Xerox - 7600 review
When Canon first introduced its LIDE flatbed scanners, they were the only devices on the market to be USB powered and ultra-slim. Then Xerox brought out its 7400 model, with a similar design to the LIDE. Now the Xerox 7600 is the latest in the range and is being marketed as a photo scanner for the SOHO market.
This doesn’t really match what the 7600 is. It’s a slim, A4 flatbed scanner, without a backlight in the lid and with a maximum optical resolution of 1,200ppi. This means there’s no way you can use it to scan transparencies or photo negatives, which need a higher resolution and illumination from behind. That just leaves photographic prints, and while the scanner is quite capable of scanning these, so is just about every other scanner sold for use in the home.
What you actually have in the Xerox 7600 is a general-purpose document and print scanner, which is easy to set up as it needs no external power. It draws everything it needs from its single USB connection, though this is rather oddly positioned at the front end of the scanner’s right-hand side. Since one of the main advantages of the 7600 is its single cable, why not make the most of it and connect it at the rear?