How is the scanned quality? I need to scan documents for print later. The scans must be clean without any background.
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I think the quality is very good considering the size of this scanner. We have had no issues with bad scans at this point.
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pretty darn good just make sure you choose the highest quality dpi option in setup with Omnitouch software
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Works fine, I scan all the time. I am a RE broker, use scan / email for all documents for RE transactions. Like this scanner.
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Mine scans nice and clear. There are different settings you can put it on. I scanned a 45 year old hand written journal and was pleased with the clarity.
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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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I've had no problems with poor quality scanned photos. The default is set to 300dpi, have you tried increasing it to 600dpi? That's what I always use and that works for me. I believe the max is 1200dpi. You may want to play around with that setting and see. Also don't be fooled by the scan preview, it's not an exact representation of what the scanned photo/doc will look. Hope that helps.
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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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About 2000 scanned pages ... I have not had this issue. This is likely a software issue. Have you tried re-installing the software.
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It scans photographs pretty well. I don't think it's quite as good as my Epson v500, but it's "good enough" unless you're doing archival work and want the absolute best result you can get. The software does little to no post-processing, and your only choice of output for photographs is JPG (which is always a "lossy" format, as opposed to TIF or other "lossless" format). I don't know if it's the particular JPG compression or the scanner itself, but there is a [very] slight "tiling" effect to the scanned photographs. I suppose overall, I would give it a 7.5/10 for photos. Additionally, since it is a sheetfed scanner, if there is any dust on the scanner "lens", you will end up with a line, as opposed to the V500, so you need to keep that clean. On the plus side, you can scan multiple photos (of approximately the same size) automatically from the document feeder tray, and you can scan the back of the photos at the same time to keep context (many people write notes on the back of photos, which takes twice as much time to scan if you are using a photo scanner). I will upload an example of this scanner vs my V500 in the "customer images" and you can judge for yourself. (edit: never mind...Amazon won't allow me to add customer images for this product) The image is at: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pg9fxsfvvdmutlj/S1300i_vs_V500_comparison.png
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thanks for the input .....I had gone ahead and ordered the Scan-Snap but had decided to return it before it even arrived. Your response just made me know that I made the right decision. My plan now is to sort through all those photos and send the best of the lot to a company such as Best Photo Scanning and let them preserve them on discs for me.
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Actually, I haven't used it. Sorry. I just copy or scan from this printer so far.
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YES & YES and it does a reasonably good job, too. I mainly use the Scan to PDF & JPEG options and have been really pleased with the results. Scanning is slow, but for a portable unit is does many things well and there have to be a few sacrifices for the portability sake. Keep in mind that it runs just fine on battery mode too... just can not go wrong with this unit !!!
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I have a Canon MG5220 inkjet printer and the image quality is fine. However, if you're looking for stunning photo-quality prints, I'd suggest picking up actual photo paper (my preference is glossy).
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i am pretty happy with it. I don't use it for professional use. so I don't have any complaints.I have owned several brother printers and as far as laser printers go, they are very acceptable. I scan directly to my pc,iPhone and iPad with good results.
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Quality is very good and the speed is excellent. You can scan and save in different formats including PDF.
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Hi, Sorry for this late response but I wanted to check it by myself with my printer. Personally I scan my document using Microsoft "Paint" and it is only a picture application. You can save your document in several format but none in text format. By definition a scanner is supposed to produce images and unless you use a Optical Character Recognition Software I don't think that you will make it. I am sorry, I afraid that I was not very helpful but it is only what I can tell you for now. However I am going to poke around, If I can find out something I will inform you. Have a good day MB
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Quality is very good on all scans. I always finish the scan in Photoshop so converting to B&W; gives you complete control.
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I have had only good scans from photos. As you probably know you have to have glossy finish photos. Matte finish will give you lots of white and black specks due to the texture of the paper. That applies to any scanner. And of course set your dpi to 300 or greater if you want excellent quality. Epson has an excellent image color and brightness/contrast editing option as well.
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It is portable and easy to carry with you. I have a copier scanner and the Scansnap does a far better job. You can desiginate searchable words in your document so you can locate it later. It will scan both sides in one pass. It does an excellent job of scanning photos to jpeg format. Lots of bang for you buck.
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I've scanned a few photos and it did ok but I wouldn't buy it just for photos, I would buy a scanner that is made for photos. I purchased and use this for documents. I think you will get better quality with an actual photo scanner.