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I've used this printer to scan all of my old pictures and it always does a great job.
What better than a five star rating, unless yuo're lonely and need to type to someone. Althought I think it is completely ridiculas to have to write all of this for ebay, after I already rated this 4 stars. Ebay makes this way too time consuming. It's good stuff. That's enough.
I have been very happy with this unit. I bought this scanner some years ago. I have used it a lot for scanning slides. I have never had any problem with it. It scans well and as a bonus it also scans slides plus negatives. The only cons are it's slow scanning speed and it's rather quirky software. But for the price you are getting more than your monies worth.
I have had this scanner for a little over a year. The software has now completey failed and I have to use a microsoft product to get it to work, and most of the time the scanner will not come on. It has never made good copies/scans from a negative. I often have to rescan things. It is very tempremental. I often have to jiggle cords and unplug things and mess around for an hour just to scan something.
Reading reviews here and elsewere has actually confirmed my suspicions that this is some type of design defect. I got this unit about two months ago. The unit never scanned very well, and now it barely scans at all. I've had many scanners and never encountered anything like this before. Terrible. This HP product is very attractive and well priced, but what does that mean if a piece of hardware is poor.
I "upgraded" because I wanted a faster (USB-2 as opposed to USB-1) scanner, and a unit that had slide and film transfer capabilites. As other users have indicated with their units, my scanner has begun making a shrieking sound which is quite unbearable. I used an Agfa SnapScan 1212u for almost 8 years without a problem. It took me a while to figure out that the scanner was making the shrieking sound. I thought my computer was dying. This scanner was never much faster than my Agfa and the quality is on much, much lower.
I would advise anyone reading this to buy another product.
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