Chuck's far too modest. That 2720 list is very quiet nowadays but any
posting gets an immediate, detailed, lengthy and helpful reply from Chuck.
Just check out the archive!
I second what he says, my 2720 served me well, especially with Vuescan, but
I haven't unpacked it since moving house last September (thanks to a D-70 -
ooh sorry, wrong list)
$75 sounds good to me.
Jez
On 6/16/06, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I own one of these and consider the price not unreasonable. It's
> actually a pretty good scanner but does not have an IR channel as does
> the later 2740s model. The included software does a good job on well
> exposed images but VueScan can do much better.
>
> Probably the biggest down side is that the slide holder was apparently
> designed by a Neanderthal. It's plastic and the tension springs that
> hold the slides in place are an integral part of the molding. Initially
> they're so tight that it takes too much pressure to insert the slides
> and later on the springs break off. The best solution it to just cut
> them off and glue on small pieces of springy foam at two corners to act
> as light weight springs. Usability is then considerably improved.
>
> There is a fairly inactive email support group called 2720 on Yahoo
> Groups. Not much traffic there these days but the archives contain a
> lot of material on resolving common problems. A few people have
> reported problems after upgrading to XP. XP drivers are supplied by
> Benq (used to be Acer) and I think the XP problems, when they occur, are
> related to SCSI support which I think Microsoft gives short shrift in XP.
>
>
>
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