Scanner Feedback and Assistance

[Slacker]

After hearing positive comments and seeing some of the scans posted by board members using a Hewlett Packard Sacanjet 3970 I went out to by one today. I visited the big name stores such as Office Max, Staples, Circuiit city, Wal Mart, etc, and found that no one had one in stock.

 

I then went online to the HP website to find they dont carry any, Walmart.Com is out of stock. Do they still make em?? Can anyone recommend a reputable online source that may carry some. I even checked ebay there is one seller that has one unopened but the box is pretty beat and that concerns me. I would like to have the ability to post decent scans at a reasonable price and preferably get the slab and label in one shot. Any suggestions are appreciated.

 

Jim.

[AtlasT]

I got mine on ebay for a bargain; I think I paid approx. $60, postpaid. If you search ebay for "scanjet 3970," you'll find some very promising results, from ebayers with attractive feedback ratings.

 

The last time I looked into it, the cost of a scanner that was large enough to scan a CGC slab in its entirety was, to my way of thinking, prohibitive. I splice two scans together to produce faithful, informative, and reasonably sized (usuallly smaller than 200 KB) scans of my CGC slabs.

 

[Slacker]

Atlas, Do you know if production 3970 has been discontinued?

[Timulty]

I don't know if it has been discontinued but I bought mine on Ebay as well.

[AtlasT]

Per the HP website, the 3970 has been discontinued.

[Slacker]

Just my luck.... I see HP still makes the Scanjet 3670 anyone know if its comprable in scanning comics as the 3970?

[Timulty]

You could run a search on 3670 and look over the posts.