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Well, this weekend, I decided enough was enough, and reformatted my hard drive.

I reinstalled with Windows 2000 as the operating system. After many hours putting programs back onto my hard drive, and having succesfully retained all my old emails, and email addresses, I'm feeling rather pleased with myself (although I'm still adding more and more software).

BUT, and I knew this when I installed Windows 2000, my scanner, which I bought for ?400+ when they first became available in the early 90's is so old, that good old Win 2000 won't recognise it, and Trust (who made the scanner) are no longer creadting drivers for it (although on their website, they indicated that it wouldn't even run on Win98, it worked fine for me for years without any problem).

It was a damn reliable piece of kit, and many of you have reaped it's benefits (via many of the images and online thrills available on this site).

Anyway, short of reformatting my hard disk, and reinstalling Windows 98 again, my only other option would appear to be to purchase a new scanner.

I need quality (high resolution), reliability, (quietness), speed, and a decent price. The old beauty, used to scan at A4, a larger scanner would be useful, but not necessary (anyone have one?). So, any recommendations?

Cheers

You could try a parrallel install of windows if you have a large enuff HDD......  Basically you install 98 as well as 2000, they install in a different directory you choose what version you need at startup....

But I cant remember if you need to install win98 first?!?!?  Try a search on Google for this....

Yer "not too helpful" Slippo  

I'm pretty new to the technology, but I got a Canoscan 1240u for about ?150-00 a year ago when I bought my setup, and it's been perfect. I've scanned all my b/w art on it, it's a really small slimline piece of kit... I've been nothing but happy with it.

I've seen ad's with them available for half I paid for it, so I can recommend it if it's any help.

Jock

Oh, and Frazer bought one after I got it too...  if you're kicking about Fraze- any thoughts on it?
J

I recently bought a Canon Lide 30 scanner, much higher resolution than most scanners on the market in the ?70 - ?80 range.

Nice crisp scans and it runs off the your PC for it's power supply.


Ed

Jock, that looks pretty much the same as my scanner there.

Ed

Jock: You mention b/w scans, but does it do colour too? What's the scanning resolution?

Slips: Heh, yesterday, I did exactly what you said, by accident, installed Win 2000 into a separate area, and was allowed to choose between starting up in Win 98 or Win 2000. But I thought I made an error, so reformatted again (3hrs later) so I only had Win 2000.... and now I don't seem to be able to reinstall Win 98 (which was the cheap solution to my problem).

Bugger!

It's a corking scanner. Great b/w, good colour, drivers aplenty and it's efficient. for the price it's a fucking bargain, and it's way better than my previous scanner which cost 3 times the amount and needed it's own power supply.

i strongly recommend it as a quality peice of kit.


F

Been to Canon's website, and looked at their scanners, but can't seem to find that particular one.
What's the dpi?
and more importantly is it still available in the shops?
Cheers
Daney

http://www.canon-europa.com/CEPF_DB/parser.pl?page=products&product=1023&prodtype=26&subprodtype=27&range=

bah! what a crappy link!! it's too long....

maybe just:
http://www.canon-europa.com/products/products.html

and then look for:
   
   
"The CanoScan N1240U redefines the 1200 dpi class for digital imaging. This sleek-looking scanner delivers an outstanding 48-bit colour depth via Canon's unique LIDE sensor, and offers powerful auto-enhancement and image correction using the latest software. Refined engineering has produced the most versatile, stylish and competitive scanner in this class ? stunning results using simple one-touch buttons."

this is the one i got. pretty much the twin of the one jock has.

F

Worth checking out, really crisp scans at 1200 x 2400 dpi, a steal at ?73 online price.


Ed

Link: Canon Lide 30

Out of curiosity, are scanners (in general) capable of picking up pencil tone on paper. By this I mean with sufficient quality to allow a sort of grayscale shading to take place?

It would be nice.

rotts

"The old beauty, used to scan at A4, a larger scanner would be useful, but not necessary"

I think you'll find the price-jump to a larger scanner prohibitive - it's one of those areas, like A4 and larger graphics tablets, where you're automatically assumed to be a graphics pro, design studio or repro house and can pay accordingly ... :-(

Cheers

Jim