Let me put in a plug for the Brother DCP-J125 Scanner/Copier/Printer. Cannot remember the cost, but probably not too high,
certainly nowhere near $1000! Bought from Harvey Norman, not known for overcharging though they have several varieties of equipment
available. Just checked and found that this model is supposed to be withdrawn, and supplanted by the 140W - which is WiFi enabled,
but also reported to be withdrawn. May be that was because the blurb I found was from the UK. May be still being sold in
Australia?

Biggest drawback I found was that the colour inkjet cartridges use ink even though printing is in B&W. Seems odd - I think it is to
ensure that the nozzles do not get clogged by dried up ink due to very infrequent use.

Oh, and when there is a paper jam it is the very devil of a job getting the jammed paper out, and the sensor is so sensitive that
the merest speck of paper in the wrong spot means that it interprets it as still being jammed. I found that the best solution to
this mythical paper jam is to turn it off and wait for a bit.

I also have a Hewlett Packard Scanjet 5100C - very rarely used, but IIRC this is the one for scanning text and converting it into
Word documents .doc.

Regards

Dudley Horscroft
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mal Rowe" mal.rowe@...>
To: tramsdownunder@...>
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2018 11:28 AM
Subject: [TramsDownUnder] OT: Scanners, printers and software

> On 12/07/2018 11:15 PM, C. B. wrote:

>>

>> Very useful info. A personal reference is worth a thousand ads!

>>

>> BTW.... is the V700 a printer as well?

>>

> Hi Chas (and whoever else didn't delete this OT message),

>

> The V700 is just a scanner - a good one at semi-professional level.

> I think the current version is the V800 and it's around AUD 1,000!

>

> We have another scanner/printer - the EPSON ET-2500 "Eco Tank" device.

> It's much more expensive than most ink jet printers, but ink costs are relatively tiny as it uses refillable tanks.

> Colour print quality is good if you use coated paper - not photo paper, just a better quality paper at about AUD 8 a ream.

> The ET-2500 does not handle slides or negaives, it just does reflective flatbed scanning.

> Not many shops sell it - I suspect they don't want to jeopardise their profits on ink sales.

>

> While I am so far OT, let me add a plug for the scanner software "VueScan".

> I bought it on the recommendation of Bob Merchant and (like him) am absolutely delighted with it.

>

> My V700 came with Adobe Photoshop Elements 9, but I don't use it, preferring the combination of VueScan for scanning and Paint

> Shop Pro for post scan image processing.

>

> Mal Rowe - keeping the digital imaging industry profitable

>

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