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Gavin
From personal experience with the Agfa Snapscan sitting next to me I'd
say DON'T buy that model. It produces terrible results (blue and
blurry).

I have a Umax Vista S6E hooked up to a 7200 via scsi and it produces
much better results. I have seen those little Canon scanners that are
about the size of an A4 page running on windows machines and the results
are very acceptable.

Peter

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.
> TIA,
> Gavin.


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>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.
>TIA,
>Gavin.
>
>

Not a big player, but I like the Acers. (the 600 series). I have the 
SCSI model, but there's a 600dpi USB model. It'll give you probably the 
fastest previews of any consumer scanner on the market. Software is OK 
(ArtScan or MiraScan plus TextBridge for OCR. If you get the PC version, 
you can d/l MiraScan, but not TextBridge. There is a Mac version though. 
About $150-160 generally. The scanners are TWAIN compliant, so you can 
scan direct from Photoshop, Graphic Converter or Acrobat using the 
plug-in.

Cheers,

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I have the Canon 1220 that does a fantastic job with sharp  and fairly quick
scans.

Price is US $169 amd the Canon 650 is US$99.00.  Both do good jobs.
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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.
> >TIA,
> >Gavin.
> >
> >
>
> Not a big player, but I like the Acers. (the 600 series). I have the
> SCSI model, but there's a 600dpi USB model. It'll give you probably the
> fastest previews of any consumer scanner on the market. Software is OK
> (ArtScan or MiraScan plus TextBridge for OCR. If you get the PC version,
> you can d/l MiraScan, but not TextBridge. There is a Mac version though.
> About $150-160 generally. The scanners are TWAIN compliant, so you can
> scan direct from Photoshop, Graphic Converter or Acrobat using the
> plug-in.
>
> Cheers,
>
> RD.
>
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From personal experience, I'd recommend Canon's N series, ie. N650U, N656,
etc. It's those super slim scanners with adjustable top (can scan thicker
documents, not just single sheets). This series should be just abour within
your budget. It's a USB scanner without additional power supply so it draws
power from your Mac through the USB cable although best used with a powered
USB hub (again, personal experience)

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> From: "Gavin Doolan" <gdoolan@gmp.usyd.edu.au>
> Organization: The University of Sydney, Australia
> Newsgroups: alt.comp.periphs.scanner,aus.computers.mac,comp.periphs.scanners
> Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 21:25:39 +1000
> Subject: What budget scanner?
> 
> 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.
> TIA,
> Gavin.
> 
> 

I have a umax S6E which works just great (SCUSI model) but a friend
bought an Agfa and it gives comparable results to the Umax - I would be
happy with either of these.

David

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.

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David J Richardson <borad@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> 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.

I agree wholeheartedly with you about the website and ftp access at
Umax. It has always been bad and nobody seems to be working to improve
it. I spent about 3 hours downloading the 21MB of software for my S6e
the other day, what a pain. 

That's a pity because they seem to make pretty good scanners and the
software that runs them is better than most. The user interface is
ghastly however.

Peter


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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.
> TIA,
> Gavin.
> 
> 


I have the Canon N1220 and its good. The N660 is less than AUD$200 and 
my be just your ticket. Powered off the USB bus too.

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A lot of people seem to be suggesting Canon.

If you think you'll be using Mac OS X sometime, make sure the Canon
scanner you get has a Mac OS X driver. 

I bought a Canon printer in July 2000 and Canon Support have just told me
they aren't likely to be making a Mac OS X driver for it! In other words,
I'll have to buy a whole new printer if I want to print from Mac OS X
apps. Needless to say my new printer won't be a Canon.

Dale


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.
> TIA,
> Gavin.