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b318isp

Anyone ever tried somehting like this before? :

http://aldi.ie/ie/html/offers/special_buys3_24940.htm

I'm looking for something cheap for my parents to scan in old photos, one at a time. [A flatbed scanner proved to be too much of a challenge].

I would not be expecting top quality scans, but given that there is a myriad of 50+ old photos, convenience is more important.

DaireQuinlan

b318isp wrote: »

Anyone ever tried somehting like this before? :

http://aldi.ie/ie/html/offers/special_buys3_24940.htm

I'm looking for something cheap for my parents to scan in old photos, one at a time. [A flatbed scanner proved to be too much of a challenge].

I would not be expecting top quality scans, but given that there is a myriad of 50+ old photos, convenience is more important.

For prints, get a flatbed scanner and show them how to use it. The difficulty is in the software, not the hardware. That yoke you linked to, and it's myriad of clones, are crap. Complete crap. Buy some low end canon or epson flatbed and you'll get several orders of magnitude better results.

b318isp

Well that's the issue. I've tried the flatbed scanner route - and the software is the turn off. They are just not into the complexities of it.

They are 70 years of ago, and just want to pop in a photo, press a button and get a picture out.

DaireQuinlan

b318isp wrote: »

Well that's the issue. I've tried the flatbed scanner route - and the software is the turn off. They are just not into the complexities of it.

They are 70 years of ago, and just want to pop in a photo, press a button and get a picture out.

That aldi thing though is going to have something similar in terms of software, and more probably some buggy piece of nonstandard crap that'll give them (and by extension you :-D) more trouble than it's worth.

If my mother, who's 68, can merrily go about her own way digitising her enormous print collection using a flatbed and adobe elements, I'm sure you can drag them up by their coat-tails and show them how it all hangs together

b318isp

Whatever chance of my dad learning the ropes (but isn't motivated to do so), by mother would be completely lost (she can't even use the web).

It seems that this option would be a waste of money from what you say, so thanks for that.

DaireQuinlan

b318isp wrote: »

Whatever chance of my dad learning the ropes (but isn't motivated to do so), by mother would be completely lost (she can't even use the web).

It seems that this option would be a waste of money from what you say, so thanks for that.

PM stcstc , boardsie here on the photo forum, runs a print/scan place. From what I remember he was talking about offering a bulk scanning service a while back. You send him in a big box of prints and he scans them and uploads the results. At least I think it was him ...

stcstc

yes it was meeeeee :-)

I have a bulk print scanner that can scan 50 prints a minute

now they are not massive high res scans but generally good enough for a4 type sized prints

max size it can scan would be around a4


i have diff levels for diff volumes


gimmie a shout cos dont wanna get into trouble here for mentioning prices etc

b318isp

OK, will do - I'll check to see what sort of quantities. As a ballpark, if you can PM me a price for, say 200. Thanks.