ivinsfan
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I noticed in the Amazon thread that Walt43 just picked up a new printer. I need to start checking them out for a possible Black Friday purchase.
For many years we ran dell all in one's and found them great, that is until we needed to upgrade them to a new operating system. XP to Windows 7 ended up needing to get a new printer because we just could not get the drivers to work. The last printer wouldn't upgrade from 7 to Windows 8.I went to Dell and you couldn't get more then a chat session that told you to upgrade and install your drivers..didn't work. The drivers would install but not talk to the printer.
In disgust we bought a cheapo Epson that upgraded quite nicely when we switched from Windows 8 to 10. But I have decades of old family pictures I want to scan and store in the cloud and also share on FB where we have an extended family picture page. My cheap Epson simply copies or scans the picture the same as it would copy a piece of paper, in other words you just see a copy of the picture not a true scan of it. No quality at all.
My Dells were much better and it was like looking at the actual picture and not just a copy of it. I guess since we just upgraded to Win 10 I could get a Dell made for 10 and I would get a few years use out of it. But honestly I'm disgusted with the lack of technical support on their printers.
Can any of you who scan and store photos point me toward a good middle end printer? I'm not even sure what I should be looking for in the specs. Thanks in advance.
For many years we ran dell all in one's and found them great, that is until we needed to upgrade them to a new operating system. XP to Windows 7 ended up needing to get a new printer because we just could not get the drivers to work. The last printer wouldn't upgrade from 7 to Windows 8.I went to Dell and you couldn't get more then a chat session that told you to upgrade and install your drivers..didn't work. The drivers would install but not talk to the printer.
In disgust we bought a cheapo Epson that upgraded quite nicely when we switched from Windows 8 to 10. But I have decades of old family pictures I want to scan and store in the cloud and also share on FB where we have an extended family picture page. My cheap Epson simply copies or scans the picture the same as it would copy a piece of paper, in other words you just see a copy of the picture not a true scan of it. No quality at all.
My Dells were much better and it was like looking at the actual picture and not just a copy of it. I guess since we just upgraded to Win 10 I could get a Dell made for 10 and I would get a few years use out of it. But honestly I'm disgusted with the lack of technical support on their printers.
Can any of you who scan and store photos point me toward a good middle end printer? I'm not even sure what I should be looking for in the specs. Thanks in advance.
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