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>I'm looking to buy a good color scanner for a Gateway 2000 486.
>I've only used Mac scanners, so I'm not sure what brands the "good PC"
>scanners are.  I've seen lots of ads for MicroTeks, Avec Colours and
>Envisions.  I want a sturdy, reliable, easy-to-use scanner and am
>willing to pay between $600-$800.  Any suggestions?

I have a Mustek Paragon Series flatbed scanner, MFS-6000CX.  I'd
highly recommend it for color pictures (because you can't beat the
price), but not much for text.  It does have Adobe Photoshop 2.5
lite edition.  Although it's supposed to be a bit limited in features,
it's an awesome program.  I don't know what they "limited" -- it's
EXTREMELY powerful.  However, the OCR software (Wordlinx) that
comes with this scanner is terrible.

If you're willing to pay up to $800, I'd suggest that you might
want to go for one of the top-rated scanners, the HP Scanjet IICX.
They are selling it at CompUSA for $759 or something like that,
after a $150 mail-in rebate from HP.  Plus, it comes with Calera
WordScan OCR software.  I don't know what (if any) graphics
editing software it has.

>(Also, are there any newsgroups where scanners are discussed?)

Not that I know of. :)

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