What scanner is like my old Epson 1250?

WHAT I'M SEEKING

I'm in the UK. I want to buy a very basic scanner for a friend here
so he can make photcopies of documents/diagrams, send scans by email,
etc.

The source documents will be mainly mono rather than colour. His
printer is a mono desktop laser.



WHAT I HAVE GOT

I already use an old Epson scanner. It's not that great but it's
good enough. What would I have to spend today to get something of a
similar (or better) quality?

My scanner is an Epson Perfection 1250 (very similar to the 1650).
This was launched in mid-2001 with a price tag of 130 US dollars.

An Epson marketing brochure for the scanner and also another document
with more detailed specs are here:

(1) marketing http://files.support.epson.com/pdf/pr125_/pr125_sl.pdf
(2) detailed http://files.support.epson.com/pdf/pr125_/pr125_pg.pdf


WHAT I HAVE SEEN

HP's cheapest is the Scanjet 2400 at £40
http://tinyurl.com/35ojqd

Canon's entry scanner is CanoScan LiDE 25 Scanner at £45
Canon Canoscan Lide 70 USB scanner at £50
http://tinyurl.com/3x9w2c

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:55:48 +0100, Johno wrote:
>
> I'm in the UK. I want to buy a very basic scanner for a friend here
> so he can make photcopies of documents/diagrams, send scans by email,
> etc.
> I already use an old Epson scanner. It's not that great but it's
> good enough.
> My scanner is an Epson Perfection 1250 (very similar to the 1650).
> This was launched in mid-2001 with a price tag of 130 US dollars.
>
> What would I have to spend today to get something of a
> similar (or better) quality?

How about an Epson Perfection 1250 for $10 USD? I bought my Epson
Perfection 1250 several months ago in a second-hand store for that.
Works just fine for the stuff I need to get up onto web pages.

Seriously. In most second-hand stores I trawl through, I see _mounds_
of decent looking scanners. My educated guess is that I am seeing the
We-don't-need-it-It's-just-in-the-way discards from the purchase of a PC
package, or I am seeing the discards of folks that absolutely have to
have the latest-and-greatest techno-clap-trap for their system.

gl
Jonesy
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Johno wrote:
> WHAT I'M SEEKING
>
> I'm in the UK. I want to buy a very basic scanner for a friend here
> so he can make photcopies of documents/diagrams, send scans by email,
> etc.
>
> The source documents will be mainly mono rather than colour. His
> printer is a mono desktop laser.
>
>
>
> WHAT I HAVE GOT
>
> I already use an old Epson scanner. It's not that great but it's
> good enough. What would I have to spend today to get something of a
> similar (or better) quality?
>
> My scanner is an Epson Perfection 1250 (very similar to the 1650).
> This was launched in mid-2001 with a price tag of 130 US dollars.
>
> An Epson marketing brochure for the scanner and also another document
> with more detailed specs are here:
>
> (1) marketing http://files.support.epson.com/pdf/pr125_/pr125_sl.pdf
> (2) detailed http://files.support.epson.com/pdf/pr125_/pr125_pg.pdf
>
>
> WHAT I HAVE SEEN
>
> HP's cheapest is the Scanjet 2400 at £40
> http://tinyurl.com/35ojqd
>
> Canon's entry scanner is CanoScan LiDE 25 Scanner at £45
> Canon Canoscan Lide 70 USB scanner at £50
> http://tinyurl.com/3x9w2c
>
>
I had one of those
I chopped it in against one of Canon's MP500 all-in-one printers.
The scanner is just as good!