Tracy R Reed wrote:
Gus Wirth wrote:
Do you absolutely need color? If not, then you are actually better off
using a laserjet printer. The long term cost of materials is actually
I too will be needing a printer/scanner in the near future and have been
pondering the same things. I do like the idea of laserjet over inkjet
for the reasons you mention. But I also need a scanner. Preferably
networkable with a sheet feeder and ability to email the files so that
no special drivers or cables are needed. I am so sick of dealing with
fax when pretty much all of the people I deal with these days can do
email also. There are several interesting models out there for a few
hundred dollars.
Any scanner connected to a networked PC that uses sane is networked.
xsane and sane work as a true client/server model. Info at
<http://www.xsane.org/> There are xsane clients for MS Windows and OS/2.
There is probably one for Mac as well but I didn't see it on the
official site.
If this is for a business environment where you just want someone to
drop a pile of papers in a hopper and then have them scanned and
e-mailed, HP makes a series of both stand-alone and networked scanners
that can do that. Works almost like a fax machine except you type an
e-mail address instead of a phone number.
If you need to scan a lot of documents, beware of the low end automatic
document feeders. They jam easily and will mangle your pages. Handling
arbitrary pieces of paper is actually very difficult.
Gus
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