[bksvol-discuss] Re: O.t. All in ones
- From: Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:15:10 -0600
Hi Monica. My answer is. . . possibly!
The scanner has an excellent feeder, but. . .
As the device is rather thick/tall, I need to keep my hands at shoulder
height when scanning a book and sitting at the desk. In the long run
this may be tyring.
I had no prob with paperback, where the entire double page can be pressed
down nicely. Some hardcovers are rather stiff. I have no idea about the
depth of field of the optics. . . will the scanner still image correctly
towards the central spine? Need to test this.
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
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questioned the most were in the end those who came closest to being wise."
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Hi, Guido. This is very good news. I didn't know that some of the newer
devices work well with assistive technology. From your experience with
this device, could this be used as a person's primary scanner if one scans
books and magazines most of the time? I'm asking because 90 percent of
what I scan is material for Bookshare. I can see that there is a whole
area of technology where I need to rethink my opinion, and I'd like to
know how these devices work now. The HP in my dad's office is about 3
years old, and the Xerox is a year older than that. After coping with
them, I had written off all-in-ones, especially since they cost about the
same as a good scanner but seemed so slow. Your results with the Lexmark
are exciting to me. I have a Lexmark printer and love it.
Monica Willyard
Guido Corona 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.
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