I have recently bought the HP PhotoSmart P1000 printer and would like to obtain a scanner to compliment the printer. Being a novice at all of this, I am thoroughly confused about which scanner to choose. I am maily interested in scanning old slides and old black and white photos. At present I am trying out the HP ScanJet 5370C with an attachment for slide scanning. I am told that this is not the best way to go. Any and all advise will be very much appreciated. Thank you, Marina.

-- Marina Hambric (madoal@hotmail.com), July 29, 2000

Answers

There is a discussion of scanners at www.hamrick.com that may be informative. The software he offers there also provides a lot of functionality for film scanners like multipass scanning that the manufacturer's software does not provide.

-- Jonathan Ratzlaff (jonathanr@clrtech.com), July 30, 2000.

I have same printer and looking for film scanner. I have been reviewing different film scanners and end up with canonFS2710 36 bit 2700 dpi, becouse that is a cheapest scanner in that range. but nikon coolsacan LS200 is much better according to expert photographers. I have not recieved the scanner yet, once I recieved the scanner i can tell you the scan quility.

-- Faisal (physal@hotmail.com), July 30, 2000.

If your black-and-white negatives are 35mm and b/w prints are no larger than 5x7, the HP PhotoSmart photo scanner is a good bet. I have the original model and have been quite satisfied with it, but understand the newer S20 is much better. If you need to scan larger negatives, Acer flatbed scanners with transparency capability are reasonably priced and do a good basic job.

-- Stan Munger (shmunger@att.net), August 09, 2000.