And I’ll add my two bobs worth.
Several years ago I purchased the Epsom V700 and has worked a treat. It scans everything but is no longer available having been replaced by the V800. Only difference I believe is will only scan 8 slides at a time whereas the V700 would do 12. My understanding is the boffins found the edge slides on the V700 to be less than brilliant and thus reduced the number. Me personally, I cannot tell. I know several people who have got the V800 and are all very happy with it. The biggest draw for me was once the 4000 slides and negatives had been done I was able to use it as a paper scanner.
Brother, oh brother. Inkjet printers, no way. Got rid of it as quick as we could (after learning the hard way) and bought a laser jet. Cannot print colour but manage to survive. (Work or Officeworks)
William
From:tramsdownunder@... [mailto:tramsdownunder@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of C. B.
Sent: Sunday, 15 July 2018 5:40 PM
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Sorry to keep the OT thing going.
In desperation, when my Epson RX620 died, I bought a Brother CDP J105 scanner-printer. It prints black and white text nicely; colour is very poor. Printing of photographs on plain paper is rubbish. If you can find photo paper thin enough that the machine can handle it, it's a washout. When the printed photo comes out of the machine, the ink brushes off the paper, and you are left with an unclean blank piece of paper. Various brands of paper all perform in the same way. Compared with Epson, the scanner is just a joke. I will never buy a Brother product again -- nor will any of my friends or colleagues, if I can help it.
I suspect that the main problem is the Brother ink, but I do not intend to try each brand of ink available, one by one, in the hope if finding something a bit better. If I seem negative, it's because I'm pretty well pissed off and 4290KČ (164 Pounds) poorer. Better pay 400 pounds on a good product than 150 pounds on garbage. One lives and learns (even at my age!!)
Chas
On 15 July 2018 at 08:26, Dudley Horscroft transitconsult@... mailto:transitconsult@ozemail.com.au > wrote:
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 Just checked and found that this model is supposed to be withdrawn, and supplanted by the 140W - which is WiFi enabled, but also reported to be withdrawn.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
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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