Sep 08, 2001 11:20 AM
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My experience was bad (multi-colored pixels throughout my scanned images). I would have tried another one, but found another scanner more to my liking.
Setting up this scanner was very simple and fast. You take the scanner out of the box and plug in the usb cable. In no time you have scanned your first image.
That's when I started having problems. The first image I scanned was a sunset with the tops of trees at the bottom of the picture. The rest of the picture had great reds and oranges. In the scanned image, there were multi-colored pixels all over the place. So I cleaned the glass and tried it again with the same results.
After that I tried a different picture - a black cat on a tan colored couch. The couch looked ok - but the black coloring of the cat had multi-color pixels in it.
I scanned the image more than once and the multi-colored pixels were never in the same place twice. I thought it might be my other usb devices causing interference so I unplugged the other usb devices.
The scanner was the only usb device plugged into the computer, but I had the same results... multi-colored pixels throughout the image.
After reading the other reviews it seems that I was the one person to buy a bad scanner... I returned the scanner, but didn't get the same kind in return. I found a flat bed scanner (hp 5370c) that had an attachment to scan negatives.
If I hadn't seen the other scanner when I returned this one, I probably would have gotten another Canon to try.
