Tell Me Stuff: Technology Division

[gnomi]

mabfan and I are looking to buy a scanner. We'd love to get one that also can be a fax machine. But we don't know what are the best ones, so we figured we'd ask here. Our current technological parameters are:

-- Needs to connect to a Mac iBook G4 running Tiger (OS 10.4)
-- Needs to be able to produce good-quality digital renditions from color and black-and-white photographs

So? Suggestions?

Comments

seconding LiDE for scanning

[chaos-wrangler.livejournal.com]

We've got an LiDE60 and I used an LiDE-something at a previous job. Both do/did well with color photos, and I used the one at work to turn color photos into black-and-white for publication. I also used the one at work to scan black-and-white/greyscale artwork, so I'm guessing it can handle b&w photos.

As for using as a fax, I'm pretty sure I've seen software for using one's computer as a fax machine, although it probably required a computer-to-phone connection (and may have been seen when dial-up was standard). If such does exist, going from scanner to computer file to out-going fax (and incoming-fax to computer file to printer) shouldn't be too difficult.