The newest electronic advance is "scan to print," scan directly to a printer without any computer and especially without wasting time rescuing a scan with Photoshop. If you scan correctly to start with you don't need Photoshop to rescue any mistakes. Scanning directly to a printer saves all kinds of time.

A Minolta-QMS SC-210 scan-to-print system eliminates the expense of a copier machine.

Nicholas Hellmuth showing prints

The scanner is the copier. A QMS printer is certainly a better "copier" than any Xerox machine that most of us are used to from the 1980's. Today's laser printers can handle illustrations far better than even the best copier of the previous generation. Remember all the banding and white blotches anytime you attempted to copy photographs?

A competing model from Hewlett-Packard would be the HP color LaserJet 8550 mfp, multifunctional printer copier. However we have more experience with Minolta-QMS, Tally, and Lexmark color lasers. We found the QMS had the quality we needed for photo-realistic output. Lexmark and HP were originally made more for pie charts and bar charts for business reports.

The SC-210 replaces the earlier SC-200.

The QMS SC-110 scans in black and white to print on QMS 2060, 3260, 4060 and other models of black-and-white printers. The SC-110 replaces the earlier SC-100.

The QMS SC-210 digital copier/scanner scans and prints in full color on a QMS magicolor 2210, 6110 and other color laser printers. Price starts at $499 (you can hardly get a color copier for this price, much less an office workhorse as capable as a QMS printer).

Of course if you want to add text and create a newsletter or poster then you need to pass the image through your computer (and a program such as Adobe PageMaker, InDesign or QuarkXpress).

QMS is completely networkable too. QMS, qms.com, tel 1 (800) 523-2696.

Another kind of scan to print is wide format scanning to print. We cover wide format scanning and printing on another page.