I'm about to spend £100 on a new scanner and would like to hear your suggestions.

I will be using it mainly to archive printed photos and a few negatives. And DVD covers obviously.

I am leaning toward the CanoScan LiDE 600F but I can't find many reviews for it.

What do you think?

I have seen many people have good things toi say about Canon. I can't go there, sadly. I would buy either Epson or HP.

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Never used an Epson, but I have never used an HP I liked. Canon all the way.

Given HP's driver quality it is amazing you have managed to use an HP at all.

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Never had a problem here, lars.

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Consider yourself lucky.

Laser printer ment for office use delivered with "custom" driver installer by HP. No way to install the 98 (yes back when it mattered) driver on the NT server because it was the "wrong" operating system. That an NT server was perfectly capable of serving a 98 driver to 98 was apparently too complex a concept for the driver developers of HP. Why the BEEP they had to add a custom installer in the first place to break things I do not know.

Printerdriver for 6L which could show an animation of the printer being fed though the printer (pretty much taking up the full screen, as if printing was something interesting enough to require that level of feedback) but not able to print to file (which did matter back when memory was limited and building large print jobs could be problematic).

Printer driver for one of the modern wireless printer combo thingies asking me if I wanted to install the light or full version of their photo editing software in there 300MB driver install... well guess idiots, I do not want it at all. It's not like the included software is any better than what I already have.

24 bit scanner delivered with a driver only supporting 16 bit scanning under W2K (and W2K was the OS of choice for anyone but clueless home users at the time).

I remember a fight with a burner as well but not the details. Lucikily that one was just rebranded so skipping HP drivers solved it.

They do make excelent hardware though, so if you can get a setup where you run HP hardware though Microsoft drivers then by all means go for it. If they would just stop trying to "add value" with their drivers, then I guess I could start buying HP again - as it is now it's a definitely no-no for me.

I have an HP scanner and I have to adjust every single scan to get the colors right.  Stay away from HP.

I currently have a Canon CanoScan 4400F and it works very well. Have had several other Canons and an HP, while all worked fine, I prefer the Canons.