Canon BJC-55 Color Bubble Jet Printer Review

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(More customer reviews)On the go, I frequently need to print out documents, be it invoices, reciepts, e-mails, etc etc so I decided to purchase this product. Words cannot describe my feelings toward it, I use it soo much with the laptops I don't know how I lived without one before. Installation on Windows 2k, and ME was flawless, both using the Fast IrDA.
The printer is just the perfect size to slide in to my briefcase, and adds little weight. It's battery operation is really what caught my eye, it says you can print about 100 pages with a full charge, but I think its a bit less than that. However, the battery takes little time to charge.
I was not aware it would come with as much ink as it did, came with 2 color cartidges, 1 black (small), and 1 black (large), as well as two trays that they are held in. The Fast IrDA is such a fabulous thing, wireless printing all the way. I decided to purchase a USB cable, its much easier some times using the cable then the IrDA (Infared) port. The quality of the documents is fantastic, matching (and beating!) my desktop printers at home. The speed is good, considering this is a portable printer. The only real drawback is that it is a single sheet feed printer, unless you buy the paper loader, which I will surely do! This is THE BEST portable printer I've found on the market, it is well worth the money.
This is a small update, I've been using the printer for about 5 months now, and everything has gone smoothly. I purchased the auto-sheet feeder from Canon (directly, from their web site) and it performs just like a normal desktop printer would! I'm still loving it.

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Lightweight design and wireless connectivity allow you to take the Canon BJC-55 Color Bubble Jet printer anywhere you go. Weighing in at just over 2 pounds, the compact BJC-55 is fully portable. Use the built-in Fast IrDA for convenient wireless printing or the USB port for quick and easy connection to both Mac and PC systems. The BJC-55 runs on the long-life lithium-ion battery and allows you to print up to 100 pages before recharging.
The BJC-55 provides desktop-quality printing at 5.5 pages per minute (2 ppm color). It handles several types of paper, including legal, A4, European, and also envelopes. At 720 x 360 dpi, it produces sharp lines and crisp color. Optional photo ink can be added for printing high-quality photos. Other options include a 100-sheet automatic feeder and the IS-12 Color Image Scanner cartridge so you can use your printer as a color sheetfed scanner.
The Canon BJC-55 includes a CD-ROM, printer drivers, and user's guide. --Emily Bakko

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Visioneer xdm2625d-wu Documate 262 48-BIT Adf Duplex Review

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(More customer reviews)It worked for a little while with only one paper jam per 3 scans. Now it is almost every single scan when a piece of paper jams. There is no rhyme or reason behind the paper jams (or at least I can find no pattern). I called Customer Support (which is only open until 4 PM PT) and they suggested replacing the Snap-In pad module and updating to the latest drivers. Done and done. No change. Now I need to go through the process of returning the scanner.
When it worked, it was amazing. The problem has always been that I cannot leave the scanner alone due to the high potential of paper jams. Also, when the paper jams occur, the scanner easily feeds all the papers waiting to be scanned through the scanner. Why can it not do that the first, second, third or tenth time, and have the paper scanned and not jammed?
Also, it appears that the Kofax software is simply trial software. Why include such a nice product without stating it is trial software? Why include it at all?
Lastly, and maybe the most frustrating, when paper jams, there is no way to recover the pages which have already been scanned; consequently, the entire scan needs to be redone--but of course, it will result in a paper jam 100% of the time. Yes, when the scanner jams once, it will jam again with the same papers to be scanned 100% of the time, no matter how many ways I change the way the paper is scanned.
I will return to this review when the return process is over and update it.
OK, it is May 16, 2006 and I have gone through the process of returning my scanner and getting a new one from Xerox. I change my mind and give this product 5 STARS!
So I told you I would be back to review this item after returning it and seeing how the new DM262 works.
I went to a UPS Store and had them pack and ship the scanner. It was received by Xerox on a Wednesday and I received back a new scanner (they do not have any refurbished models for this scanner, Customer Service said) on Friday of the same week. Amazingly fast.
The new scanner has no problems scanning. In fact, I missed taking out a staple from one stack of papers and an error was registered with the scanner, but it just kept scanning and pushing through the papers. In about 30-40 minutes of scanning (that is, me loading and unloading the scanner and the scanner scanning), I scanned more than 1,000 pages.
Also, I called Customer Service and they told me that the Kofax Software is not the trial--it is the full product and will not expire.
Every time I have called Customer Service, they have been respectful and helpful.
For all the above, I have changed my mind on the DM262 scanner.

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HP Scanjet N9120 Document Flatbed Scanner Review

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(More customer reviews)I'm exceedingly happy with this, my 6th scanner purchase. I've come from a long line of almosts and nearly-theres with my previous scanners, at least when it comes to speed, capacity and ease of use. My first few scanners were the cheap, single-user type, not possessing ADFs for any real business use. Those were followed by an HP Scanjet 8290, which was fairly good, but suffered from too many ADF misfeeds. Next came a Fujitsu fi-5220C, which was faster and more competent at ADF work, but much less user-friendly, and more laborious in its required user input per scan.
Now, at last, I can say I'm almost perfectly happy with a scanner. This N9120 is incredibly fast, creates high-quality images (especially with the included Kofax VRS, which hardly seems to slow things down at all), is terrifically easy to use (including HP's software interface), has adequately capacious in-and-out bins, and looks great as a physical object.
Here are the minor quibbles (and they're not deal-breakers; I'd buy this again if I were in a situation that was appropriate): (1) It's quite loud for a scanner, requiring high-speed fans to cool its internal parts (think of the sound of a truly enormous copy machine in the copier room of a large place of business; that's what this sounds like). (2) It's enormous - be prepared to need far more desk/table space for it than you imagine. (3) It's incredibly heavy and unwieldy, so plan on having two people to unpack it and place it on a table. (4) If you forgo the excellence of Kofax and opt instead for sheer speed in a scan of a large number of pages, you can turn them sideways (that's how big this thing is) ----- BUT there can be a startling number of misfeeds when you do that. My very first scan of an 80-page stack that I inserted sideways resulted in 3 misfeeds - and it's somewhat hard to tell which of the last few pages were and were not successfully scanned. But going a little slower, inserting them in portrait fashion and using Kofax - no misfeeds at all. And finally, (5) It's size and weight mean that, just like any other serious office machine, you'll have to call for a service visit if it breaks down, rather than sending it in somewhere. And from browsing HP's site, it is truly expensive to have a tech come out to service it.

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Canon MF6590 Copier/Scanner/Printer/Fax DUPLEX/NETWORK w/NEW 106 Toner Review

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(More customer reviews)I have a small office and work from home as a data analyst. My job revolves around printing and scanning a vast amount of data. The Canon 6590 is very easy to install and configure. The unit is very fast printing (24ppm b&w) and scanning (20ppm??). It has a very quick warmup time and fits nicely next to my two monitors and keyboards. The unit comes with a very reliable 128 MB which allows me to add up many different jobs at once, and the printer is able to handle them all very well and without crashing, which is an issue to many other laser printers with lower memory. The paper handling is convenient because it provides with a large capacity. The autofeeding mechanisms are also well polished and I never experienced a paper jam perse, only false alarm paper jams. The only issue with this printer is that it does not provide color printing for its price range.

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Brother HL-5370DWT Laser Printer with Wireless Networking, Duplex and Dual Paper Trays Review

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(More customer reviews)I've been using HP stuff since the first scientific calculator, the HP-32, that came out in 1973. It used to be rock solid, designed by engineers to be used by engineers. Sadly, it's now cheap junk. The scanners in HP's all-in-one's seemed designed to fail in the thirteenth month after purchase.
Some of HP's recent printers do not even implement their own Printer Control Language properly (HP PCL).
This Brother printer works. It implements PCL5 correctly, as well as its emulation of PostScript. I've networked computers for fifteen years, so setup went very easily. The hardest part was hauling the CD-ROM to the various computers on the network, since Windows did not have the driver built in. A no-brainer.
The supplies work out to 1.4 cents a page (toner and drum). Hard to beat that.

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Kodak Scan Station 500 Duplex Scanner (8738056) Review

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(More customer reviews)We have used a Scan Station 100 Plus for a few years, and when we wanted an additional unit ordered the Scan Station 500 (ss500) instead. A very preliminary review, but what you are buying here is a world class paper feeder, attached to a pc with a touch screen, that does OCR and outputs ready to use, searchable PDF files.Another reviewer mentioned that directories cannot be browsed, this is not an oversight. The design goal (for better or worse) is something that an administrator can deploy on a corporate network without compromising network security. What's cool is that 10 people can walk up and drop scans directly into 10 different directories, and that the confidential/protected directories for the CEO are available on walk up, but not compromised to other users. The strength and limitation of this unit is that it is designed for enterprise use, with a high priority on security, HIPPA, PCI DSS, etc.
Set up has a little bit of the "IT Sys Admin" feel, and absolutely requires a PC. Once configured, the basic interface is an ethernet connection to shared storage, and/or a USB key.The ss500 office-user fast at OCR (not industrial speed). Image quality is very good (for a sheet fed scanner). The latest upgrade to the software rotates documents so that they are saved as PDFs with the top at the top even if fed up-side-down.

RAM: I'd love to be able to upgrade its 1gb RAM to 3gb. (Uses XP.) I'm using the attached flatbed, which is a nice extra and produces much higher resolution scans.
EXTERNAL KEYBOARD: Kodak doesn't say this for some reason, but you can attach a USB keyboard to this. The touch screen is fine, but being able to type a file name with a real keyboard is *much* faster. If all goes well, I may come back an give this a 5, but for now 4 stars.
COMPARISION WITH SCAN SNAP: I Have also used/own a ScanSnap S510. The Scan Snap a great unit, but because it is directly attached via USB to a single workstation, and requires drivers and special software be loaded onto that workstation, a USB-direct-attached scanner really becomes essentially tethered to a single workstation. (And for the Scan Snap) Adobe Acrobat gets activated to *that* workstation, and over-writes any existing acrobat installation -- it overwrote my Acrobat Professional with the less expensive, less powerful Acrobat Standard. The paper feed on the Kodak is also much better, bigger, heavier, and more serviceable. Jams are such a annoyance that they justify a large part of the price difference - sheet feeding on the Scan Snap is very good; sheet feeding on the Kodak is really great.
MACINTOSH: If you have more than one user, or need scans for both Mac and PC, then getting your scan output as a PDF file on a network drive and/or USB key means that scans can very quickly get used by any computer.
COST: The cost of a network scanner is 5 times the cost of a USB attached scanner. If you are a one-person operation or office, then the business case is harder to make. On the other hand, if what ends up happening is that you dedicate a workstation to the scanner anyhow, the Kodak makes huge sense. It a refined, flexible, and secure approach to a shared scanning.

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HP N8460 Scanjet Document Flatbed Scanner Review

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(More customer reviews)Pros: The scanner is wonderful. The surprise was that the auto-document feeder does not flip the page to scan both sides. The scanner has a second scan bar in the feeder to simultaniously scan both sides on one pass. Fast. Software is not half bad.
Cons: The scanner is BIG! But what do you expect for being able to hold 100 sheets in the tray. Does not directly interface to a network. Scanner must be connected to a PC vis USB.


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Visioneer One Touch 9000 USB Scanner Review

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(More customer reviews)This is my third scanner, the first one I got in maybe 1995, then one again in maybe 1999.
Finally scanning is not a chore, it is amazing how fast this thing is. With my older scanners it could take a couple minutes to scan and my computer would often get messed up. This thing scans in seconds, seconds!
Just make sure you have a USB 2 port (if not you can get an expansion card for pretty cheap) and you're ready to go.
This scanner is so cheap too, the older model ones (8920) that aren't USB 2.0 are actually more expensive if you buy from a brick and mortar retailer.
The only thing I don't like about it is during setup they make you register electronically with the software maker, and that software maker will try to sign you up for some "Free offers" and it seems some scumware too. But just check no.

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Plustek Opticbook 3600 A4 Book Edge Scanner Pdf Conversion Review

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(More customer reviews)I was a big fan of this scanner until recently.
It scans books fast without damaging spines.
I used it very carefully.
I used another scanner of mine for non-book materials, because I didn't want to waste the lamp life.
The result? The lamp died after around 200 scans!
I used it intermittently, so I was out of warranty when the lamp died.
I've used scanners of several manufacturers, and this is the first time that a scanner lamp died on me.
In sum, $300 for 200 scans is not recommendable at all.
Added: I got another reason to hate this scanner. Service of the company is horrible. I sent several emails about my problem, but never got answers.

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DS687 Duplex A6 Id Card Scanner Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought this for duplex scanning of insurance cards. The calibration sheet was too big and I had to cut it down to size. The duplex only works only if you use Ambir's program - which didn't register with XP as a default scanner. Ambir's program worked but didn't seem well integrated with the OS. Also the Duplex scan produced two files (one for front, one for back) - I wanted a single file with front and back!
Unfortunately I had to use another standard scanner driver with my software and it didn't support the duplex scan (even when I selected duplex mode) - defeating the entire point of getting a duplex scanner.
I think the hardware is a nice package and seems well built, but the Dulpex software support is another story.

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Canon DR-2080C Color Document Scanner Review

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(More customer reviews)This unit is small and compact, yet has some very nice features. I especially like the duplexing feature allowing it to scan BOTH sides in the same pass, no flipping a stack of documents over. It works from within Adobe, and Microsoft Office Imaging.
It does have a drawback, however, the drivers are not Windows XP, and it can be a bit disconcerting installing them. I finished the installation with no adverse affects (that I noticed) to my 2 laptops, and a stand alone machine.
If you travel and need a high speed scanner, I highly recommend this unit.

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A compact scanner from Canon, the DR-2080 provides high quality color scans and fits onto nearly any convenient surface. A 24-bit color depth provides brilliant colors, while a 600 x 600 dpi maximum resolution ensures that even the fine print is clear and legible.
The DR-2080C connects to a host computer via either a USB 2.0 or SCSI-II port, and supports Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP, and NT operating systems. Able to handle originals up to 8.5 by 14 inches, the DR-2080C still has a very small 11.7-by-3.89-inch footprint, freeing up valuable desktop space for other uses, while a weight of just 5.5 makes transportation a snap.
The included Canon CapturePerfect software provides a quick and easy editing tool for your scans, and sports a scan-to-email feature that lets you send originals directly from the scanner. Optical character recognition allows you to easily create searchable text files out of your scans, while a pre-scan feature lets users adjust scan settings on one page, then apply those settings to an entire batch scan.
Scanning speeds in simplex mode are as fast as 20 ppm, while duplex mode supports speeds of up to 40 ppm. The automatic document feeder lets you scan up to 50 pages with the touch of a button and supports originals of up to 0.2 mm in thickness. The DR-2080C also comes backed with a one year limited warranty.
What's in the BoxScanner with document feeding system, AC power, cable, software CD-ROM, setup instructions, warranty

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Pad Assembly for Scansnap FI-5110EOX Or 5110C Review

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(More customer reviews)This with the pick roller got the scanner back to picking only one sheet at a time. I wish it had lasted longer than a year but I'd been warned that they wouldn't. I took off a star for longevity but they do help keep the Scansnap humming along.


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Fujitsu ScanSnap N1800 - Document scanner - Duplex - 216 x 3048 mm - 600 dpi x 600 dpi - up to 20 ppm (mono) / up to 20 ppm (color) - ADF ( 50 sheets ) - 10Base-T/100Base-TX Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a sophisticated network scanner capable of providing scanning and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) independtly of a PC.
But.... The Optical Character Recognition (which creates a searchable PDF) is quite slow... In my test it was between 30 seconds and a minute per page. Of course, this speed will vary with the complexity of the page.
Since this scanner works independtly of a PC, while it is performing OCR on a scanned document, it can do nothing else. The result is that if you use this scanner for any significant amount of scanning, you will be waiting many minutes between each scanned document while the OCR process is performed.

The much lower priced ScanSnap S1500 uses OCR that runs on a PC. Since even a low end PC can run OCR faster than the N1800, the lower priced S1500 is likely a better option for many people.

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DOCUMATE162 Color 600DPI Adf Dplx 25PPM 50IPM 9 One Touchbtns Review

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(More customer reviews)I had it for about 2 mos and it works very well.
Compatable w Windows 7 and had not jamed once!


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Visioneer Strobe XP 450 PDF Hi-Speed Businees Scanner with 600 DPI USB ADF and One Touch Technology (SXP4501D-WU) Review

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(More customer reviews)I've reviewed and used many scanners over the years. Each is inevitably a compromise. However, the Strobe XP450 is by far the best that I've tried so far in its price range. It's fast. relatively resistant to jamming, easy to set up, and has less skewing than most automatic sheet feeders. It's also very compact and reliable. Highly recommended. I use it in a law office setting and it's been one of the major reasons that I have been able to move away from paper based files toward a much more efficient digital law office.

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Visioneer Strobe XP 450 USB Sheetfed ADF scanner for Windows, 600 x 1200 dpi, 48-bit color (output), Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interface. Built-in 50 page ADF, 20 pages per minute (20 ppm @ 200 dpi). TWAIN Driver & WIA Driver (XP)

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HP Scanjet N6350 Network Fltbd Scanner Us,ca,mx,la (no Ar,cl,br)-en,es,fr Review

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(More customer reviews)Purchased it on the basis that it appeared to be a network scanner - that is, a scanner with adequate built in functionality to perform scans save as pdf or image files and send them to a file server or an email client...
Unfortunately not - it is dependent on a PC driving the scanner so, at its price, it is woefully inadequate.
It does an adequate job of scanning - as long as you have a decently powerful PC driving it


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IPEVO Point 2 View USB Camera Review

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(More customer reviews)Got this for my classroom after seeing it used with an ipad. Setup is very easy and resolution was as good or better than the ELMO document readers used at school. Also highly recommended for teachers sharing specific book pages or excerpts, anchor writing work, and images from an individual book. And those beetles on a screen or smartboard!

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