Printers & Scanners

If you’ve been taking photographs regularly over time, chances are you’ve amassed an appreciable number of photographs that when asked, you gladly share with others. The trouble starts when you haul out a cubit-thick pile of unedited prints, which even for the staunchest of family and friends, can be as agonizing as a trip to the dentist.

Making sharp, richly toned inkjet prints from digital image files couldn’t be easier, even with the simplest digital cameras and printers. According to everything you’ve read online about all those terrific desktop printers, your prints should last well into the lifetimes of your children’s grandchildren.

While there are a number of scanners selling for under $1,000 that are capable of producing high definition, well-detailed scans of flat artwork, few in this price range are capable of producing high-def scans of photographic transparencies, most notably 35mm slides. One of the few exceptions to this rule is the Epson Perfection V750-M Pro Scanner.

For those in need of an inexpensive, easy-to-use flatbed scanner for copying documents and flat artwork, Canon offers you two choices, and both are priced well under $100 with enough change left over for a nice dinner and a movie.

For over a decade, Epson has been producing an ever-improving family of Photo Stylus desktop printers designed to deliver faithfully-rendered, archival-quality digital inkjet prints at remarkably affordable prices.

If you wish your holiday greeting cards were more personable (more you?), perhaps it's time to start creating them yourself. Many desktop printers come bundled with software containing greeting card format templates, and even if they don't, most imaging applications, including Photoshop CS/2/3, and Elements, enable desktop printing for pretty much any format you can think of.

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