[crispy]

Hello All,

I've been asked in work to look into purchasing a scanner for capturing passport size photos which will be used at a later stage for printing on to a range of letters to clients. It shouldn't be an all in one printer/fax/scanner if possible. We already have full size office equipment than can do all the scanning/photocopying/printing and would be stored on desktops so the smaller the better. These would be used just specifally for capturing the passport size photos. Probably going to need to purchase 6 of these.

I haven't been given a budget but reckon the cheaper the better. I was thinking of just general stuff from the likes of Argos or Curry etc but the software would seem to be the most important aspect as it needs to work with Windows XP, Service Pack 3. (Which is what we currentlyhave installed) and preferably be able to auto crop the image.

I was thinking of something like this or this but ideally would like something smaller.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

[crispy]

Don't know why but I am unable to edit the topic to insert hyperlinks.

Anway I was looking at these two scanners but I've very little knowledge of which to choose.

http://www.argos.ie/...t%3ESCANNER.htm

http://www.hpshop.ie...no=L2696A%23B19

[Tripleman]

crispy, on 30 September 2011 - 09:23 AM, said:

Hello All,

I've been asked in work to look into purchasing a scanner for capturing passport size photos which will be used at a later stage for printing on to a range of letters to clients. It shouldn't be an all in one printer/fax/scanner if possible. We already have full size office equipment than can do all the scanning/photocopying/printing and would be stored on desktops so the smaller the better. These would be used just specifally for capturing the passport size photos. Probably going to need to purchase 6 of these.

I haven't been given a budget but reckon the cheaper the better. I was thinking of just general stuff from the likes of Argos or Curry etc but the software would seem to be the most important aspect as it needs to work with Windows XP, Service Pack 3. (Which is what we currentlyhave installed) and preferably be able to auto crop the image.

I was thinking of something like this or this but ideally would like something smaller.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

I'm not at all up to date with what is available but I'd point out that the cheaper the scanner the crappier the picture and the less impressed your clients will be. You'll be far better getting a full sized photo of the person compressed down to a manageable jpeg and use that instead.

To be honest I can't see any merit in what is proposed. Passport photos are low resolution and you are simply compounding that with a cheap scanner and printing onto plain paper. I have scanned passport photos with my fairly good Canon purpose built photo scanner and they still look terrible on the screen and printed.

[crispy]

Tripleman, on 30 September 2011 - 10:04 AM, said:

I'm not at all up to date with what is available but I'd point out that the cheaper the scanner the crappier the picture and the less impressed your clients will be. You'll be far better getting a full sized photo of the person compressed down to a manageable jpeg and use that instead.

To be honest I can't see any merit in what is proposed. Passport photos are low resolution and you are simply compounding that with a cheap scanner and printing onto plain paper. I have scanned passport photos with my fairly good Canon purpose built photo scanner and they still look terrible on the screen and printed.

Thanks Tripleman,

The problem is that we request a passpost size photo is sent in with the application and will be only printing that image in the same size again......

This post has been edited by crispy: 30 September 2011 - 11:59 AM

[Vixen]

We use an epson one in work, ive scanned small photos with it no probs, just need to scan at high res. I worked in a photolab and we had an epson there too.

[Lilliput]

Canon are an excellent scanner and you can scan any size and then print passport size, you can even print stamp size, they go from stamp size to A4 size, the one i have is a printer scanner and the quality is excellent, i have used it to scan really old pics from my grandparents and they turned out fabulous

I know you said you don't want a printer scanner but the canon is excellent for quality , i think my one is an (somenthing maybe "M") 490