Hewlett Packard C6275A ScanJet 6250Cxi Color Scanner Review

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(More customer reviews)The HP 6200 and 6250 are somewhere near the top of HP's consumer / small office scanner line. They feature both SCSI and USB connections, though you cannot use both at once, as you might want to if you share the scanner between two computers.
Among the better points of the package is the Precision Scan Pro software that is included. I liked the fact that it allows you to set the desired final image size independent of the source size. This allows you to create images at the scanning stage that are appropriate for viewing either on screen or on paper. This kind of scaling is done optically rather than digitally, resulting in a smoother and more professional result.
Like other HP scanners I've experienced, the 6250 doesn't really like sharing the same SCSI chain with other devices. I found that I constantly had to reinstall it, change the SCSI device number, and fiddle with the order of other devices on the chain. Which brings up the subject of HP support. The support is not toll-free, and if you have owned the scanner more than three months you have to pay for both the call and the support, which is often patronizing and a little curt.
Once the scanner is set up and working, however, it works well, and the image quality is very good indeed, though I did read one terrible review of it. Scanning speed is good, especially in SCSI mode. And the PrecisionScan Pro software allows you to save your scan in just about any file format you might want. Uniquely, the software also allows you to scan an entire page and save the various text and picture elements separately, with text being OCR'd and placed with pictures in a re-creation of the original layout. Needless to say, this kind of very complicated automation is not without problems.
The slide adapter is only fair, being a prism that sits on top of the scanning bed. If 35mm slides are going to be a regular scanning source, one of the UMAX scanners with its slide-out drawer might be a better choice.
All in all, I'd recommend the 6250 (with document sheet feeder) or 6200C (without feeder) for someone with more than casual requirements for scanning.

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Scanning multiple pages is a breeze with the HP ScanJet 6250C Professional Series Color Scanner with its integrated automatic document feeder.The HP ScanJet 6250C series offers the same functionality of the HP ScanJet 6200C series, plus an integrated automatic document feeder. Busy professionals like you told that automatic document feeders save precious time. And they stressed the importance of getting the document feeder at the time of the scanner purchase.

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