Q: Which are compatible with Mac? I have checked the Mac site but the list of compatible printers is endless. I want a good quality one that is reasonably quick & that doesn't drink ink! Preferably with several colour cartridges. Also am I right in thinking that a scanner will 'scan' non-digital photos & transfer them to my Mac? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
A: I have the HP C4180 which is a combined inkjet printer and scanner / copier, it will copy a photo to paper on it's own or scan directly to the computer, also has a number of slots for digital camera memory cards which you can also access directly from the computer, or print photos directly from using the printer. Runs great on my iMac with Tiger! Oh and yes, you can scan anything that will fit on the A4 scan glass, including photographs, text documents (it will do a very good job of translating it to a text document too if you want), pictures, magazine articles... sometimes you need to spend a bit of time tweaking the colour balance or brightness etc, but all scanners are like that.