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Article #30Re: What budget scanner?
From: David J Richardson
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 01:19
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In article <9kr7br$17h$1@spacebar.ucc.usyd.edu.au>, "Gavin Doolan" <gdoolan@gmp.usyd.edu.au> wrote: > Am looking for a budget scanner for email, web uploads and other simple > stuff. Needs to work with Mac and PC, so I guess USB would be best. I guess > my ceiling would be AUS$ 150-200 (US$75-100). Any suggestons would be great, > as I know nothing about scanners. DON'T get a Umax. Their hardware may be OK, but their software and support is below woeful. For example, they just released Vistascan 4.0. It's 130 megs to download. Do so, install and I get 30 megs of actual files (still 20 meg too much considering how little is provided). Worse, it installed version 3.5.2 -- and I already had 3.5.4 from before this! Though at least they seemed to have fixed their FTP servers; they used to the least reliable ones in the world. -- David J Richardson can be found at, well, davidjrichardson@email.com Buffy: You're a vampire. Oh, I'm sorry. Is that an offensive term? Should I say "Undead American"? - 'When She Was Bad' Doctor Who articles and more at http://go.to/davidjrichardson/
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From: David J Richardson <borad@bigpond.net.au>
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