How much does it slow up your computer when running a scan and when not running a scan?
894311
Scans are automatically set to run when you are not on the computer at night. You can manually set them for whenever you want and click a scan button for any time. It does extremely slow it down and that is why you would want it to run when you are asleep.
1817578
NO> NO> NO> that is why this scanner sucks. it does continuous mode, NOT auto mode.
1999178
Never had to try it, but you would still have to hold down the scan button...there is a way to automatic scan, but we don't use it for our purposes.
2204444
At an estimated 200 dpi and up (it doesn't actually let you know how high it goes, another limitation as far as I'm concerned), it actually scans at a moderate rate, not too fast and not too slow. Trouble is, I've relied on it for for crisp scans at 200 dpi and up, and it just doesn't do it very well. It wouldn't bother me if the sources were not the greatest resolution to start with, but they are, and the scanner just doesn't do them justice even at the highest resolution.
967190
Just for kicks and grins I scanned negatives and slides at the maximum resolution and I estimate the process took about 10-15 per. I also found out that scanning at the highest resolution created files so large (some as big as 600MB) that even though I have a fairly high performance PC, (Core i7, 12GB of RAM), the files were so big I couldn't open them. I dropped down to around 2400-4800 DPI and found the files created about 1.2MB or so. I also scanned files on my MBP with 4GB of RAM and it also created files too large to open and in a few cases it even crashed. I decided the 4800 DPI range was more than sufficient for scanning for my purposes which is to burn all these treasured slides and negatives to disk and give them to family so they can enjoy them too. If you are a professional photographer or designer and you need the max resolution you will need a box with the highest performing hardware you can buy and that will be commensurate with the price. Bottom line: Test various resolutions and see what works for your purposes. I read MANY of the reviews of this scanner before I bought it and decided it would work perform the job I needed it to do and it has performed admirably.
565679
Hi Phoebe - I don't know that actual scan speed but I can tell you that we use the scanner in a semi industrial setting where we will rapidly scan over 100 items per minute without a miss as long as the items and the scanner are properly oriented to each other - We are VERY pleased with this scanner - we purchased 10 with no failures reported in over a year's use and continuous use. -R. Smith
357846
I have never used the scan feature on my printer, so I cannot answer you Question
239151
I haven't timed it, but I suppose that after it's warmed up ( a short time) it's thirty seconds or so per photo. The bulk of the time involved in scanning a group of photos it not the time for each one to be scanned, but the time between scans. That depends on how quickly you can change the original and click on "go".
586132
I don't think there is a difference, I do know this is a great scan tool with amazing capability for the price. You will need to update it right away as the have often update releases.
618274
Well its not very good for being a "scanner" - is the scan rate/continue is very slow and buggy. But you do it by holding down the VM/scan button for 2.5s - hitting the menu button clears the scan mode and in the software you designat e an S for channels you want skipped during scan - there is no lock out.
185965
Not at all. After owning mine for a week I was trying to get rid of it. It's so slow I can barely surf the internet. It sometimes takes minutes to load a textual page. Stay away from this computer
1430483
The DS is a manually fed scanner. I have not really timed it but I would say that you could scan 2 to 3 pages per minute. The nice thing about the DS is that you can scan multiple documents to the same pdf file. If you are going to scan a lot of papers you may want to consider a pricier auto feed scanner. I like this one for scanning occasional bills and receipts.
2251379
I leave it on the 3 minutes setting . That way the files are kept small enough to manage and if you need to locate something it only takes 3 minute scan a file.
974220
I timed it with a stopwatch. Once it warmed up, it took 10 seconds to scan a grayscale document at 300dpi using the flatbed scanner (not the document feeder). I scanned it directly into Adobe Acrobat Pro X. It took 26 seconds to scan a color page at 300dpi. Every 12-15 or so scans, it stops to warm up, which only takes a few seconds.
1520580
No. Scanner is marginal and only scans single pages. Scanner is in the trash.
1585190
No, it sends the scan to the computer, then you can print the copy. Kind of a slow process.
819312
That really depends on what exactly you are editing. All I can tell you is that in a residential environment I have copied about 130GB of large files in around 45 minutes, which is around 48 MBps (probably close to external hard drive max transfer speed). This shows the CPU usage jump to 35-40%. I don't know if this helps answering your question.