What scanner is like my old Epson 1250?

[Johno]

WHAT I'M SEEKING

I'm in the UK. I want to buy a very basic scanner for a friend here
so he can make photcopies of documents/diagrams, send scans by email,
etc.

The source documents will be mainly mono rather than colour. His
printer is a mono desktop laser.



WHAT I HAVE GOT

I already use an old Epson scanner. It's not that great but it's
good enough. What would I have to spend today to get something of a
similar (or better) quality?

My scanner is an Epson Perfection 1250 (very similar to the 1650).
This was launched in mid-2001 with a price tag of 130 US dollars.

An Epson marketing brochure for the scanner and also another document
with more detailed specs are here:

(1) marketing http://files.support.epson.com/pdf/pr125_/pr125_sl.pdf
(2) detailed http://files.support.epson.com/pdf/pr125_/pr125_pg.pdf


WHAT I HAVE SEEN

HP's cheapest is the Scanjet 2400 at £40
http://tinyurl.com/35ojqd

Canon's entry scanner is CanoScan LiDE 25 Scanner at £45
Canon Canoscan Lide 70 USB scanner at £50
http://tinyurl.com/3x9w2c

 

[Allodoxaphobia]

I'm in the UK. I want to buy a very basic scanner for a friend here
so he can make photcopies of documents/diagrams, send scans by email,
etc.
I already use an old Epson scanner. It's not that great but it's
good enough.
My scanner is an Epson Perfection 1250 (very similar to the 1650).
This was launched in mid-2001 with a price tag of 130 US dollars.

What would I have to spend today to get something of a
similar (or better) quality?

How about an Epson Perfection 1250 for $10 USD? I bought my Epson
Perfection 1250 several months ago in a second-hand store for that.
Works just fine for the stuff I need to get up onto web pages.

Seriously. In most second-hand stores I trawl through, I see _mounds_
of decent looking scanners. My educated guess is that I am seeing the
We-don't-need-it-It's-just-in-the-way discards from the purchase of a PC
package, or I am seeing the discards of folks that absolutely have to
have the latest-and-greatest techno-clap-trap for their system.

gl
Jonesy

 

[DCA]

WHAT I'M SEEKING

I'm in the UK. I want to buy a very basic scanner for a friend here
so he can make photcopies of documents/diagrams, send scans by email,
etc.

The source documents will be mainly mono rather than colour. His
printer is a mono desktop laser.



WHAT I HAVE GOT

I already use an old Epson scanner. It's not that great but it's
good enough. What would I have to spend today to get something of a
similar (or better) quality?

My scanner is an Epson Perfection 1250 (very similar to the 1650).
This was launched in mid-2001 with a price tag of 130 US dollars.

An Epson marketing brochure for the scanner and also another document
with more detailed specs are here:

(1) marketing http://files.support.epson.com/pdf/pr125_/pr125_sl.pdf
(2) detailed http://files.support.epson.com/pdf/pr125_/pr125_pg.pdf


WHAT I HAVE SEEN

HP's cheapest is the Scanjet 2400 at £40
http://tinyurl.com/35ojqd

Canon's entry scanner is CanoScan LiDE 25 Scanner at £45
Canon Canoscan Lide 70 USB scanner at £50
http://tinyurl.com/3x9w2c

I had one of those
I chopped it in against one of Canon's MP500 all-in-one printers.
The scanner is just as good!