also run a Mustek Bearpaw USB scanner. I'm happy with that too. :-) There are horses for courses. For instance. Don't go buying an HP 930 if you need to print on Multipart paper. |
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| 16870 | 2001-08-12 08:24:00 | For the printers, get a dual cartridge. I've used quite a few epsons over the years. One frature to look for on them is ESC/P2, which is epsons way of standardising the drivers. This makes drivers easier to find, esp if you are into the 'alternative' operating systems. Another benefit of this is the printer is less dependent on the OS to do its thinking for it. Of course the others probably have a similar feature. As for the scanners, my only advice is DON'T get a parrallel (printer port) one. They are the scanner equivilent of a WinModem, *sigh*. The SCSI ones are very good and fast, but also expensive so USB will be your best bet. |
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| 16871 | 2001-08-12 23:40:00 | Thanks Tony, your comment was helpful | Guest (0) | ||
| 16872 | 2001-08-12 23:43:00 | Thanks for the advice, much appreciated | Guest (0) | ||
| 16873 | 2001-08-13 20:25:00 | Hello Stu The other thing to consider is the cost of replacing your ink cartridges, for that reason I would recommend the Canon S400, as you can replace the individual colours as they run out, rather than buying a new three colour cartridge every time (HP930 around $90.00)although the HP or the Canon D660U ( also single colour tanks)would be a better bet if you are going to print out mainly photo quality. As far as scanners go there are a lot of very good ones around at bargain prices, My pick would be the Acer 620PT as it does a good job with transparancies and slides at under $300.00 it is parallel port though, this is not really an issue if you run your printer through the USB port, although I agree with one of the other respondents, that you don't really want to run both the printer and scanner through the parallel port. Hope this helps. Alan |
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| 16874 | 2001-08-13 20:57:00 | Can I suggest that you might like to consider a scanner that will also allow you to scan transparencies and or film negatives (reverse transparencies). Canon have produced such an animal for about $450 but I do not know the model. It's advertised in the latest NZ PC World. Bryan. |
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