Scanners, need your input Canon or

[Valkyrien]

I'd take Canon over Epson any day of the week.

[Maven]

I would disagree.

Epson is the best for Printers and Scanners. If you want to buy something from Canon buy a camera.

[Matt]

The Epson Perfection series of scanners is the best for consumers.

Make sure you pick up the backlit adaptor for it (if it doesn't come with one.) I don't recommend them for scanning negatives without it, because the regular backlight that is used for scanning negatives is tied into a proprietary TWAIN program that has to 'recognize' that there is a picture there, or it won't give you the picture...

Let me explain...

I'd try to scan in a slide, and 99% scan in just fine, and it's actually pretty high quality but... Then a few that are dark or bright or whatever don't get picked up by the software, even in advanced mode.

With the full size backlight, you can just scan the whole scanning surface for anything and your negatives will show up.

Also, that TWAIN software looks for a specific size of negative, so if you have any old large film, or anything that's a funky size, it won't do it.

If you want to scan negatives, it's best to get a negative/slide scanner but they are expensive.

[Valkyrien]

Epson is the best for Printers and Scanners.
*COUGH*hp*COUGH*

i had my old epson printer for less than a year before it completely ****ed itself up. I've had my HP for 2 years now with no problems at all;)

[creative destructions]

*COUGH*hp*COUGH*

i had my old epson printer for less than a year before it completely ****ed itself up. I've had my HP for 2 years now with no problems at all;)
I have had the exact same experience as the SpacePope.

[Maven]

Well it just comes down to user experiences because I've had my Epson Perfection for over 3 years now...and I use it a lot...at leats once a day and sometimes I'm scaning crap all day...(its my work scanner). I have really worked this scanner hard and I still haven't replaced the lamp...but when that fateful day comes I will be buying another Epson without even looking at another product from another company. Just my opinion of course.:thumbsup:

[creative destructions]

My experience is, never buy a printer where the printhead is mounted on the printer itself, because that's the part where it tends to break the most often.

[MadMax]

Personally I have just the opposite experience with HP vs Epson. HP crap seems to break down if you look at it wrong.

Alternatively I still have a 12 year old Epson ES-800c scanner that I paid 1k for back when it was new that I still use today. And it gets a lot of use.

Epson quit providing drivers for it beyond windows NT 4.0, so now it resides on a Linux box. I have certainly gotten my money's worth out of it.

Between Canon and Epson, get the perfection scanner. The Canon are ok, but they are a pretty low end scanner.

[the_russian]

Take the Canon, I've had my n656 for 4 years and it works perfectly and has spectacular image quality. Also, that Epson printers are better than Canons is hogwash, I had an Epson printer for about 7 months, first the problems came when instead of printing, it started to smear ink all over the paper, then the thing broke completely. Finally, got a Canon printer, and for the last 5 months it has been working perfectly and is great on ink, unlike that Epson.

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