Scanners?

[Sergio]

Scanning.
Hi everyone,

Hope you all are well.

I had this in the Beginners section, but no replies. Can anyone help me? Thanks.

Question: I need to buy a new "all-in-one" brother printer for my home office. Will the scanner that comes with it be good enough to scan in old pictures to work on?

Here is the info on the "all in one" that I'm thinking about buying.


MFC-7340
Est. Street Price:$199.99*
Where To Buy
Product Details
Laser Multi-Function Center®
Up to 21ppm print and copy speeds
Up to 2400 x 600 dpi laser printing
35-page capacity auto document feeder for multi-page documents
250-sheet capacity letter/legal paper tray
14.4K bps modem with storage up to 500 pages‡
Flatbed color scanning - up to 19200 x 19200 dpi (interpolated) resolution
PC-free copying and faxing
USB interface‡

Thank you for your time.

Tim/Sergio :-)

[Bob Chadwick]

The review at PCWorld (http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/review/printers_scanners/brother/mfc-7340/254004) was not good, particularly as it relates to scanning.

Image and document scanning is also fairly fast, but quality isn't fantastic. Images scanned with the MFC-7340 are darker than their originals, sacrificing detail in darker images. This was also the case with graphics and text scanning, causing text to become slightly muddy and colours to deviate in accuracy from originals.

[Sergio]

Wow! Thank you, Bob.

That's what I wanted to know. I guess I'm better off going with two machines. I'll do the all in one(not this one), and look for a flat bed scanner. I do want a very good scanner. All of our wedding pictures are fading away in color.:(

We need to scan them in, like yesterday!

If you know of a good scanner, please let me know. I'll start doing some home work.

Thanks again.

Tim

[Bob Chadwick]

I've got the Epson V500 and am extremely happy with it, though I think it has been replaced with a new model. Here's a couple of examples taken with the scanner at different settings.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bob_chadwick/3652083207/sizes/o/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bob_chadwick/3652884500/sizes/o/