Combined input scanner and output scanner has a scanning carriage (20) adapted for scanning movement having a reading head (21) secured thereto for scanning a document (14) to produce a digital image and a printing head (25) secured thereto for relative movement with respect to a copy sheet (13) and electrically connected to the reading head for printing a digital image on a copy sheet. The reading head includes a solid state device (26) with input reading elements and the printing head includes a solid state device (27) with output printing elements, which devices are securely comounted in the same plane to the same planar substrate (52) in the scanning carriage.