What is the quality of the scanner? I have an old MFC8860 and the scanner is terrible. AS well the feeder for copying does and never has worked well. Is this machine a step up or is the scanner quality poor? How's feeding multiple pages for copying...
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i have owned MFC8910DW for 3 months now and am very pleased with the scanning performance. the scanning is very quick, and the feeder works great for multiple pages, either for one side or dual side. the scan rate slows down if you want higher resolution or color, but for my general purpose application where text is of interest, the rate is very quick (dont remember the DPI, 150x150 i think). the iphone app works very well too, the only complaint i have is that the app does not have option for dual page. the wireless works flawlessly as well. in general, i am very happy with this printer.
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It does have a document feeder, not sure how many pages it will handle at one time. Not related to scanning, I do have problems with the paper feed feeding multiple (sometimes up to five pages at a time) when printing though, this is very problematic if you have a limited amount of paper (ie, specialty paper).
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When scanning are you running it through the document feeder or scanning from the glass? As regards scanning to other PCs are the units you are trying to scan to all connected via a network?
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Yes, I recommend it. I've had four different scanners. This is by far the best, light, multiple resolution settings, color or b/w. I love this one.
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Thank you for your quick reply. What about the MF4690? I posted a similar question regarding that one. It seems much newer. Does it happen to have a function that somehow supports duplex scanning, without having to *manually* re-order the pages?
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No. The scans are low-quality. It doesn't even do a decent job with print. The color is not accurate in scanning or in printing. Go with a different model.
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I have another model Canon printer that I just purchased new. I did this on this one. I haven't had it long enough to run out of ink, but if this works it makes Canon the best printer to buy. I may upgrade to a better canon.I had an HP. It was an older HP AIO with no monitors on it. I think HP sent a code to all the old ones to disable everything but the printer as my scanner no longer works no matter what I do. I googled it, and there are tons of people who've posted the same exact problem with odler HP printers.
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It doesn't do well with glossy paper/photos. I tried to scan about 50 photos and it would start to skip and make some interesting images. IMHO, you'd want a flatbed scanner for best results.
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JonW - To be honest, I never ended up making the purchase due to the fact that my wife gave birth to our first children, twins...and my "spare" time has all but vanished, at least for the last year. I will always have the need though so I appreciate F. Rush's insights, they are helpful as I do intend to purchase a scanner in the future. I have had my eyes on the 9000f since its release and if I were making this purchase right now that is likely the direction I would go. I wish you luck in deciding and please keep me updated with your choice and feedback.
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I just received my Canoscan 8800F a few days ago....I'm impressed with the medium format aspect of scanner. The only problem is the huge file it creates when you try to get the photo as close of the film medium format quality as possible (25mb file)
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Scanning should be independent from printing so it shouldn't be a problem as long as you are running on Windows 7 or earlier. Window's 8 might be a problem. Hope this helps
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To be sure I understand your question, do you mean, does the scanner scan many pages from the feeder bin? Yes it does and it works great! I love it!
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There is nothing wrong with the scanner. It is your printer. Set it at a better resolution. Or try wipe the front of cartiage clean.
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I still don't know whether the old problem has been corrected on any of the newer canon models. I ultimately decided to get a 700 for the office, since I need best-quality text printing for my professional correspondence. My old 600 and 610 I'd bought hoping to get good-quality scans, and frankly was somewhat disappointed. Since I rarely print photos, but very much want to be able to digitize old terrific family and travel photographs, I bought a dedicated Canon scanner which is FABULOUS for my partner (CanonScan 8800F). Consumer Reports rated the 700 the only printer with excellent quality printing, and that was of foremost importance for me. I still don't know whether the old problem has been corrected on any of the newer canon models. I ultimately decided to get a 700 for the office, since I need best-quality text printing for my professional correspondence. My old 600 and 610 I'd bought hoping to get good-quality scans, and frankly was somewhat disappointed. Since I rarely print photos, but very much want to be able to digitize old terrific family and travel photographs, I bought a dedicated Canon scanner which is FABULOUS for my partner (CanonScan 8800F). Consumer Reports rated the 700 the only printer with excellent quality... » Read More I still don't know whether the old problem has been corrected on any of the newer canon models. I ultimately decided to get a 700 for the office, since I need best-quality text printing for my professional correspondence. My old 600 and 610 I'd bought hoping to get good-quality scans, and frankly was somewhat disappointed. Since I rarely print photos, but very much want to be able to digitize old terrific family and travel photographs, I bought a dedicated Canon scanner which is FABULOUS for my partner (CanonScan 8800F). Consumer Reports rated the 700 the only printer with excellent quality printing, and that was of foremost importance for me. « Show Less
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I havent figured out how to scan .. I assume there has to be some programming between it and my laptop ... So only use it for printing and copying. Any advice?
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The printer will cache the scans in memory while waiting for you to flip the pages over and feed it through again, then it will print out the pages. Its a minor step needed to be taken. I thought it would be an issue for me but in the long run it has not been. Having said that if, you are doing a lot of replication you may want to consider a different printer with a duplexing scanner.
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thats why i bought it. you can do it. it is not as fast as some other scanners. took me a while to figure out how to make a multiple page pdf.the quality of the scan is good. it is not as quick as it could be. also you have to perform all operations through the computer. it is not wireless. i would look for a scanner that has a single button to scan and s wireless. my next scanner will have that.