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    From amiga500@adsr@amiga.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Friday, July 25, 2003 18:09:41
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    I want to buy an inexpensive new USB scanner. Can someone recommend
    some that are absolutely reliable under MacOS X? Easy of use and
    reliability are more important than graphic quality.
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  • From Garner Miller@garner@netstreet.net to comp.sys.mac.system on Friday, July 25, 2003 22:12:20
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    In article <250720031809417116%adsr@amiga.com>, amiga500
    <adsr@amiga.com> wrote:

    I want to buy an inexpensive new USB scanner. Can someone recommend
    some that are absolutely reliable under MacOS X? Easy of use and
    reliability are more important than graphic quality.

    I just bought a Canon LIDE 30 and am very happy with it. Easy to use, OSX-compatible (including support for the buttons on the front of the
    scanner), and only has a single USB cable for both the data and for
    powering the scanner. It's not the speediest in the world, but it does
    exactly what I want (occasional photo and document scanning). Only
    cost me $80. Here's CompUSA's product page for it:

    http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product%5Fcode=295713



    Note that the OmniPage SE software (for optical character recognition)
    included is an OS9 program, not native OSX, and doesn't seem to work
    terribly well under Classic. I don't use it, so it's not an issue for
    me, but just FYI.

    --
    Garner R. Miller
    Manchester, CT =USA=
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