All in one or separate scanner - printer for xp64 OS?

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Danielle E

My trusty HP812C has worked reliably for about 6 years now and is still
going strong. However, I now have an application where a scanner would be
handy.

I find myself debating on the following:

Separate scanner / printer or all in one?

Manufacturer?

If separate should printer and scanner be the same manufacturer?

(I see Epson has some x64 drivers available now. It looks like Cannon is
supposed to release some soon.)

Comments will be appreciated.

(Does any one have a favorite site for detailed reviews?)


Danielle
 
Danielle said:
My trusty HP812C has worked reliably for about 6 years now and is still
going strong. However, I now have an application where a scanner would be
handy.

I find myself debating on the following:

Separate scanner / printer or all in one?

Manufacturer?

If separate should printer and scanner be the same manufacturer?

(I see Epson has some x64 drivers available now. It looks like Cannon is
supposed to release some soon.)

Comments will be appreciated.

(Does any one have a favorite site for detailed reviews?)


Danielle
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Advantages of all-in-one:

1) Less desk space required which is at a premium in my house.

2) If you ever will need a fax, it's the way to go. A separate scanner and
printer plus a computer can be made to work as a fax, but why bother to kludge
it together when it's so simple when they're all in one box?

3) Depending on what you buy, the all-in-one may be cheaper -- or not...


Disadvantages:

1) If one bit of it fails, the whole thing is junk. You can't replace just the
printer that failed or whatever.

Good luck...

Bill
 
Interesting comment regarding the fax. I have never really found myself
with a dire need for a fax at home. If you install one of these new all in
one machines with fax to a computer using a DSL connection, does the fax
interrupt your voice line or does it use the DSL?

The Epson all in one machine I was considering does not include fax.

(At work I always as people to fax me documents to an email fax inbox number
where the file is stored as a tif file.) At work I know there are a few
people will fax a document to their own email inbox and then email the tif
file.


Danielle
 
Thanks for noting that I will need compatible software in addition to the
x64 driver. Right now I am totally reliant on the x64 OS. I do not have a
32 bit OS loaded on my machine.

Danielle
 
You are lucky.
I gave up on Win64 because it was the most unstable and unreliable operating
system I have seen since IBM tried to run OS2 in a world of 486-33
processors with 8mbs of RAM.
However for those few moments when Win64 would actually boot and run the
Epson drivers functioned quite well.
 
My trusty HP812C has worked reliably for about 6 years now and is still
going strong. However, I now have an application where a scanner would be
handy.
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Your main decision is between speed and desktop space.
Separate scanner / printer or all in one?
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Your serviceable HP printer probably prints faster than
any of the cheaper multifunction machines.

Any cheap scanner scans much faster than almost
any of the multifunction machines (using manufacturers'
software e.g. Epson.)
 
Bill said:
Danielle E wrote:
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SEPARATES ALLOW YOU TO UPGRADE ONE FUNCTION WITHOUT THE OTHER.
SEPARATES ARE REALLY CHEAPER FOR TOP NOTCH STUFF. IF ONE FUNCTION GOES
BAD IN A MFD YOU NEED TO REPLACE ALL OF IT OR OPT FOR AN EXPENSIVE REPAIR
AFTER DOING RESEARCH I BOUGHT AN EPSON SCANNER AND A CANON PRINTER SO I
COULD HAVE BEST OF BOTH. EPSON SCANNERS ARE BETTER AND FASTER AND CANON
PRINTERS THE SAME.
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Advantages of all-in-one:

1) Less desk space required which is at a premium in my house.

2) If you ever will need a fax, it's the way to go.
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TOTALLY WRONG. THE PROBLEM IS THAT ALL OF THE UNWANTED FAXES MUST BE
PRINTED IF YOU CHOOSE TO PRINT ANY OF THEM. THERE IS NOT SELECTIVE
PRINTING. YOU ARE BETTER OFF WITH FAX SOFTWARE, A MODEM AND A COMPUTER.
A separate scanner and
printer plus a computer can be made to work as a fax, but why bother to kludge
it together when it's so simple when they're all in one box?
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MANY MORE ADVANTAGES
 
Don said:
Your main decision is between speed and desktop space.
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FOR THE MOST PART. BUT THE TOP LINE CANON MFG DO HAVE A DUPLEXER FOR
SCANNING STANDARD DOUBLE SIDE DOCUMENTS
 
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