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A Man With a Plan...To Scan
Apr. 24th, 2006 05:20 pmHey.
Because the service charges were getting higher than the interest, I pulled my money out of my savings account today. I hope to invest some of it in a replacement scanner, as my long-time unsupported Artec gave up at about the time the power surge kay-o'ed the hard drive on my mother's compy and led to other such problems. I think there's actually something physically wrong with the Artec, but I don't have any way to check. But I think I got about my money's worth from it.
I went to the M'Town Office Max and Sears this afternoon. OM only carries one brand of flatbed scanner and I wasn't very impressed. The Sears electronics department was being rearranged today, so there was no point in asking for help from a salesman. I'm not sure that Radio Shack bothers with computer peripherals anymore.
I just went to the websites for Office Depot and Staples. Staples has better selection but OD seems to have better prices. I'll probably try Best Buy as well...presuming I can get over to that side of town this week.
Don't they even make flatbed scanners bigger than letter-size anymore? I could actually use something a little bigger, for larger magazines and posters and books and blueprints and the like. It's kind of frustrating to have to make multiple scans of an object and then have to merge the files together to make it whole again.
FP
Because the service charges were getting higher than the interest, I pulled my money out of my savings account today. I hope to invest some of it in a replacement scanner, as my long-time unsupported Artec gave up at about the time the power surge kay-o'ed the hard drive on my mother's compy and led to other such problems. I think there's actually something physically wrong with the Artec, but I don't have any way to check. But I think I got about my money's worth from it.
I went to the M'Town Office Max and Sears this afternoon. OM only carries one brand of flatbed scanner and I wasn't very impressed. The Sears electronics department was being rearranged today, so there was no point in asking for help from a salesman. I'm not sure that Radio Shack bothers with computer peripherals anymore.
I just went to the websites for Office Depot and Staples. Staples has better selection but OD seems to have better prices. I'll probably try Best Buy as well...presuming I can get over to that side of town this week.
Don't they even make flatbed scanners bigger than letter-size anymore? I could actually use something a little bigger, for larger magazines and posters and books and blueprints and the like. It's kind of frustrating to have to make multiple scans of an object and then have to merge the files together to make it whole again.
FP
