Canon Canoscan N1240U

Well, at least that is what we cell the customers. The truth be known you get as good a quality image out of this scanner as some of the £500 ones I have seen in my line of work. Thats right, for almost quarter of the price you can be producing the sort of scanned images that professionals use. Whats more Canon have made this scanner simple to use for everyone. Whether you are a techie or a home user, you too can get great results by creating digital from your own paper pics. Lets have a look at the scanner then. Basically it is the size of a regular scanner. Box shape and slightly larger than a sheet of A4 paper. It stands about as high as a ...  Read the complete review

Scanners, you can't live with 'em and you can't live without 'em. Ok so that's not quite true as I'd lived quite happily for 15 years without one but that's not to say I hadn't contemplated buying one before. It's just that they had always been too expensive. That is until I read an article in some computer magazine or other which revealed the price of scanners had plummeted from >£500 to <£100. Couple this with an urgent need to send a copy of a document to a friend and there was my motivation. Surveying my computer desk confirmed what I knew, deep-down, already. I have too much kit. It takes up too much space and uses to ...  Read the complete review

Right, i'm actually writing this op because my scanners broken and i got really annoyed. bought this for around £120 when it first came out about 2 yrs ago and when it was working correctly, it was good, but the images i scanned never seemed to be as good as another scanner for the same price range. i don't know why this is, i've never had a scanner before this one, but comparing to my friends' scans, mine seemed to look not as good! well anyway, i've only really used the scanner a few times, and mainly bought it for my technology graphics project at school. i never seemed to get very high quality scans from say books, but i seemed to get ...  Read the complete review

I wanted to be able to scan smallish photographs which I could blow up and print so wanted agood scanner. Not knowing much I took a reccomendation from a computer test (PCadvisor I think) and have been very pleased. The scanner offers a USB2.0 interface (400M), but I only use a USB1.1 cable (provided)and port on my PC (~10M) and that is fast enough for most work unless you do lots of photos or very large ones at high resolution. The intructions also mnetion possible incompatibility with some USB 2.0 cards (Adaptec unless latest drivers are used) and that Microsoft support for USB 2.0 is not quite ready. So maybe using USB1.1 is safer for now, but I can always ...  Read the complete review