On Mon, September 5, 2011 5:00 pm, Jon Jermey wrote: > My question is this: given that my printer cost $79, and a dedicated > sheet-feed scanner costs $400 and up, am I going to get a better success > rate if I purchase one of those rather than just buying a new cheap > printer? The price difference leads me to believe I will, but I can't find > any comparisons on the web between scanning success rates for > multifunction printers and dedicated scanners. Is there any difference in > the actual mechanics, and if so what?
Jon, not sure how much I can help you, but, FWIW, many, many years ago I bought a HP 2p (mono scanner), I think it was about... $1000 ? then, I bought a HP doc feeder, I think it was also around $1000. I still use them today, not that I am a huge scanner user, but, with the 'expensive' feeder I can shove 25 or 30 pages, when I come back, just flip over (if need scanning reverses), it just works a year or two ago, I was walking past a second hand PC shop, saw same HP2p+ doc in the window for about $100, so I bought it for a spare. so, for many pages scanning, good doc feeders are important of course, equipment the age of mine might just crumble from old age (just noticed rubber legs on my HP LJ5 are melting..) additionally, a while ago I picked from a dumped Fujitsu fi4120, brilliant little addition, color, does both sides at once, again, it's good quality device so, my suggestion (based on old and potentially superseded experience: if you find you good results (no jams, scan quality, skew) from cheap device, keep use it; otherwise get device with dedicated good quality feeder I don't know what the Fujitsu FIs go for, but I'm very pleased with my FI simultaneous 2 side scanner (except you cant' do small things or books, pages only) sorry if I added to confusion.. -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
