Rating: 
Summary: A Happy Customer
Review: My second scanner for my home office. First was in a Brother MFC 6550MC multi-function machine (fax/printer/scanner which didn't have the flat top for difficult documents or books and didn't do anything well). This HP had a cheap price, quick install and does what it promised. I am a software professional, not a hardware guy. I use it connected to my Toshiba laptop runnning Windows 2000. I have other machines (both laptop and tower) running NT 4.0 and I wish it also ran on that, but it doesn't and I knew that before I bought it (I believe NT doesn't yet recognize the USB ports this scanner uses). I looked at the other reviews below. Most made sense to me. I haven't yet tried to use the Adobe software. I do scan documents so that I can manipulate them in WORD. I plan later to utilize the TWAIN capability using it with business card scanning software (normally over [price] and I purchased just the software on [local store] for [price], instead of using their expensive little scanner). I also like the buttons to directly have a scan document print (yea, the button is kinda cheap...but I won't abuse it). Interesting quirk is that this machine doesn't have an "on/off" switch. Wish it did. All in all I am a very happy customer. Good Job HP!
UPDATE: July 2002 Installed Adobe Software, no problems on my Windows 2000 platform. Functionally, it doesn't do much more than I can accomplish using America Online to manipulate (rotate, cut, brighten) photos. It will get red eye out of photos. I have used this Scanner extensively with CARDSCAN software mentioned above. I can scan a full sheet of Business Cards (10 cards) at a time IF I have a black piece of paper as background so software can identify that there are more than one card to scan. Purchased CARDSCAN for only [price] on [local store], normally over [price]. This scanner saved me over [money]!
Rating: 
Summary: Good value
Review: One of the cheaper scanners out there, the HP 2200C offers a no-frills solution if you want a scanner that gives you high resolution for a low price.It has a nice, big scanning surface and works fairly quickly. One downer is that it comes with no cool editing software...just the necessary scanning and basic editing tools. The pictures come out looking sharp, and the scanner is of a reasonable size. One problem I had with it was that my computer would randomly reboot as I was saving the scan image....a tech support call suggested that I eliminate all other programs while running the scanner to maximize my system resources. I did this, and haven't run into any more reboots...so far, that is. A good product, but you can do a bit better if you spend 20 bucks more.
Rating:
Summary: Best bang for the buck!
Review: The quality is there. It is a little on the slow side but it produces scans just as good as the high-dollar model I use at work. Well worth the investment if price is all that's keeping you from scanning at home.
Rating:
Summary: A Great Unit for the price.
Review: This is a easy to setup quick little scanner, not the smallest unit, certainly not the biggest. I find the software to be fine, and I dont even bother with Adobeshare as I save all my scans to a file rather than adobe share. Additionally the gentlemen from India is entirely wrong, you can easily save as any format from the scanner. All my files get saved as jpegs. The best feature on this unit is the copier feature, on push of the button and the image goes right to my printer, and it looks awesome....... I have ONE COMPLAINT. THe quality of the buttons in front of the machine WILL NOT stand up to heavy use. I dont use them you can activate the features via software... if you forget that HP got cheap on the buttons you will love this unit.
Rating: 
Summary: A few bugs to work out
Review: This is a fairly cheap, good quality scanner. Mine, however, has one little problem: the little ribbon of wire that connects to the light bar often gets tangled when the light bar moves the full length of the tray (which it must do before "starting a new scan") . When it becomes tangled the light bar refuses to move and the motor makes a horrible sound. The only solution is to take it apart and untangle this jumple of wires. The images are otherwise high quality, just seems that the engineers were a little short sighted.
Rating: 
Summary: Seen Better
Review: This scanner is very slow, awkward and noisy. I was happier with another brand but it was outdated for XP.
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