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Do any home user multifunction printer / scanners support duplex scanning, and must support long page scanning?

Features I'm looking for in a scanner are:

  • Duplex scanning (scan's both sides)
  • ADF (Document feeder allowing a stack of documents)
  • Long page scanning (legal sized documents or very long receipts)
  • Good quality for pictures

The printer side isn't as important, and in fact if there was a good scanner that did the above well I could do without the printer. I'm not looking for an office printer.

[UPDATE]

I never really got a good answer here for a printer that supported all of these things. I just purchased a Canon PIXMA MX860 is supports duplex, has ADF and looks like it will do okay with pictures. It supports up to 8.5" x 14" for scanning, and I'll have to play around with it to see if I can get it to scan things longer such as receipts.

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@zimmer62: Super User isn't a shopping site. because questions will be around for a while, budgetary considerations aren't very interesting (prices change too much over time). we can suggest products that fit a set of feature requirements, but budgets are offtopic here. – quack quixote May 4 '10 at 21:42
Thanks, I removed the budget suggestions from this. I added that I'm not looking for an office printer (Since they are in a totally different class and people usually don't buy them for home due to cost) – zimmer62 May 5 '10 at 18:57
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Edit based on comments.

I cannot comment for sure about large format documents, but I have just seen that Lexmark have released a whole new range of products the do all your other requirements - and very affordable (although, no idea on cost of ink!).

Link to Lexmark Pro Range

Please note, this is the UK product page - you will have to find a local shop yourself.

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ignore the budgetary concerns, please. if you found specific models that fit the technical requirements, go ahead and list them. – quack quixote May 4 '10 at 21:44
@quack quixote - Editing in a minute - I have had A LOT of work on recently and not really had the time to be on the site much... Didn't know - Congrats on becoming a mod... and the new name! – William Hilsum May 4 '10 at 23:12
wondered why i hadn't seen you as often. thanks. (still miss my ~ sometimes ...) :) – quack quixote May 5 '10 at 0:02
I checked out those lexmark scanners, they look like they are pretty close to what I need, however they won't do long document scanning from what I can tell. There was a maximum scan size in the manuals I looked at. – zimmer62 May 7 '10 at 14:56
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