Recommend a scanner

I have a Visioneer 9220. The specs are fine. It processes slides and negatives. The results were pretty good for my tastes.
However, the Visioneer 9220 is a dog as far as problems/downtime. So I want to replace it.
My needs are definitely amateur. I really only want to copy/print b&w documents, color photos at small sizes and convert 35mm slides and negatives to photos.
Price is somewhat of a factor. I do not need something of professional quality.
Can you make a recommendation?
P.S. I see a lot of the printers now offer print/copy/scan/fax. Are they the best way to go? I have an HP 7760 printer. Works fine. No need to replace it unless the best way to get a scanner is to get one of the newer print/copy/scan/fax jobs.

 

Hi Jim,

FWIW: I bought a 922 AIO from Dell http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/printer?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs

http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/print_922?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs the one I have and on sale now.

The scanning quality is excellent - scanning in documents at varying quality, depending on what it is and like you, photographs. How it would handle slides, I don't know. The max DPI is 300 for color or BW.

I do have another printer on the System, a very basic Epson which I keep in reserve.

Regards - Charles

 

This is personal preference but I stay from all in one printer/scanner/fax units.

I don't need the fax as the 56k modem in my machine does it just fine. (I use DSL for internet, modem is just for fax)

My view on this is that if my printer and scanner are seperate and one goes out I still have the other. With the all in ones if something goes out ya loose everything.