Epson Perfection V500 Document Scanning
All-in-One printer/scanner/copier machines are all the rage at present, especially if you’re trying to run a home office or small business on a fairly limited budget. However, the frustration for dedicated amateur and semi-pro photographers is that most multi-function machines manage to do several tasks reasonably well but none of them to a high enough degree of excellence.
For this reason, a dedicated photo scanner or printer will always appeal to the keen snapper who demands high quality reproductions. Epson has been aware of this for some time and its Perfection Photo series has concentrated on meeting this need for those who don’t have huge amounts of money but have plenty of enthusiasm. (more…)
July 27, 2008
Cannon Scanfront 220 Document Scanning
Cheap desktop scanners are fine for the odd few documents here and there, but can’t be shared on a network or cope with the demands of a document management system. For that you’ll need something a lot more capable. Such as the ScanFront 220 from Canon, which can be attached directly to the LAN and used to capture up to 1,000 documents a day.
Unlike some network scanners, the ScanFront 220 isn’t very big. Indeed, at first glance it could easily be mistaken for a fax machine, with documents to be scanned loaded into a feeder at the top then spat out again into a tray below. (more…)
July 23, 2008
Fujitsu Scansnap - Document scanning
Technology is now advanced enough to have shrunk the traditional large-footprint scanner down to something that resembles the dimensions of a family-sized bar of Toblerone.
Fujitsu has come up with something different with the ScanSnap S300, though, which is allegedly the world’s smallest colour duplex ADF sheetfed scanner, and while not nearly as portable as manual feed models we’ve seen, it could be a good compromise of both. (more…)
July 22, 2008
Xerox Documate Document Scanning
There are scanners designed to transfer your photo prints to JPEGs, scanners designed to convert your transparencies to TIFFs and scanners whose sole purpose in life is to help create electronic records of paper documents.
Xerox’s DocuMate 262i falls firmly into the last of these categories. It can scan up to 38 pages per minute (ppm) single-sided or 76 sides per minute (spm) double-sided (duplex) and compile page images for electronic archival or convert them to editable text through OCR. (more…)
July 21, 2008
HP - Scanjet N8460 Document Scanning Review
Unlike most modern desktop scanners, which tend to be small and sleek, the Scanjet N8460 is a huge and far from elegant device. But then it’s made that way for a reason. The reason being that it’s designed to capture hundreds of documents a day, as part of a high volume document management system.
There are two components: a huge (legal size) 600dpi flatbed colour scanner with, on top, an equally large automatic document feeder (ADF). This can be loaded with up to 100 sheets at a time and will reliably handle a wide variety of paper types and weights. Jams can still occur, though, so there’s also an ultrasonic double-feed detector to let you know if more than one sheet starts to be pulled in at once. (more…)
July 20, 2008
Epson GT-1500 Document Scanning Review
Flatbed scanner mechanisms are best known as the top parts of all-in-one machines, but they do have lives of their own, too. Epson’s GT-1500 is a business scanner, as opposed to one intended for the home or for graphics professionals. It’s designed for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and archival, converting paper for digital storage.
This isn’t a bulky scanner; its dark grey and cream lines define a device that almost looks squashed, in comparison with previous models. This is due, in part, to its innovative use of an LED light source, rather than the fluorescent tube normally providing the light for scanning. (more…)
July 3, 2008
Document Sizes Scanned Scanning
There have been many standard sizes of paper at different times and in different countries, but today there are two widespread systems in use: the international standard (A4 and its siblings) and the North American sizes.
The international paper size standard, ISO 216, is based on the German DIN 476 standard for paper sizes. Using the metric system, the base format is a sheet of paper measuring 1 m² in area (A0 paper size). Successive paper sizes in the series A1, A2, A3, etc., are defined by halving the preceding paper size parallel to its shorter side. The most frequently used paper size is A4 (210 × 297 mm). An advantage is that every A4 sheet made from 80 grams (per square meter, that is A0) paper weighs 5 grams, allowing to know the weight - and associated postage rate - by just counting the number of sheets used if the weight of the envelope is known. (more…)
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