I've never used one, and don't know much about them, but I've been thinking about replacing my HP 4P scanner someday soon. Coincidently, as my HP printer, which is about 8 years old has decided it no longer wishes to feed paper, the all-in-one units suddenly became interesting. I was looking around on Openbook's scanner performance page http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_support/openbooksl5.asp to see how some of the newer ones stack up, and noticed that they now support a number of all-in-ones. The Canon PIXMA MP830 All-In-One actually had some impressive results, with an average page scan time of 10 seconds. Has anyone out there come across this one, and given it a test drive?
Dave At 08:39 AM 1/23/2008, you wrote:
I have been very impressed by the Lexmark X7350 I received for my office. It does print, copy, fax, scan. It is ergonomically very well designed and can be largely serviced by myself, including accessing the paper transport to fix any paper jams (which by the way have never occurred). The scanner is fast and is surprisingly compatible with Kurzweil. OCR quality seems to be comparable with what I obtain from my EPSON 660. I performed installation of the X7350 software with JAWS. More interestingly, the FAX utility that ships with the scanner is delightful to use with JAWS. By the way, this is a color inkjet device. Price is well under $200.I am so happy with this machine that I am seriously thinking of acquiring its monochrome laser sibling -- the Lexmark X342 for home.By the way, no matter how good the scanner is in these multi-function devices, it is worth pointing out that the scanning surface is rather high above the desk surface, making the scan of entire books somewhat inconvenient.Guido Guido Dante Corona IBM Research, Human Ability & Accessibility Center, (HA&AC) Austin Tx. Phone: 512. 838. 9735. Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx Web: <http://www.ibm.com/able>http://www.ibm.com/able". . . Maybe it was only those who were most certain they were right who were guaranteed to be wrong. And that maybe, just maybe, those who questioned the most were in the end those who came closest to being wise."[David Poyer, The Command] Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx> Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 01/22/2008 10:52 PM Please respond to bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx cc Subject [bksvol-discuss] Re: O.t. All in onesSiobhan, I'm responding to you on list in case others might be considering buying these devices. Please don't buy one of these with the idea that you can scan books with it. They can sometimes work for scanning mail, but the scanner part of these devices is meant more for photocopy and faxing. It's not usually a quality scanner, and it's slower than molasses in January. In addition, Kurzweil does not work with some of these devices. I know it wouldn't work with the Xerox or the HP models in my dad's office. I spent hours trying to make them work. Unless there are some very new models that have better scanners, and unless you can try one before buying it, I would urge you to buy a separate scanner and printer. At the very least, please ask the people who work at Kurzweil if there is a model they would recommend.Monica Willyard Siobhan wrote:Hi al. I'm considering buying an all in one printer, scanner, and copier. If anyone has one, please email off list so I can pick your brain. Thanks,Siobhan No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition.Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.9/1238 - Release Date: 1/22/2008 8:12 PM
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