folivier wrote:
We keep an HP M15W laser printer in our coach, very small but it is a printer only. Scan and copy works surprisingly well using your phone to take a picture then send it wirelessly to the printer.
Correct, that is why I recommended the HP M29W which is the "twin" to the M15W in size other than the extra bit of added size for the built in scanner on top..
Phones do take a decent pix but they have a lot of limitations like getting the phone camera lined up straight and true enough to not skew/angle the picture of the paper you are taking.. Not to mention holding the phone still enough to not blur or move away from the paper.. Getting even lighting across the entire paper can be a challenge and often phone cameras like dedicated cameras will have shadows across the photo without proper lighting.
A scanner since it has it's own light source will properly light the entire document evenly and the paper will lay flat and even.
Scanners do have their place and a phone camera sometimes just can't do as good of a job of a scanner.
I own them all, a bed scanner, a phone with a pretty good camera and a handful of standalone cameras up to 15 MP and yet always get the best scan in digital copy via the bed scanner and it is very quick. All without the need to position, re-position, hold breath take a bunch of photos and chose the least blurry.
So when quality of the digital copy of a piece of paper or even a photo print it is hard to beat the ease, speed and quality of a dedicated document scanner.
