Am I the only one that doesn't scan anymore?
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Not only practical, but aesthetically pleasing in and of it's own right. Actually, in real life, I even had a view-camera for a while, loading with sheet film. And the quality was worth it. They're still around. . . . skip many steps . . . Now, my current favorite is a Kodak Z990 - last camera before the bankruptcy. 30x Schneider zoom - crystal clear throughout the range. Super Macro's my favorite when not stuck doing photos of family and such.
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"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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Very true, but I have seen worse from home scanners
That's no excuse.
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I still scan some things - mostly Herselfs photo collection - and I also use it to copy documents (I like a copy of everything I'm supposed to sign so I can refer back to it later if needed). It's also damn useful if you need a little OCR. Frankly I'm surprised printers have survived this long - I use mine as a printer mostly for personalised birthday / other cards these days.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
Frankly I'm surprised printers have survived this long
My favorite printer is PDF995 Oddly enough, I have some ink cartridges due to arrive, today - the one I've been refilling was out of use so long it's longing to see its ancestors.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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Frankly, I see the all-in-one printer going to the wayside. Unless I have to scan 10 documents together as a group (which is rare), I just snap a photo of the document with my phone and send it email.
A funny story: I have a flatbed scanner in my home office that mostly stays turned off. My wife has one of those 'all-in-ones' with a scanner in her office. When she needs to scan, she will bring whatever documents so that I can scan them and email them to her. Why not use her own...because the last time she tried to use it (years ago) it didn't work, and besides, that would mean having to move all the files/folders stacked on top of it. :| It's just easier if I do it for her! :|
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A funny story: I have a flatbed scanner in my home office that mostly stays turned off. My wife has one of those 'all-in-ones' with a scanner in her office. When she needs to scan, she will bring whatever documents so that I can scan them and email them to her. Why not use her own...because the last time she tried to use it (years ago) it didn't work, and besides, that would mean having to move all the files/folders stacked on top of it. :| It's just easier if I do it for her! :|
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Haha, sadly I understand the situation all too well. Having to scan means uncovering the all-in-one so that I can open it, then unplug all the cords from my laptop (which is difficult to replug back in because the power cord has to be positioned just right so that it charges), move it across the room and plug it in, wait for it to scan, reposition it if the page didn't scan correctly or moved. It's a 10 minute ordeal when I can get just as clear and well positioned document with my camera in half a minute.
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Frankly, I see the all-in-one printer going to the wayside. Unless I have to scan 10 documents together as a group (which is rare), I just snap a photo of the document with my phone and send it email.
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Frankly, I see the all-in-one printer going to the wayside. Unless I have to scan 10 documents together as a group (which is rare), I just snap a photo of the document with my phone and send it email.
I've only ever done that once in my life, and that was because I was away from home, and somehow needed a copy of a sheet of paper that, in turns out, would've been wider/taller than my scanner. Had I had access to a scanner, I still would rather have a document that was scanned from 3-4 positions and then manually stitched back together.
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Frankly, I see the all-in-one printer going to the wayside. Unless I have to scan 10 documents together as a group (which is rare), I just snap a photo of the document with my phone and send it email.
My wife used to physically file all of the bills into different folders when they came in. It was mutually decided that I would take over bills and I wasn't going to file them, so I scan all the documents that come in. For the medical ones, I write the payment details on them before scanning. This makes it easy to retrieve any document I need.
Hogan
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Yeah - you probably are the only one. Sadly, not really. I've received some of those 'documents'. I fact, some of us even have dedicated High Resolution scanners. Also, we own a "Camera" for taking pictures of things. Old school - you know how it is - quality and all that stuff was/is important.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
For those of us who never progressed to the SLR level a phone camera can give better resolution than a lot of cameras, especially if it is a few years old. I dumped my old cannon SLR when my phone did a better job.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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Frankly, I see the all-in-one printer going to the wayside. Unless I have to scan 10 documents together as a group (which is rare), I just snap a photo of the document with my phone and send it email.
Somewhere, I have a handheld Mustek scanner...two passes down the page, then the software puts the two halves together to recreate the page. Usually. ;)
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Frankly, I see the all-in-one printer going to the wayside. Unless I have to scan 10 documents together as a group (which is rare), I just snap a photo of the document with my phone and send it email.
Oddly enough, I used my scanner yesterday as someone gave me a physical copy of a photo. The all-in-one scanner/copier/"empty" cartridge holding device certainly took some excavating - definitely the first time it had been used in a year or so and it will shortly be heading back to semi-dead-kit-corner.
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For those of us who never progressed to the SLR level a phone camera can give better resolution than a lot of cameras, especially if it is a few years old. I dumped my old cannon SLR when my phone did a better job.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Well, don't judge all film photography by Canon.
