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I've used this printer to scan all of my old pictures and it always does a great job.
It's good stuff. What better than a five star rating, unless yuo're lonely and need to type to someone. That's enough. Althought I think it is completely ridiculas to have to write all of this for ebay, after I already rated this 4 stars. Ebay makes this way too time consuming.
I have been very happy with this unit. The only cons are it's slow scanning speed and it's rather quirky software. I bought this scanner some years ago. I have used it a lot for scanning slides. But for the price you are getting more than your monies worth. I have never had any problem with it. It scans well and as a bonus it also scans slides plus negatives.
The software has now completey failed and I have to use a microsoft product to get it to work, and most of the time the scanner will not come on. I have had this scanner for a little over a year. I often have to jiggle cords and unplug things and mess around for an hour just to scan something. It is very tempremental. It has never made good copies/scans from a negative. I often have to rescan things.
This scanner was never much faster than my Agfa and the quality is on much, much lower. I used an Agfa SnapScan 1212u for almost 8 years without a problem. It took me a while to figure out that the scanner was making the shrieking sound. Terrible. I've had many scanners and never encountered anything like this before. I got this unit about two months ago.
This HP product is very attractive and well priced, but what does that mean if a piece of hardware is poor. I "upgraded" because I wanted a faster (USB-2 as opposed to USB-1) scanner, and a unit that had slide and film transfer capabilites. As other users have indicated with their units, my scanner has begun making a shrieking sound which is quite unbearable. Reading reviews here and elsewere has actually confirmed my suspicions that this is some type of design defect. I would advise anyone reading this to buy another product. The unit never scanned very well, and now it barely scans at all.
I thought my computer was dying.
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