Price of equivalent scanner

I am in the UK. And want to get a scanner for a friend.

I have an old Epson Perfection 1250 scanner bought from 2001. It's a
junior version of the old Epson 1650 and it cost about 60% of a 1650.

I get the impression that the sensors on my 1250 were considered
relatively good for the year it came out.

Is the Epson Perfection 3490 or the Canoscan Lide 60 the same sort of
*quality* (not just resoultion) as my old Epson 1250?

What sort of price bracket today would a similar scanner to my 1250
be in?



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On the 1250 I have True 1200 x 2400dpi dpi. 48-bit colour scanning
(24-bit output). CCD.

The 1650 had True 1600 x 3200 dpi and 48-bit colour scanning. Built
in "Hyper Processor" makes it faster.

Official UK price for mine was about 90 pounds ($90) in 2001. The
1650 was about 170 pounds ($170).

http://www.epson.co.uk/news_events/...ease/sept01.htm
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"Don W" <mail@mail.invalid> wrote in message
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>I am in the UK. And want to get a scanner for a friend.
>
> I have an old Epson Perfection 1250 scanner bought from 2001. It's a
> junior version of the old Epson 1650 and it cost about 60% of a 1650.
>
> I get the impression that the sensors on my 1250 were considered
> relatively good for the year it came out.
>
> Is the Epson Perfection 3490 or the Canoscan Lide 60 the same sort of
> *quality* (not just resoultion) as my old Epson 1250?
>
> What sort of price bracket today would a similar scanner to my 1250
> be in?
>
>
>
> --------------- START OF OVERVIEW SPEC -------------
> On the 1250 I have True 1200 x 2400dpi dpi. 48-bit colour scanning
> (24-bit output). CCD.
>
> The 1650 had True 1600 x 3200 dpi and 48-bit colour scanning. Built
> in "Hyper Processor" makes it faster.
>
> Official UK price for mine was about 90 pounds ($90) in 2001. The
> 1650 was about 170 pounds ($170).
>
Scanners have advanced like other products and got cheaper over the years.
You can pick up a really good one for £25 now, but one with loads of
features and more advanced software for £35-40. It depends what you want it
for. Any computer shop will have them and as you know what specification
you're looking for it will be easier.
Try www.aria.co.uk

I think my Canon Lide 50 is marvellous. Lots of software came with it too,
including PhotoShop Elements.

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PH, London
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"Don W" <mail@mail.invalid> wrote in message
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>I am in the UK. And want to get a scanner for a friend.
>
> I have an old Epson Perfection 1250 scanner bought from 2001. It's a
> junior version of the old Epson 1650 and it cost about 60% of a 1650.
>
> I get the impression that the sensors on my 1250 were considered
> relatively good for the year it came out.
>
> Is the Epson Perfection 3490 or the Canoscan Lide 60 the same sort of
> *quality* (not just resoultion) as my old Epson 1250?
>
> What sort of price bracket today would a similar scanner to my 1250
> be in?
>
>
>
> --------------- START OF OVERVIEW SPEC -------------
> On the 1250 I have True 1200 x 2400dpi dpi. 48-bit colour scanning
> (24-bit output). CCD.
>
> The 1650 had True 1600 x 3200 dpi and 48-bit colour scanning. Built
> in "Hyper Processor" makes it faster.
>
> Official UK price for mine was about 90 pounds ($90) in 2001. The
> 1650 was about 170 pounds ($170).
>
> http://www.epson.co.uk/news_events/...ease/sept01.htm
> --------------- END OF OVERVIEW SPEC --------------
>

"Don W" <mail@mail.invalid> wrote in message
news:Xns97D27594A26DE74C1H4@127.0.0.1...
>I am in the UK. And want to get a scanner for a friend.
>
> I have an old Epson Perfection 1250 scanner bought from 2001. It's a
> junior version of the old Epson 1650 and it cost about 60% of a 1650.
>
> I get the impression that the sensors on my 1250 were considered
> relatively good for the year it came out.
>
> Is the Epson Perfection 3490 or the Canoscan Lide 60 the same sort of
> *quality* (not just resoultion) as my old Epson 1250?
>
> What sort of price bracket today would a similar scanner to my 1250
> be in?
>
>
>
> --------------- START OF OVERVIEW SPEC -------------
> On the 1250 I have True 1200 x 2400dpi dpi. 48-bit colour scanning
> (24-bit output). CCD.
>
> The 1650 had True 1600 x 3200 dpi and 48-bit colour scanning. Built
> in "Hyper Processor" makes it faster.
>
> Official UK price for mine was about 90 pounds ($90) in 2001. The
> 1650 was about 170 pounds ($170).
>
> http://www.epson.co.uk/news_events/...ease/sept01.htm
> --------------- END OF OVERVIEW SPEC --------------
>
Prices have gone down. You can get more scanner for the same money now.

You can research the Epson scanners and the current prices.
http://www.epson.co.uk/

--
CSM1
http://www.carlmcmillan.com
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"Don W" emitted :

>I am in the UK. And want to get a scanner for a friend.
>
>I have an old Epson Perfection 1250 scanner bought from 2001. It's a
>junior version of the old Epson 1650 and it cost about 60% of a 1650.
>
>I get the impression that the sensors on my 1250 were considered
>relatively good for the year it came out.
>
>Is the Epson Perfection 3490 or the Canoscan Lide 60 the same sort of
>*quality* (not just resoultion) as my old Epson 1250?
>
>What sort of price bracket today would a similar scanner to my 1250
>be in?

Lide scanners use "LED Indirect Exposure" technology - they're great
for documents but have a very slim depth of field - anything more than
a couple of mm off the surface will appear blurred. You might consider
a CCD scanner.. slightly bulkier but able to capture three dimensional
objects also.


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S i g n a l @ l i n e o n e . n e t

Signal wrote:

> S i g n a l @ l i n e o n e . n e t

Is lineone due to disappear anytime soon? When I took it on, it was run
by Sainsbury, then I think it got bought out by Tiscali. I have no idea
who owns it now, or what its future is.

Reason I ask, I have an old line one account that I still pick up mail
from (it's the one I posted on sites, when I was very active in tracing
my family tree)

Dave
ps sorry for the cross post, but I have no idea which ng the op was using.

Dave wrote:
>
> ps sorry for the cross post, but I have no idea which ng the op was using.

That's nothing, I had no idea Lineone made scanners. How's that for
lame?

Philip Herlihy wrote:
> I think my Canon Lide 50 is marvellous. Lots of software came with it too,
> including PhotoShop Elements.

I went out to get an LiDE 20, ended up with a LiDE 25, which did not (at the
time) work with my linux box (although, after much hacking around with
sane-backends, I got some movement out of it, and actually got a reasonable scan
out of it, just in time for the sane developers to actually release a far better
back end which works extremely well).

The LiDE series use alternating red-green-blue LED's to achieve full-colour
scans. If you can see the scanning head while it is running, and move your eyes
about, the resulting colour flicker is quite psychedelic!
This works quite well, but the optical tech used does not focus anywhere other
than the top surface of the glass. Anything off the glass will be poorly
focused, if it is visible at all. Other scanners provide better coverage
off-glass. If all you are doing is photographs or flat documents, this will not
be a problem.

The LiDE scanners (at least the 20/25/30) are all bus powered, meaning no
additional power supply required (although if you are running them off a USB
hub, you should probably use a powered hub, or run them direct off the motherboard)

As to 'lots of software', I too can attest to that, but I have no idea what it's
like, as I do not have anything to run it on...

The Lineone domain is currently managed by Tiscali. I'd guess they would
have no reason to go through the grief of switching it off (and annoying
countless of their customers) and have made no noises about selling it to my
knowledge.

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PH, London
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"Dave" <davenpat@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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>
> Is lineone due to disappear anytime soon? When I took it on, it was run by
> Sainsbury, then I think it got bought out by Tiscali. I have no idea who
> owns it now, or what its future is.

Philip Herlihy wrote:
> The Lineone domain is currently managed by Tiscali. I'd guess they would
> have no reason to go through the grief of switching it off (and annoying
> countless of their customers) and have made no noises about selling it to my
> knowledge.

Many thanks for a sensible answer

Regards

Dave