Hewlett Packard Scanjet G3010 Flatbed Scanner

Pros: Lots of scanner for the money. Prodigious resolution at near-microscopic levels.

Cons: Film-scanning feature completely (and most likely permanently) useless.

The Bottom Line: A great cheap scanner, but if you have Windows Vista, do not consider the film-scanning feature to be of any use in the reasonably foreseeable future.

Review: Mixed sentiments about this scanner: Plain-paper scanning is excellent for such a cheap machine. Default chroma saturation is a bit weak, but that can be easily adjusted at software level. Scans made at the uppermost resolutions are naturally slow, ...

Pros: Good scan quality, inexpensive, relatively easy to use

Cons: Software interface could be more user-friendly; large physical size

The Bottom Line: I recommend this to the casual user looking for an intuitive, easy-to-use scanner.

Review: Recently my company purchased me a Hewlett Packard Scanjet G3010 Flatbed Scanner for use in my office. My job requires that I archive documents on our networked hard drive, which means that I have to scan hard copy documents into .pdf form. I ...