[Athen] Purchasing New Scanners

[Ron Stewart]

Here you go, the replacement for the 5080C is now the 9050c but if you can
afford it the DR-X10C is really the way to go for cut book files.  The paper
handling is absolutely amazing.

 

For desktop cut book scanners, the Canon P-215 is really good but the pages
have to be cut. It can do about 20-30 pages in a batch.  I am also becoming
enamored with the Plustek Book edge scanners for use in the library space
where you can not cut the bindings off.  I go for the 4000 series because
they tend to be of office quality.

 

If you need a production flatbed then my favorite is the Fujitsu 6770, nice
flatbed scanner and also has a duplexing unit that allows you to feed from
the top or the bottom.

 

My personal scanner is a Xerox 600 series with and ADF unit.  I don't tend
to do large volumes these days.

 

Scanners that I would avoid are Epson and HP, they are good personal units
but do not last in a production environment.   All your scanners need to be
fully TWAIN compliant or you are going to run into problems with the OCR
packages.

 

Ron Stewart

 

 

 

From: athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu
[mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Al
Puzzuoli
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 8:35 AM
To: athen-list at u.washington.edu
Subject: [Athen] Purchasing New Scanners

 

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:

.         Several high capacity units for ebook production

.         A couple scanners for use by students in our technology lab

.         Small, space saving desktop scanners for use by our staff when
scanning documentation, etc.

 

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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