Why not just buy a decent all in one printer/scanner/fax/copier for much less?

Any recommendations/good to great values?

Purchased a Canon Pixma MX Series All-In-One from Costco for a little over $100 on sale. Great photo output and can replace individual ink cartridges instead of 1 cartridge containing all colors. Good optical resolution on the scanner for office needs, scanning documents into PDF format, faxes, etc. Scanner interface is easy to use. Printer can auto-duplex too which is nice for multi-page documents.

Epson makes nice printers & scanners too. Good luck.

We have a pixma at home. Good printer, no doubt.

95% of my current scanning will just be documents to attach to emails. Occasional photos where high detail isn't critical. Not ready to even think about going "paperless". Just sick of having to get my secretary to do it for me all the time in her office and then waiting for her email it to me.

Beck has a Fujitsu scansnap S1500 scanner at the office. It's great. She loves how fast it scans (one or both sides). Highly recommend it.

Eric

I bought this a few years ago to scan in THOUSANDS of old slides from the family archive.

I don't know much about scanners, but it did a great job and was pretty simple to use (for this extensive project).

Same scanner I have and if you need serious document scanning, it's the way to go. Includes Acrobat so consider that when you look at the (relatively high) cost.