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Looking to upgrade my Scanner

Pat Whatley

New Member
I'm sure I'm gonna catch it for this but here goes....

I've got an Epson Perfection V30 Flatbed Scanner ($60) and a Canon Pixma printer/scanner combo ($40) that both outperform the $1200 Canon Art Scanner we bought 8 years ago and the $600 Microtec we replaced it with.
 

Rooster

New Member
I'm sure I'm gonna catch it for this but here goes....

I've got an Epson Perfection V30 Flatbed Scanner ($60) and a Canon Pixma printer/scanner combo ($40) that both outperform the $1200 Canon Art Scanner we bought 8 years ago and the $600 Microtec we replaced it with.

I bought a Canon 8800F ($200) and it does just as good a job on transparencies as my drum scanner ($85,000) ever did. Too bad nobody shoots film anymore. I used to love selling 4x5" scans for $125 a pop.
 

Pat Whatley

New Member
Depends on exactly what you're doing but I'd say almost everything a typical sign shop does can be handled very capably by a $200 scanner, especially since these days most customers can provide digital artwork more easilly than hard copies anyway.
 
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