Wasteful, slow, and scanning takes forever!
594167
Bought this and returned it within a week. My family was looking for primarily a fast scanner with injket color printer. We settled on this on a whim due to HP's popularity, and deeply regretted it upon using it for a few days. The scanning speed was around 10-12 seconds per page wireless or wired on 200 dpi, (rediculous). I then read about the ink wasting and decided to return it within the alotted amount of time. I sprung for a Brother MCW-J470DW which was $50 less and had way faster scanning times.
4906064
I read the reviews that this USB is slow.

I thought no problem, I am just backing up documents - no need for speed.  I just delete the software etc - boy was I wrong.

This thing is painfully slow.  Also it began to freeze up etc.  A big waste of money.
1968798
The software required so many actions that it made it faster to fill the former out by hand than to scan it.  This defeated my purpose.
1049805
HI I have worked in technology for years so i'm techno savy. (though I cannot spell) I was really excited to buy this scanner. I wanted something portable and small. On opening the box I find that the software as NOT compatible with my pc ie:VISTA! I had to download a beta version. with quote "no garentee that it will work" and tada! GUESS WHAT...IT DOES NOT WORK NO image captured NO reconition and the scan is SLOW!

 I reveiwed the machine in more detail.

a)File format not compatble with Quicken 2006 & 2007

b)Each receipt size over 1 mb - you will run out of space soon. Think about it - 20 recipts= a 20MB+ file you will be emailing to your manager...immm

c) no recognition and/or hopeless recognition - you have to check each image scanned. I sanned 4 5 times each and it still provides a black page..... UGGGGGGH!!!!!

d) if you have or are going to vista forget it,

In summary this is a TIME WASTER!!!!NOT A saver...FYI:I have had a card scan for business cards and it is a dream.  Was hoping for the same but alas Neat Receipts is a yapping dog! WOFF!WOFF!
1664376
This is really a waste of money, hardware is cumbersome (can't scan a credit card or passport), software is a nightmare, it freezes my computer, gums up and slows down with unwanted pop-ups and has to be deleted and reinstalled to scan.  The PFD function does not work without paying a subscribing monthly fee.  My advice:  don't buy this scanner, shop around for something better.
926407
I bought this scanner for a business trip, when I knew I would absolutely need to scan images, and couldn't bring my all-in-one Epson printer with me.
The set-up was really easy, but THEN...
I have a Mac Powerbook G 4. I usually scan directly into photoshop, using the twain import function. I tried to do the same with this scanner, and lo and behold... Photoshop would not recognize the scanner for some time, until it crashed entirely: not only could I not scan the images I needed to work on urgently, but I could not even open photoshop anymore. It crashed, everytime I tried to open it, while opening twain...
I called customer service as soon as I realized that photoshop wasn't recognizing the scanner. It was the beiginning of a 6 hours adventure on the phone with various customer services at Epson and Photoshop. Epson kept putting me on hold.... for 30 to 60 min. at a time, passing me on to various useless cutomer service representatives, to whom I had to repeat the same information over and over again, until I finally got to the "specialist" (the same one each time). It was when I was on the phone with him the first time that Photoshop crashed entirely. When it happened and I communicated that to him, the line miraculously broke off! I had to call again, put on hold again, passed through all the loops again, got that same specialist, gave my "case number" again, started menionning the photoshop problem and.... THE LINE CUT OFF AGAIN!!
This happened three times in total.
They finally said  "the scanner is working, it is a problem with photoshop... call them"
The worst part of it is: the scanner comes with a cd of photoshop elements 3.0... I would think that since they send the photoshop cd along with the scanner, the two are compatible! I installed the photoshop elements hoping that I could at least use that during my stay out of town... same problem. When I called photoshop to try to understand what the problem was, they asked me to register the Photoshop Elements 3.0... I gave the serial number, and they refused to help me out because the product had already been registered... BY EPSON!!

Did I hear someone mention Kafka?

SOLUTION: if this problem happened to you, I finally found a semi-resolution on the internet, in five minutes (after my lost day on the phone): you have to disable twain from your Photoshop Applications folder:
Mac HD> Applications > Adobe Photoshop > Plug-ins > Import/Export > Twain
Just rename the Twain by adding a ~ infront of it (call it ~twain) and it disables it... you won't be able to import anything via phhotoshop, but at least your photoshop will be working again!

Apart from that, the scanner works fine.
Moral of the story: back from my business trip, I found my Epson all-in-one printer having died during my trip (an interesting coincidence). I bought an HP in replacement and will return the scanner as well. I am done with Epson forever.
4037854
If you have lots of time to waste this baby is for you!

First you'll need to buy a strong magnifying glass to read the miniscule directions. Then you'll have to sign up and provide lots of personal data tp ADATA and their 3rd party install service. Numerous looong model, serial and other numbers to enter to be able to run the service, it took me a few attempts to get everything correct before I could transfer everything from my hdd to ssd.

Then the real fun begins, hangups up the ying yang. Run all the cleanup programs repeatedly, clear out caches, disable unnecessary start up programs that even the old hdd could handle and it's groundhog day, you get to repeat each of these steps daily and voila! No more a
hangups for a while, maybe, sometimes you get to repeat all the cleanup steps immediately.

I bought a few Samsung ssds for old desktops and laptops and never a problem so I figured I'd save a few bucks buying ADATA. Huge mistake!

I've never returned anything to Amazon but this dud goes back in a day or two. If it was free it's still not worth the wasted time
1648084
This printer must have been designed by Rube Goldburg.  The software is so ineffecient, it takes much longer than it should to scan.

Don't even try to duplex scan or copy.  The thing is sure to jam up.

I could write a lenghty dialog about how I hate this printer, but the best thing to do is don't even buy the thing.  You want mine?  I'll give it to you.
4821194
...and this scanners software is no exception. I do graphic design for a print shop and I needed to replace my ancient and worn out epson expression 800. The specs for the ScanJet 4070 looked good so i gave it a shot.

dont get me wrong, the scan quality is ok, but this thing is SOOOO SLOW!! The first scan of the day every day takes about 3 or 4 minutes just for the scanner to warm up! then it takes another couple minutes to actually scan the art (longer for higher res scans). When you're trying to manage about 7 or 8 jobs at once and customers want their prints and proofs right away, that is COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE!! HP won't do anything about it either because they're so huge and make so much money, the DONT CARE about what we think. I've called and complained more than once. But the speed of the scanner isn't even the worst part...

The software is crap. It makes its own settings and refuses to save mine. The interface is NOT intuitive, i cant get the descreen option to work no matter what. Dont even think of uninstalling and reinstalling, the software glitches up even more, and if you're lucky it won't crash your pc every time you turn it on. check their site, most of their products have all sorts of uninstall patches, etc. can you believe their scanner software is 300 megs!??!? 300 MEGABYTES FOR SCANNER SOFTWARE?? ALL OF PHOTOSHOP ISNT EVEN 300 MEGS!! and guess what? theres no 3rd party software for the scanner... great.

the most annoying thing to me personally is that the scanner decides what color corrections it wants to make to the image. in the options i set it to NOT correct anything, but it still does anyway. i have to load the software (1 - 2 minutes) wait for warm up (3-4 minutes) let it do its preview scan, which it does automatically even if you don't want it to (1 -2 minutes), change all the settings to what i WANT them to be at (another 30 seconds or so) then scan (usually 2-3 minutes). so all in all it takes about 8-10 minutes to scan what i can scan from my cheap little canon bearpaw in about 2 minutes or less.

if this story isn't enough to deter you from buying this scanner, than you deserve the trouble it gets you. also, hp PLEASE get some decent programmers!!!!
1005537
I had always wanted to try this scanner to organize my collection of business cards. So I bought it and never liked it. It does not work. I scanned over 50 cards so far and had to literally correct or type addresses and phone numbers, etc. Especially, it never captured the company names correctly at all. Only thing that I liked was the software but you can get similar software elsewhere for far much less. Therefore, please do not waste your money on this device. I think that this scanner is worth probably $25 or less.
3932942
DO NOT buy this scanner if you are scanning artwork, photographs, or any type of material that needs to look good. This scanner, after six months of owning it, has proven to be more of a headache than its worth. I now get banding in about half of my scans. Anything that isn't perfectly flush with the glass becomes horribly blurry (even if it is barely lifted). When scanning translucent materials like drawings on vellum, I get a horrible halo effect with banding in the halo.

This might be good for someone who just needs to scan signatures and documents. But if you are scanning visuals, you will need a new scanner in six months. Don't waste your money.
2022065
Set up was impossible and the product works inconsistently. When it works, it has a nice quality resolution and I find most of my scans need minimal editing and clean up, but troubleshooting this scanner took too much time and I feel it wasn't worth the purchase. If I weren't in a rush, I'd have gone with a different brand of scanner.
694495
This is just an awful scanner.  It's a few years old now, so perhaps it worked more seamlessly on whatever Windows OS it assumed was most prevalent at the time (Windows 7?).  I run a Windows 10 machine and have no end of trouble with it.  I have to exclude certain log files from Windows Defender and put together all sorts of little hacks just to get painstaking performance scanning at only 200 dpi *without* OCR.

Even if we move past the performance and connectivity issues by chasing down all the workarounds on Google, there's still the fact that it has a terrible scanning user interface as well.  It's a small, difficult to understand program where all the most important settings are tucked behind icons that launch other windows or are only revealed after you click the scan button -- which seems counter-intuitive to me.  Wouldn't it make more sense to setup the scan and then click 'Scan'?

At roughly the same price point, you would be MUCH better off with the Canon imageFormula DR-C225W.  I also own this scanner and can attest to how amazing it is.  It has a much more straightforward user interface for conducting the scan and is order of magnitude faster.  In my small business we used this to scan 10 years worth of tax filings, contracts, invoices, and other administrative paperwork that we no longer wanted to keep hard copies of.

Bottom line: stay away
1190141
Pros: It's nice to have the several all-in-one features in a compact unit. Scanner is nice, goes to high resolutions, and is very easy to use. OCR feature is very good and easy to set up. At least ink is individual, so you don't waste as much when one color goes out. Print quality is fine.

Cons: The two biggest drawbacks are: 1. Printer speed is vastly overrated. For a normal black and white page, it takes 30 seconds to a minute per page, and you will be waiting through your lunch hour for a high-quality color print! 2. It also drinks ink like a pig, and this ink is not cheap--nor refillable! It also stubbornly refuses to print black-only copies when one color is out. I gave it two stars for "ease of use" over this issue.
847867
Don't buy this scanner.
Though the hardware is reasonable at the price (but mine malfunctions if placed too close to the computer), the software is truly the worst software of any type that I have seen in recent years.  The software has infuriating problems such as refusing to scan an image of standard dimensions unless I preview every scan.  As a result this scanner is very hard and very slow to use for scanning printed documents intended to send to an OCR package.  I was expecting it to be slow but it is unspeakably slow because the software is VERY slow to laod and initialize and many of the software features can't be used and workarounds are needed at every turn.  I was trying to use it on an 800MHz Windows 98 computer.  The updated drivers on the HP web site are in some ways worse than the older ones.  When you've wrestled with it for an hour to scan in a simple 15 page document you will get the idea.  Best avoided if you can find any alternative.
3792807
If I could choose, negative stars, I would.  Why?  Constant error messages - mostly when anything of color is on a scanned sheet.  At least 95% of the time, I get an error message when there is a hint of color on a scanned document.  And an awful touchscreen.  I have to smash my fingers into it in order to type in my network login.  It's a very expensive piece of junk.  I wouldn't get it if it was given to me.  Find something else because this is by far the worst scanner that I have ever used.  Nothing but frustration!
1433077
So far I despise this printer!! I've only had it for about a week and the scanner hasn't worked once.  It prints fine and I love the small footprint (which is the only reason it got two stars), but since I bought it specifically to make multi-page scanning easier, this is trash! It took five minutes to scan one sheet of paper the first time, since then it will start to scan something then freeze and become unresponsive.  I have to close it using a task manager on my computer.  The online user manual and help guide is a joke as well.  BOTTOM LINE: SPEND THE MONEY AND BUY SOMETHING BETTER