scanner decision

[sothsegger]

I recently bought a 2400 dpi scanner for my USB 1.0 port. It seems a bit slow. It's supposed to work faster with a USB 2.0. I was thinking of exchanging it for a 1200 dpi scanner. I imagine it would be faster. But would I miss the resolution? Can someone advise me?

 

[Quasmo]

An 8x10 picture scanned at 2400 is a HUGE document its about 300mb(?) I hardly doubt that you'd need that resolution, and if you did you would be willing to order a $15 or less USB 2.0 card which runs at 480mb/s instead of 12.

 

[MrChad]

You can adjust the settings down a bit so it doesn't scan at full resolution. I also recommend picking up a USB 2.0 card, which should help things quite a bit.

 

[heartsurgeon]

my ecommendation is to get a s cheap scsi card and cable and do your scanning that way. i do alot of scanning and have owned three different scanners....

usb just doesn't cit it when it comes to scanning in my opinion, even usb 2.0

you just don't get consistent speed with usb, and i have had some funny problems with usb 2.0 under win2000 running a HP scanner..the problems went away when i installed a scsi card fore the scanner.