When I helped a friend scan some photos I realized my old scanner is s-l-o-w !
I wonder about the quality of the scans and prints of all-in-ones.
Do you prefer separate machines or can all-in-ones do just as good a job?
Diane

Hi Diane
It depends really - personally i prefer a separate scanner - but that is because i believe that a dedicated photo printer out performs an all in one. So for me its about the printer rather than the scanner

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I went with the all in one. Reason well I have one now and the quality has been pretty good but the biggest reason is that my scanner part of my all in one dies my mom wanted me to scan all the family stuff for her... while looking at the stuff i found that my printer was now dying... so I found an all in one model that was discontinued to make way for the new one so i got it for a screaming deal. It had pretty much all that I wanted in both a printer and a scanner... You really have to decide what features are the most important to you. I needed both a printer and a scanner and If my mom was paying i was going to get the best of both worlds. And it was $100 less than the scanner alone with less features.

The way that I started was to wright down all the features that I HAD TO HAVE and then of course a list of the things that I would like to have. Then I called all the customer hot lines for all the company i would consider purchasing a printer from. I gave them my list of must haves ... they will give you a list of model numbers. Then take the model numbers and do a Google search. There is so much info out there. Company's that compare models people that compared . Some places even had video showing all of the features. I think i called all of the company's at least 3 times to make sure i got the same answers hehe. Then I just went on my preference. Some of them go tossed our fast.. and then when you come to the final few... what one gives you all of what you need and most of what you want.

I had a couple of verry unick featuers so my list was only incluede 1 scanner and 2 all in ones :O

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For my system, I have a really good Canon scanner because I needed it to scan negatives dating back to the 1920's, and it is only used for photo work. I also have 2 HP photosmart printers, which have mostly been used only for printing photos (used my HP laser printer for regular print jobs until it died).

Now... my 12 year old DD has been doing an excessive amount of drawing and wanted us to find her a good scanner so she could finish her work using PSE4. We ended up getting her an HP all-in-one as it was cheaper, and suitable for her needs. It does not scan negatives or 3D items, but it does scan at 600dpi for her artwork, and prints basic photo quality if she needs it.

What it boils down to, is buy a really good brand like Canon or HP, and you will probably be happy.

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I have an Epson scanner. But I don't have a need for an all in one. I never fax anymore. Everyone pdfs stuff via email. My scanner does slides and negatives also, so it fits my needs. I also scan things.....some of which can be thick or strangly shapped, so I like what I've got.