Scan Accelerator

[dogsbody]

Hi Everybody,
Was recently asked about scan accelerators for the bizhub mfp's by the sales guys, when I thought about it all I know about them is what the name implies.
Do any of you guys have them installed in your machines? Do they they make a noticable difference? I'm interested in what everybody has to say regarding them (or any other extra like card/bio authentication etc).
Cheers

[bgbas]

I was curious about that to, but all I hear are crickets.

[fixerboy]

I want to help ... But first what are you trying to do just scan or are you looking for an enhance scanning using what method SMB,FTP or pagescope box operater

[fausto1981]

I don't know much about Konica but maybe decreasing the resolution on the settings can increase the speed.

[dogsbody]

	Quote:			Originally Posted by fixerboy
	I want to help ... But first what are you trying to do just scan or are you looking for an enhance scanning using what method SMB,FTP or pagescope box operater

The Scan Accelerator is an option for some bizhubs (SA-501 - Scan Accelerator Kit for C252 for example). It was just a general question regarding their worth, i've seen one in the field on a machine that does very little scanning. I was asked about them by the sales guys and thought I'd get peoples opinion on them because I have had very little exposure to that particular option.

[Scott_Lewis]

The SA-501 and another one I've seen has what looks like a hardware accelerator board that probably speeds up the conversion of the scan from native format to JPEG format. I suspect it will also allow control of the compression or lossiness levels.

[Christan]

SA-501 is basically a "JPEG board". Without SA-501, scan files using "JPEG compression" but uses"software processing", Bizhub with SA501 uses "hardware processing". Hardware processing is more powerful
The difference in processing speed with and without SA-50l.
bizhub C550
<HDD TWAIN>
Mode: Full Color
Format: PDF
Resolution: 600dpi

#

of Pages: 58
Without SA-50l 564.5 seconds
With SA-50l : 165.8 seconds
Approximately 3 times faster.
<Scan to FTP>
Mode: Full Color
Format: PDF
Resolution: 200dpi

#

of Pages: 58
Without SA-501 : 77.7 seconds
With SA-50l : 52 seconds
Approximately 50% faster.
Mode: Full Color
Format: JPEG
Resolution: 600dpi

#

of Pages: 1
Without SA-501 : 12.5 seconds
With SA-50l : 9.8 seconds

[dogsbody]

	Quote:			Originally Posted by Christan
	SA-501 is basically a "JPEG board". Without SA-501, scan files using "JPEG compression" but uses"software processing", Bizhub with SA501 uses "hardware processing". Hardware processing is more powerful The difference in processing speed with and without SA-50l. bizhub C550 <HDD TWAIN> Mode: Full Color Format: PDF Resolution: 600dpi # of Pages: 58 Without SA-50l 564.5 seconds With SA-50l : 165.8 seconds Approximately 3 times faster. <Scan to FTP> Mode: Full Color Format: PDF Resolution: 200dpi # of Pages: 58 Without SA-501 : 77.7 seconds With SA-50l : 52 seconds Approximately 50% faster. Mode: Full Color Format: JPEG Resolution: 600dpi # of Pages: 1 Without SA-501 : 12.5 seconds With SA-50l : 9.8 seconds

Thanks for that.