Scanner

Although many different types of scanners are available — flatbed, sheet-fed, color, and black-and-white, just to name a few — they all perform the same function. The higher the resolution, the better the quality and the higher the detail of your digital image.

Also color depth can dramatically affect the appearance of your final scanned images and is the other criteria that will probably help you decide between those two or three different scanners on your shopping list.

Canon offers two types of flatbed scanners: CCD and CIS. CCD models mainly used for high resolution photo scanning and CIS models for document scanning. CanoScan 8800F is the best multipurpose scanner. Plustek's OpticBook 4600 is another good quality scanner for document scanning. For high qualty photo scanning Epson's Perfection V700 photo is the best option. Hewlett Packard Scanjet G3010 is for budget scanning.