[Athen] Current high-speed scanners

Hunziker, Dawn A - (hunziker) hunziker at email.arizona.edu
Thu Mar 7 11:34:44 PST 2013


Hi Todd,

3) For those using the Canon 9080/9050/7550 scanners, a) What are you using as a supplemental flatbed scanner? b) is anyone using the optional Flatbed Scanner Unit 101 or the larger Flatbed Scanner Unit 201 with these scanners?

We have moved away from using a flatbed scanner as much as possible. When there is a need for a flatbed scanner, it typically means that we have either a library book or a borrowed copy of the book. In these cases, we use the scan to email function on our networked copy machine which creates an image PDF for us to work with. It's not the ideal method but it gets us through. The other option we use is to copy the text for conversion and run those pages through our Canon...

Dawn

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Several different follow-ups...

1) Thank you Gaeir. Can you provide any more specifics on features where the dedicated scanners perform better than the office networked copiers (e.g. Canon and Sharp, not including low cost multifunctions)?

2) For those who are using the Fujitsu 6770 with the flatbed, is the flatbed strong enough to support pressing down on a bound book to flatten the pages when it is not possible to remove the binding without warping the platen?

3) For those using the Canon 9080/9050/7550 scanners, a) What are you using as a supplemental flatbed scanner? b) is anyone using the optional Flatbed Scanner Unit 101 or the larger Flatbed Scanner Unit 201 with these scanners?

4) Is anyone successfully using a Plustek OptiBook scanner to scan bound books? If so, which model(s)? And, if not, what model(s)?

Thank you,
Todd


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The campuses that I work with report that they are generally not satisfied with copier/scanner combos, unless they do very little scanning. Those colleges who scan regularly prefer a dedicated scanner, and we have found the color Canon scanners to be incredible value. The scanning utility that comes with the scanner is fully accessible and provides great flexibility.
We probably have over 60 of them in our system now and nothing buy praise for them.

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Is anyone using a recent networked color copier that they would recommend?
If so, could share brand/models and what additional modules or add-ons that they were ordered with that relate to scanning functionality?



Are you scanning to a file or directly into a software application?



Thanks for all the discussion on this topic, Todd







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We're running our Canon DR-9080C on Windows 7 64 bit.



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Hi all,



Were there issues that you ran into with the Canon DR-9080C and Windows 7?



I downloaded new drivers for our Canon DR-9080C for Windows 7 (x64) and quality of images scanned seems to have been maintained. The one work-around we had to incorporate for Windows 7 and our work process was to install Microsoft Office Document Imaging from Office 2003, which doesn't interfere with the MS Office 2010 we have installed.



Dawn





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[mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Teresa Haven

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Ah, very good point. We have had to maintain obsolete boxes to keep running our old Canon scanner, and the university really doesn't like that; if more recent Canons still require older OS versions then we may indeed need to purchase multiple brands to cover all our bases. Thanks for the reminder.

Teresa



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Hi all.



The major problem is finding ones that work with a modern OS. I am maintaining an XP pro box to maintain my Canon 9080. I am not willing to spend the additional bucks for a Win7 scanner because I cannot justify it in my current life.



I would not chose this as my primary production scanner, but it makes a great side scanner. Good flatbed, and also very useful with texts that need special handing. For those heavy clay based pages in the art appreciation books this is great since I can choose a top feed vs. a bottom feed.



Just some thoughts but also a good conversation.



Ron



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Hi Teresa,



I've been looking into production scanners as well. I used the 9080c's at The University of Montana for years and they grew on me. The 9080c has been replaced by the 9050c which is also a workhorse production scanner. If the 9050c is too expensive the 7550c also from Canon is a great scanner as well.

I prefer the Canons because they require so little maintenance.

The Fujitsu scanners are known to be good, but they use up consumables so the overall maintenance costs are higher. (This is only what I have heard from others.)



We just ordered a 7550c here at Clark for alt. format production. Let us know what you discover.



Good luck,





Jon



Jon Pielaet



Clark College

Disability Support Services

Assistive Technology and IT Accessibility Specialist

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Greetings, all. I know this question comes up periodically, but the answers change because the technology keeps changing. Does anyone have current information/opinions on good options for high-quality, durable, high-speed duplex scanners for alt format production? We are still running on our Canon DR9080C that we've had for years, but we would like to purchase a new machine to add to our production line and serve as insurance for the day when our old Canon finally bites the dust. (The last time we had to put in a maintenance call it was down for almost a month, and I can't let that happen again.) Any suggestions on brands/models I should research are most welcome.

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