I've finally become comfortable with Photoshop (5.02) and would like to invest in a negative scanner and printer. I have USB ports and intend to print 8x10's. What do I really need? What are the top brands? I would appreciate any advice or direction to good sources on these topics. Thanx.

-- Joel Kirsch (Jakk1@Mindspring.com), April 25, 1999

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Hi, There are some excellent reviews and reccomendations on the following web site devoted to digital photography techniques: http://come.to/digitaldarkroom In short, most folks there are professionals and prefer Epson printers to HP. For a scanner, most use either the Nikon LS-2000 or the HP Photosmart.The HP is lots cheaper but not quite as good. A superb buy though. Regards, Howard

-- Howard (hposner1@swarthmore.edu), April 25, 1999.

I'll second Howard's comments on the scanners - We've reviewed a number, the HP does very well at the low end of the price range, the Nikon LS-2000 and Minolta Dimage Scan Speed at the high end are great. We're about to review HP's update of their unit, with USB interface in a few weeks (hopefully sooner than that, but I'm slowly learning how much longer everything takes than I think it should!)

-- Dave Etchells (detchells@imaging-resource.com), April 29, 1999.