Anyone suggest a good printer/scanner?

[leothetiler]

I have been considering trying to get all my old photos scanned onto my pc rather than just leaving them for ever gathering dust in the cupboard.

I have never had a scanner, and really just wanted to know is a quick process to scan an image onto the pc, and whether anyone has any suggestions as to a good model to buy?

Looking to spend in the region of £100. Thanks

[3200gt]

Hi scanning is simple. Dont get an HP all in one. I had a HP PSC 950 andit needed replacing 3 times because the scanner kept packing up. Give them their due they did replace it, but a major PIA to keep going back to retailer.
I replaced it with a Epson stylus RX685 and have had zero problems with it (2 years). With it you can save your scanned images in loads of formats but the only down side is can work quite costly on replacement inks if you plan to do a lot of printing as each colour is seperate and you need 6 cartridges. That said the print quality is excelent.

[Arese]

You can get cheap flatbed scanners, where you'd need to place each photo on the platen and scan the individually. Or you might be able to get one that has a document feeder so you can just pop all the photographs in at once.

I have a Canon flatbed that I'll be putting on Ebay soon, as I've replaced it with a Canon MFD that does it all.

[Mosman]

Have you considered sending your photos to a Photo Scanning Service?

The link below is not a recommendation (just the first result on Google). With your £100 budget you could have 1000 photos scanned and returned to you on a CD or DVD.

http://www.iphotoscanning.co.uk/shopdisplayproduct...

Certainly a lot less time consuming than doing it yourself, the downside of course is you don't end up with a scanner/printer to use afterwards.

[Tallbut Buxomly]

Brother all in one will work ok certainly better than anyhp all in one. Hp are best for laser. Brother or epson will be better made and more durable.

Make sure if you get an all in one which has a scanner system much like a fax where rather than the scanner running back and forth it runs the documents across the scanner instead.

[Stealth997]

leothetiler said:

I have been considering trying to get all my old photos scanned onto my pc rather than just leaving them for ever gathering dust in the cupboard.

I have never had a scanner, and really just wanted to know is a quick process to scan an image onto the pc, and whether anyone has any suggestions as to a good model to buy?

Looking to spend in the region of £100. Thanks

I've just done the same thing. We had hundreds of old photos, negatives and slides. I thought I could get away with my all-in-one HP scanner but I really wasnt that happy with the quality or the speed.

In the end I opted for the Canon 8800F. It's fast and more importantly for me, allows you to load up multiple negatives and slides in a magazine / cartridge. This means you can scan multiple shots in one.

It's got some intelligent auto correcting too that's worked very well so far. The picture scans are excellent but this scanner really excels when scanning negatives and slides.

It's over your budget at £150 but the time it will save you will be worth it.