Realy Need Some Help

TheDon · September 12, 2005

Well i realy realy need to get myself an A3 Scanner within the next day or two for some work i am doing.

I have done the usual and looked on the net but can only find ones that are from obscure companies that want 5+ days for delivery.

Quality is not of the upermost importance as its not for photographic work, more for AutoCAD based purposes.

idealy i want somewhere that i can walk in and purchace the item rather than order it, and my budget is about £90-100.

have seen many availiable on net but cant find many shops selling them.

i am based in sittingbourne at moment but can travel within 60 miles.

any help apreciated.

(tried pc world, staples and all the local pc shops )

TheDon · September 12, 2005

one scanner i found

aido · September 12, 2005

Chris, sure we bought one from PC World years ago (you're talking five years here) - it was a cheap one, think it was £100 then but it worked alright, just wasn't the quickest thing!

Did they not have any now then?

MrADeveci · September 12, 2005

Why don't u shrink the page in a photo copier to A4 ... then scan that ?

aido · September 12, 2005

How's this buddy?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B...7590355-7886854

That what you're after or do you want something a little bit more advanced? Do you need an ADF or anything?

Bazza · September 12, 2005

delivery in 24 hours !

TheDon · September 12, 2005

aido - looked at pc world and they only have 1 a3 scanner, it was over £800 so had to discount it.

Scarface - would be too much work, plus i need it to scan a lot of things and reducing them would add too much time

TheDon · September 12, 2005

brilliant stuff bazza and aido!!!

will order from there! cheers!

Bazza · September 12, 2005

How's this buddy?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B...7590355-7886854

That what you're after or do you want something a little bit more advanced? Do you need an ADF or anything?

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delivery in 24 hours !

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oooooh !! great minds use the same search engine

TheDon · September 12, 2005

i was using msn shopping and froogle shopping, what did you guys use?

aido · September 12, 2005

great minds strike again, me and Bazza posted the same thing at the same time from the same place!

I used to work for an imaging company years ago mate and cheap A3 scanners aren't really a popular product which is why you don't tend to find them in the stores, we were amazed when I found the Mustek one as we were looking at probably a Fujitsu one which was over a grand - best scanners I ever worked with were the Kodak 9500's - as big as a fridge and the same cost as a new Porsche - the selling line was that it could scan everything except for a piece of toast (and they even tried that!!!). Think it might just be overkill for you thought pal

aido · September 12, 2005

i was using msn shopping and froogle shopping, what did you guys use?

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Just typed "a3 colour flatbed scanner" into Google mate, never used anything fancy

Bazza · September 12, 2005

i was using msn shopping and froogle shopping, what did you guys use?

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Just typed "a3 colour flatbed scanner" into Google mate, never used anything fancy

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i typed " a3 scanner"

cos im lazy

TheDon · September 12, 2005

right ordered it up and the buggers sent me an email saying it wont be dispatched till the 14th!!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr oh well as long as i have it by the weekend i can work then! although i wanted to work during the week!

cheers again

aido · September 12, 2005

That's tomorrow mate?

One thing I find with amazon is that they always overestimate delivery times - I've had loads of things which should have been despatched within five days sent within 24 hours?!

Weird!

Jiberjaber · September 12, 2005

Can you not use a copy shop ?

Generally I use our print room though we also have an A3 scanner and downstairs we have a full colour drawing copier (upto A0!)

Copy shop may be best esp if it is for work and on a deadline, just drop the stuff off, tell them what format you want it in and when you want it by then go and get a coffee.....

:)

TheDon · September 20, 2005

well, lets just say the path has not flown smoothly with this scanner......

I got the first sign things were going wrong when on wednesday last week i got a card saying that they couldnt deliver (parcelfarce uk) when i know full well i was in the house and the bell was working.

phoned up to complain and was told will deliver tomorrow, well they never came.....

phoned again and told them to take it to post office, they said it will be there by 2pm next day....

on sat i went to post office and guess what, it wasnt there...

phoned up the people again and manager pisses me off by saying that he wont deliver it now till monday, a few choice words and mentioning head office had it delivered to me by 3pm sat.

get it out of box and check ok, seems fine so leave it be for a few days.

go to set it all up today to get some work i need done asap - and guess what the scanner is bust!!!! the lamp on the scanning side doesnt come on so wont scan bugger all!!

aaggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

and now coz i ordered through amazon i have to send it back to them! so so so not fair so i gotta go through the crap again with the delivery!

MartinC · September 20, 2005

that kind of thing winds me up always think twice before ordering anything mail order, most times its all OK, but theres always those times that restore your faithin them ballsing it up.

You can't been walking in somewhere and picking goods off a shelf

TheDon · September 21, 2005

now im realy ****** off, they are sending out a replacement asap, but as they have no more stock it could be 1-2 weeks!

aido · September 21, 2005

Chris, if you need the scans urgently how about popping to a local scanning bureau? They shouldn't charge too much and will give you a CD with your scans on for now?

You'll usually find them in the Yellow Pages under document imaging or scanning bureau?

TheDon · September 21, 2005

will do my good man, it was just me being lazy by buying this.

But when its all set up it will be good.

aido · September 21, 2005

Yeah it's a lot better being able to do it yourself mate, I used to work for an imaging company years ago but they've shut now otherwise I could have got them to sort you out, I found one on Google called FM Image Management which said they were near you but looking at their website they're in Andover now