{"id":646,"date":"2003-06-01T21:40:22","date_gmt":"2003-06-01T21:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-646.html"},"modified":"2014-01-03T16:21:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T16:21:26","slug":"new-scanner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2003\/06\/01\/new-scanner\/","title":{"rendered":"New scanner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2003\/06\/epson_perfection_1660.jpg\" alt=\"Epson Perfection 1660 scanner\" align=\"left\" style=\"border:1px solid black;margin-right:10px;margin-bottom:10px;\" \/>We bought a new scanner today, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epson.co.uk\/sohoprod\/imaging\/scanner\/perf1660\/index.htm\">Epson Perfection 1660<\/a>.  We got it from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.co.uk\/\">PC World<\/a> for \u00a3119, which is actually <em>less<\/em> than you would pay at most web shops.  Not that I knew that before I went in to the shop.  I went along to PC without having done my on-line reasearch to find out what the state of the scanner market is.  A foolish move.<\/p>\n<p>But on the other hand, I&#8217;m not a professional photographer or a graphic artist, so my needs are pretty basic.  In the end, I chose the Epson for the following reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It has a USB2 interface, so it should be nicely fast.  I don&#8217;t have USB2 on my PC yet (old-style USB only), but I will eventually.<\/li>\n<li>It has a built-in transparency adapter, so it can scan 35mm photo negatives and positives (slides).  That&#8217;s cool.  I didn&#8217;t know that this is now a common option on mid-priced scanners.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s from a well-known brand.  I think this is the fourth scanner we&#8217;ve had since 1995, and it&#8217;s the first one we&#8217;ve bought that wasn&#8217;t the cheapest unbranded thing we could find.  Considering I&#8217;m not clued up about scanners in general, I figured that I couldn&#8217;t go too far wrong with an Epson.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As expected, the software that comes bundled with the scanner is rubbish, but that&#8217;s okay because all I need is the basic drivers.  I&#8217;ll be using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasc.com\/products\/paintshoppro\/\">Paint Shop Pro 8<\/a> for everything else.  (More about PSP 8 some other time.  I&#8217;ve only started working with it, but already I can tell I&#8217;m going to love it.  It&#8217;s slower than 7, and it&#8217;s a bit of a resource hog, but being able to write scripts for it makes up for a lot.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2003\/06\/epson_perfection_1660.jpg\" alt=\"Epson Perfection 1660 scanner\" align=\"left\" style=\"border:1px solid black;margin-right:10px;margin-bottom:10px;\" \/>We bought a new scanner today, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epson.co.uk\/sohoprod\/imaging\/scanner\/perf1660\/index.htm\">Epson Perfection 1660<\/a>.  We got it from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.co.uk\/\">PC World<\/a> for \ufffd119, which is actually <em>less<\/em> than you would pay at most web shops.  Not that I knew that before I went in to the shop.  I went along to PC without having done my on-line reasearch to find out what the state of the scanner market is.  A foolish move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}