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Hey if you're looking for a nice basic scanner that's going to get
the job done well, easy, it's going to look good in your office, have a look at this one.
It's the HP Scanjet G3110- 'thirty-one ten'... whatever, solid scanner,
very nice, it's got a very nice look to it, it's very clean, it'll look good
in just about any office situation I would say, and what's very nice about this
is that it's very basic, it's very simple, really what makes the whole scanning experience
work for you anyway is the software, and the software that comes with HP scanners,
the suite of software that they have is really second to none,
and makes the entire experience very, very easy to handle.
It makes scanning documents into your various programs, making copies,
very, very easy, so this is a very simple scanner, 4800 x 9600 resolution,
so it's a very, very nice, high resolution. It's got a couple of things on it
that make it very nice for scanning photos and negatives, because as you notice,
on the inside here, it has a built-in negative and 35-millimeter slide tray.
A lot of the times on scanners these will actually be a seperate attachment,
something that you have to deal with and that you're going to have to
store away somewhere, this is actually built right in, it will take up to five negatives,
a five-negative strip in this tray, and it will also take up to
four 35-millimeter slides in this tray as well. So it can be configured for your slides
and for your negatives. And of course when you're trying to get those
old family photos scanned in and saved, you want to be able to use those negatives
because the quality is going to be so much higher when you scan the negatives
than when you scan the prints. When you scan the prints
you're dealing with dust, you're dealing with scratches,
possible problems with the photo process when you got them developed,
you're dealing with the age of the photos... if you just scan the negatives,
then you're going to have the perfect resolution, it's going to be well-preserved,
and they're going to look a whole lot better. One of the other things that's very nice
about this scanner is that the lid very easily lifts up and out of the scanner.
So you can scan objects that have more dimension to them.
Large books, things that are three-dimensional, can be easily scanned on this scanner,
because that lid very quickly pops right off of it and makes it very easy for you
to get those three-dimensional objects scanned in. So it also has a number of buttons
here on the front that make it very easy to scan as well. It has a quick button right here
for sending a document straight to a PDF which is very handy
especially in an office situation, this will allow you to scan a document
and immediately have it launch and attach that document
to an e-mail, this will immediately send the document to your printer,
so it acts sort of a photo-copy machine, and this is just the Quick Scan button,
when you push this button it automatically launches
the HP scanning software, and allows you to tweak and change all of the settings
to your heart's content from there. Now it is a USB scanner,
you're going to find your ports on the side here,
it does take a standard USB port. This is your power port right here,
and of course an on and off switch right here. So it's incredibly basic, very simple,
but very easy to use. The HP scanning software, like I said,
is designed very well, they've been working on it
for years and years and years and it is probably some of the
easiest, most elegant scanning software that you're going to find anywhere.
So that really makes the experience, and that's kind of what makes the
HP Scanjet G3110 as good as it is. Of course it's got that 4800 x 9600 resolution,
built right in-- the 35-millimeter slides and negatives can slide right in here
and it's just an overall quality scanner that you've got to look at,
especially if you're in the market for something nice and basic
that's going to look nice in your office. It's the HP Scanjet G3110.
If you want to grab an HP Scanjet G3110 go to any of the retailers listed here
and type in H24-L2698A. For ComputerTV, i'm Bauer.
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