Best Scanner for Scanning multiple 35mm Film Strips

I have just purchased a Minolta Dimage Scan Dual III for 35mm slide
and negative scanning and am quite pleased with the performance and
the quality of the scans.

I am now looking for a flatbed scanner that will scan the maximum
number of 35 mm negatives to generate a contact print equivalent. The
quality of this scan is of secondary importance. Total transparency
scan area is the primary feature of interest.

Any opinions or advice on the best choice for a flatbed scanner for
this purpose would be greatly appreciated.

Photoshop and photoshop elements will produce a contact sheet for you, if
you are planning on scanning all the images. It takes a couple of minutes,
not long. You can print it in jewel case format so that you could tape it to
a CD with the roll of images on it. That way you have both, a contact sheet
and also good quality digital images.

Dave


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I have just purchased a Minolta Dimage Scan Dual III for 35mm slide
and negative scanning and am quite pleased with the performance and
the quality of the scans.

I am now looking for a flatbed scanner that will scan the maximum
number of 35 mm negatives to generate a contact print equivalent. The
quality of this scan is of secondary importance. Total transparency
scan area is the primary feature of interest.

Any opinions or advice on the best choice for a flatbed scanner for
this purpose would be greatly appreciated.

can anyone suggest a scanner/printer combo:

legal size (8 1/2x14)
sheet bin feeder
laser printer
USB2
windows 98SE & XP

losts of text and some photos

Laser printers are not very good for photos. HP makes a scanner adapter for
their 1200 series laser printers (now 1300).
Otherwise there are many combo scanner/inkjet printers. These are not as
crisp for text but better for graphics.

Harry wrote:
can anyone suggest a scanner/printer combo:

legal size (8 1/2x14)
sheet bin feeder
laser printer
USB2
windows 98SE & XP

losts of text and some photos


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Harry,

If I read your question correctly, text is the important function and
photos are not. The previous response that suggested inkjet
multi-functions is probably answering the wrong question. I originally
went with a high-end HP inkjet multi-function that was adequate for
photos but totally inadequate for text and bogged down my computer. I
then chose an HP 3330 multi-function/flat-top. It has been reliable and
fast for printing and scanning text ... a good office machine. While it
does scan photos on the flat bed in color, I have not been happy with
the quality of scans for hi-quality printing on another photo printer
(which this is not). I may have to go to a "film" scanner for this
task. OTOH, if the photo scanning is incidental and you're not going to
do high quality photo printing from these scans, this HP is probably one
of the better choices and highly recommendable.

Jerry Cipriano