looking to buy a scanner

angiemd · angiemd #1 (**permalink**)

01-17-2007, 03:44 PM

I'm looking to buy a flatbed scanner for basic scanning - color images from books, etc. but don't know what I need. I have 10.3.9 on my ibook g4. ALso I will be using the images in power point. Any suggestions?

mac57 · mac57 #2 (**permalink**)

01-17-2007, 05:27 PM

Pretty much any $100 Canon, Epson or HP flatbed will give you reasonable results. If you are looking for finely detailed reproduction of photographs, you will need to go higher up the foodchain, but you can get very good results these days with extremely affordable scanners.

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Member Since: Apr 29, 2006 Location: St. Somewhere Posts: 4,556 Mac Specs: iMac 27" 3.4 GHz, 256 GB SSD, 2 TB HDD, 8 GB RAM	01-17-2007, 05:27 PM Pretty much any $100 Canon, Epson or HP flatbed will give you reasonable results. If you are looking for finely detailed reproduction of photographs, you will need to go higher up the foodchain, but you can get very good results these days with extremely affordable scanners. My Macs: iMac 27" 3.4 GHz, Mac Pro 3.2 GHz, PowerMac G5 Quad 2.5 GHz, G4 Cube with 1.2 GHz Upgrade My iStuff: 64GB iPhone 5, 64GB iPad4, 30GB iPod Video, 16GB iPod Touch My OS': Mac OS X Lion, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Mac OS X Tiger, Mac OS 9.2.2, openSUSE 10.3 I was on the Mac-Forums honor roll for September 2007
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Member Since: Jan 17, 2007 Posts: 1	01-17-2007, 03:44 PM I'm looking to buy a flatbed scanner for basic scanning - color images from books, etc. but don't know what I need. I have 10.3.9 on my ibook g4. ALso I will be using the images in power point. Any suggestions?
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