I was looking around recently at getting some of my old pictures converted from 35mm negatives to digital. After looking at the pricing offered through both companies specializing in this and local camera shops/retail stores I was in awe at the prices they charged. The lowest price I found was $0.50/image and they charged around $5 for a CD and I’m not sure for a DVD. Even the person at the local camera store suggested I buy a scanner and do it myself since they had them starting at around $100.

Rather than adding another device to my work area, I opted to look around at replacing my 1 year old HP C5180 AiO. It’s a good printer/scanner with network and card reader support but it would be cheaper to sell it off with a stack of photo paper, etc. and just go for what I found to have what I was looking for, which included the 35mm negative scanner, card reader and network connectivity. I found the MP970.