Comments on: SoHo Printers On a Moderate Budget

By: Bnew

Bnew — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:59:44 +0000

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By: Matthew Bookspan

Matthew Bookspan — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:32:47 +0000

@Bob – with the Canon, I have been able to consistently fill the ADF with 35 pages (max) and it has neither jammed nor taken two pages at once. The Epson, on the other hand, did not jam, although some pages fed through at an angle, and were thus scanned that way. So, I had to re-scan them.

The scans are of very legible quality – I mostly scan text into PDF. I have not tried photos or other multi-color documents yet.

I can’t speak to the noise the comparison to a digital camera doesn’t make sense to me here.

By: Bob Smith

Bob Smith — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:13:05 +0000

I’m not just thinking of OCR accuracy, but also

1) How reliable is the scan feed? Does it jam or feed 2 pages frequently?
2) Are the scans of high quality? Is noise a problem, like it is on digital cameras with small sensors?

By: Matthew Bookspan

Matthew Bookspan — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:40:33 +0000

@Matt – I wasn’t able to include every AIO. Glad to see that this one meets your needs.

@Bob – I can’t compare to the ScanSnap. Most of them have larger ADFs than the ScanSnap. Since the ScanSnap uses Adobe Reader, and each AIO has its own software, I would say they are probably on par. I use ReadIRIS 11 for OCR and it works quite well.

By: Bob Smith

Bob Smith — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:23:31 +0000

How good are the scanners on these AIOs, compared to a ScanSnap S510M?

By: MattF

MattF — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:08:49 +0000

Oddly enough, the HP 6480 (which I own) which cost me about $160, supports both duplex printing and scanning (plus copying and faxing). The real strength of the printer, however, is in quality photo printing– it does a remarkably good job and can do either four or six color printing. The pages/min isn’t so hot– but what’s the big hurry?