HP Scanjet G3110

Product Survey: Scanners

The G3110 first piqued our interest because of some very negative comments on HP's own forum. The three users to post comments were so negative that we became suspicious--perhaps it was some not-so-subtle negative publicity from a competitor? Well, we were right to be dubious: although it's far from an exceptional scanner, the G3110 is a perfectly reasonable model for this price bracket, and is nothing like as bad as the comments on HP's site suggest. So, the moral of the story is: don't believe everything you read that's been written anonymously online--not everybody has good intentions! Just to give you an idea, we'll give you a little flavour of what was said in case HP decides to tidy up the page in question. One unhappy user complains of a 'dreadfully slow' scanner with 'blurry results'. Another says that 'everything it did made Vista' crash, something we didn't find at all when we tested in with Windows Vista. The third commentator, who also give the scanner a rating of 1/5, was just as insistent that this scanner was slow and bad at digitising negatives. The only part of that that's true is that HP hasn't managed to produce a good negative scanner. If that's what you need to do, look elsewhere, as it really isn't the G3110's strong point.