[Athen] Purchasing New Scanners

[Jeffrey Dell]

Hi Al
For our students in our computer lab we use the Epson DS 50000 11x17
flatbeds.  We have 3 of them and their the 3rd generation of the Epson
large flatbed scanners that I have purchased and they are reliable.
The only knock against them is they moved to soft buttons for powering
it on and off.  It works ok but our students were used to the button
that was physically depressed.
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/jsp/Product.do?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&sku=B11B204121
For small desktop ADF's for staff we use the Epson GT S50.  It has a
75 sheet tray and scanns 25 pages per minute duplex.  It also takes up
little space on a desktop.
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/jsp/Product.do?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&sku=B11B194011
I've been sticking with Epson scanners where I can because they have
always worked well for us.
Jeff
Cleveland State

On 6/6/13, Al Puzzuoli <alpuzz at msu.edu> wrote:

> Hello everyone,

> We are upgrading much of our technology this summer, and scanners seem to be

> the question of the day. We are looking to purchase several categories of

> scanner:

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> *         Several high capacity units for ebook production

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> *         A couple scanners for use by students in our technology lab

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> *         Small, space saving desktop scanners for use by our staff when

> scanning documentation, etc.

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> For ebook production we currently have several Canon DR5010s. They have

> served us well, but it appears there is no supported driver for Windows 8

> X64. Has anyone had any luck shoehorning the Windows 7 driver  into Windows

> 8 and making it work? If not, what replacement models should we consider?

> We're also debating whether one scanner per production workstation is the

> most efficient approach, or whether we should consider a couple networked

> scanners instead.

>

> Scanners for student use pose another interesting question. I believe this

> class of scanner is obviously still important ; However having said that,

> we've seen usage decrease considerably over the past few years. It seems

> that nowadays students are still making heavy use of OCR, but most of what

> they OCR is PDF and not paper. Our current student scanners are Ebson

> flatbeds with document feeders. I'm wondering how important the feeders are

> anymore? It seems that if a student did need to scan more than a few pages,

> they would be better served to just give the packet to us for production.

>

> In terms of scanners for staff, we're probably looking at small, upright

> models  with sheet feeders , something like the Canon imageFORMULA p-215,or

> maybe something a bit bigger and more robust.

>

> Thoughts on any of these situations would be very much welcomed.

> Thanks in advance,

>

> Al Puzzuoli

> Michigan State University

> Information Technologist

> http://www.rcpd.msu.edu

> Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities  517-884-1915 120 Bessey Hall

> East Lansing, MI  48824-1033

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