Epsom or Canon Scanner, advice please (1 Viewer)

Stewart J.

Well-known member

• Aug 7, 2005

• #1

Yo all,

Finally going to purchase a scanner and had made my mind up on a Canoscan 8400F, excellent reviews for scanning trannies. Pixmania seem to have best deal at £124.00. On same site they are selling the Epsom Perfection 4180 Photo for £140.58 which has left me uncertain? Epsom has slightly better resolution, so thought I'd put it to all you guys for comment.

Stewart

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Leif

Well-known member

• Aug 7, 2005

• #2

Stewart J. said:

Yo all,

Finally going to purchase a scanner and had made my mind up on a Canoscan 8400F, excellent reviews for scanning trannies. Pixmania seem to have best deal at £124.00. On same site they are selling the Epsom Perfection 4180 Photo for £140.58 which has left me uncertain? Epsom has slightly better resolution, so thought I'd put it to all you guys for comment.

Stewart

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Try www.photo-i.co.uk for reviews. Leif

 

Stewart J.

Well-known member

• Aug 7, 2005

• #3

Leif said:

Try www.photo-i.co.uk for reviews. Leif

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Cheers for that Leif

Stewart

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stuartlawrie

Well-known member

• Sep 27, 2005

• #4

Personally I would go for the Epson. Two reasons, firstly I've got one, (Biased I know!) Secondly a friend has a canon and we have recently been using a colour management system which requires that you turn off any colour management in the scanner dialog, we cant seem to find a way to do this with the canon, nor how to use a created profile for it. This was such a pain my friend went out and bought a top of the range Epson (4990) A4 scanner.

 

RAH

Well-known member

• Sep 27, 2005

• #5

I also recommend Epson. I've always had good luck with them. I have never had a Canon, but I do want to warn you about HP scanners - don't buy one! (IMHO). One aspect of scanners no one ever talks about is the driver software that makes them work. Epson driver software is very good. We have a HP scanner where I work. The hardware is very nice, but the driver software is TERRIBLE. And if you're thinking, "Well, I have PhotoShop, so it won't matter," this is incorrect. The driver software is your interface to the hardware and can make a huge difference. So, at least there, I can vouch for Epson as being very good (and the hardware is excellent too, of course).

 

Geoff Brown

Well-known member

• Sep 27, 2005

• #6

I can't vouch for Epson scanners as I have never used one. But my Epson printer always caused grief until I changed it for a Canon printer eighteen months ago which has not caused any problems so far. Because of this I also subsequently bought a Canon scanner and have not had any problems with that either.

 

Gramayr

Slightly barking..

• Sep 27, 2005

• #7

I've got an Epson 2450 photo, I can heartily recomend them, also used them at college when I did a photography degree - so if they use them thats another recomendation.
The Epson 'smart panel' is a doddle to use as well.

 

Stewart J.

Well-known member

• Oct 1, 2005

• #8

Thanks for the advice all, leaning toward Epsom. Sorry couldn't reply sooner just back this evening from a birding hol in Bulgaria.

Stewart

 

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Enilette

New member

• Nov 3, 2005

• #9

I am thinking of buying an epsom stylus photo R300, not because I want to print photos but simply becasue I want to be able to print A2 size from my computer because I want to print my family tree which is too large for A4. Does anyone know if I can print from "Family Tree Maker" or "FT Tmes"?.

 

RAH

Well-known member

• Nov 3, 2005

• #10

The EpsoN R300 printer does not print A2 sized paper. Here is what the specs say:
"Paper Sizes
* 4" x 6", 5" x 7", 8" x 10" Letter, legal, A4, B5, A5, A6, half letter, executive, Panoramic 8.3" x 23.4", user definable (3.5" to 44" in length);"

In other words, it is a standard 8.5x11 inch paper printer.