Fujitsu FI-4220C Color Duplex Scanner

Rating:
Summary: Great scanner!
Review: I've installed 2 of these little fellows, in one case replacing an HP 7490c which was my favorite electronic item to loathe. It took forever. It screeched. It locked up PCs. It jammed. It scanned like that song from Rocky Horror: "it's just a jump to the left. Then a jump to the right." I upgraded to Windows XP to please it. It found that rare defect in XP: its inability to recognize some USB scanners, forcing me to un-plug and re-plug the HP Scanner cable every single re-boot. It lived to be loathed. HP will send you a replacement ADF as often as you like, with no argument at all. How's that for their confidence in quality control for this little objection of disaffection?

And then, sigh, I bought the Fujitsu FI-4220c from Amazon. It arrives with one of those oddly phrased last minute insert pages that essentially says don't try to use the USB connection with XP. It's a good warning to heed.

If instead you install the card in your PC (I know, it's been ages since I've opened up a chasis, but it's easier than it ever was in the old days), the rest is straight forward. Small footprint. Quiet. FAST. Startingly fast. Ample resolution. Snap to alter the settings for each scan. Not quite the exact clarity (and lack of slight curving of text) that you will find if you pay 3 times the price, but then you aren't paying 3 times the price. While I suppose it works well as a "departmental" scanner, we use them for single desks with heavy document / image scanning demands. Just keeps keeping up.

I suggest you install it with a current ample PC and have plenty of electronic storage space on hand, because you will find yourself scanning more than you imagined. Little odds and ends of paper just do go away and don't return. 50 page legal size document in a couple minutes, converted to pdf and ready to email. No fits and starts. All pages in order. Lovely.

In addition to Adobe, we also use Paperport as a gateway and editing software for scanned docs.

This Fujitsu is a solid unit. Both units have returned price in peformance within a few weeks of purchase and installation.

Still trying to find the correct ecological opportunity for detroying the HP. Maybe find a Sondheim giant roaming the forest. BOOM. SQUISH!

Rating:
Summary: Work horse. Well worth the price.
Review: I've installed 2 of these little fellows, in one case replacing an HP 7490c which was my favorite electronic item to loathe. It took forever. It screeched. It locked up PCs. It jammed. It scanned like that song from Rocky Horror: "it's just a jump to the left. Then a jump to the right." I upgraded to Windows XP to please it. It found that rare defect in XP: its inability to recognize some USB scanners, forcing me to un-plug and re-plug the HP Scanner cable every single re-boot. It lived to be loathed. HP will send you a replacement ADF as often as you like, with no argument at all. How's that for their confidence in quality control for this little objection of disaffection?

And then, sigh, I bought the Fujitsu FI-4220c from Amazon. It arrives with one of those oddly phrased last minute insert pages that essentially says don't try to use the USB connection with XP. It's a good warning to heed.

If instead you install the card in your PC (I know, it's been ages since I've opened up a chasis, but it's easier than it ever was in the old days), the rest is straight forward. Small footprint. Quiet. FAST. Startingly fast. Ample resolution. Snap to alter the settings for each scan. Not quite the exact clarity (and lack of slight curving of text) that you will find if you pay 3 times the price, but then you aren't paying 3 times the price. While I suppose it works well as a "departmental" scanner, we use them for single desks with heavy document / image scanning demands. Just keeps keeping up.

I suggest you install it with a current ample PC and have plenty of electronic storage space on hand, because you will find yourself scanning more than you imagined. Little odds and ends of paper just do go away and don't return. 50 page legal size document in a couple minutes, converted to pdf and ready to email. No fits and starts. All pages in order. Lovely.

In addition to Adobe, we also use Paperport as a gateway and editing software for scanned docs.

This Fujitsu is a solid unit. Both units have returned price in peformance within a few weeks of purchase and installation.

Still trying to find the correct ecological opportunity for detroying the HP. Maybe find a Sondheim giant roaming the forest. BOOM. SQUISH!

Rating:
Summary: Great scanner!
Review: This scanner just tears through a stack of documents when scanning. Although it says the document feeder has a 50 sheet capacity, I've found that if you actually put 50 sheets in it, it starts to double feed, so I limit it to about 25-30. I really like the ability to scan both sides of a document with one pass.

For online documents, I'm finding that 200 dpi is more than adequate, unless you are scanning dot matrix printing, then you need either a higher resolution, or to adjust the brightness setting, or both to get a good scan. The worst is scanning dot matrix printing on yellow paper.

It will scan really small documents (like a check) just fine, but if you put different sized documents in a stack to scan, it will pull some of the smaller ones though a bit crooked.

It comes with Acrobat free of charge, ... All in all, I like it, and would buy it again, unless I could afford a faster version like the 4770.