Desktop Scanning

[JR2ALTA]

Does anyone know of a desktop machine with a rock solid adf?

Got a few customers complaining about adf performance. They're trying to scan a crap ton on machines that's aren't designed for it.

So here I am again doing the work a sales rep should be doing. Ideally a machine that can hold more than 50 in adf, has a skew adjustment, beefy rollers. I still want an MFP for fax&print so not really in the market for a stand-alone scanner

Thanks in advance

[xring1958]

Re: Desktop Scanning

Desktop machines are designed to fill a particular price point. The parts required for a high capacity document feeder would exceed the price point and space requirements of every desktop unit I have seen. There is a solution it is called a scanner. They come in many volume levels have durable parts and cost way more than your customers are willing to spend even though they should. Even higher end MFP products don't have the same reliability of a good commercial grade scanner, but we as an industry tend to give away scans on MFPs making the customers that would benefit from a commercial scanner unwilling to pay for one.

[D_L_P]

Re: Desktop Scanning

Does anyone know of a desktop machine with a rock solid adf?

Got a few customers complaining about adf performance. They're trying to scan a crap ton on machines that's aren't designed for it.

So here I am again doing the work a sales rep should be doing. Ideally a machine that can hold more than 50 in adf, has a skew adjustment, beefy rollers. I still want an MFP for fax&print so not really in the market for a stand-alone scanner

Thanks in advance

Look into some of the lexmarks 1145, 3150. They have a roller instead of a sep pad. We have a lot in the field used for heavy faxing and the adfs hold up pretty good.

[JR2ALTA]

Re: Desktop Scanning

Desktop machines are designed to fill a particular price point. The parts required for a high capacity document feeder would exceed the price point and space requirements of every desktop unit I have seen. There is a solution it is called a scanner. They come in many volume levels have durable parts and cost way more than your customers are willing to spend even though they should. Even higher end MFP products don't have the same reliability of a good commercial grade scanner, but we as an industry tend to give away scans on MFPs making the customers that would benefit from a commercial scanner unwilling to pay for one.

Thanks for the thoughtful insight

[JR2ALTA]

Re: Desktop Scanning

Look into some of the lexmarks 1145, 3150. They have a roller instead of a sep pad. We have a lot in the field used for heavy faxing and the adfs hold up pretty good.

Funny you mention. That's the model (3150) that's giving me all the grief.

[seansbar]

Re: Desktop Scanning

They may have a roller, but its really small. The primary complaint when I get calls on 3150 or 1145 is DF jams. Usually just a good cleaning on those tires and everything is fine.

But if they are using those models as a scanner primary, they are not going to have a fun time.

[bsm2]

Re: Desktop Scanning

This is why companies JUST make Scanners, do your customer a favor have them buy one.

[blackcat4866]

Re: Desktop Scanning

This is why companies JUST make Scanners, do your customer a favor have them buy one.

I have to agree with this one. Canon and Fuji make rock solid page scanners that have a small footprint, and process the images quickly (unlike a lot of MFPs). They can handle hundreds of thousands of pages with minimal maintenance. That's what you need, not a Lexmark. =^..^=

[JR2ALTA]

Re: Desktop Scanning

This is why companies JUST make Scanners, do your customer a favor have them buy one.

I guess, but if someone asked me a desktop mfp with damn near ZERO cassette jams, I'd say lexmark 3150

So I thought I'd ask about a dekstop mfp with a nice adf, that's all

knowledge is good

[KenB]

Re: Desktop Scanning

I have to agree with this one. Canon and Fuji make rock solid page scanners that have a small footprint, and process the images quickly (unlike a lot of MFPs). They can handle hundreds of thousands of pages with minimal maintenance. That's what you need, not a Lexmark. =^..^=

I totally agree, too.

Fujitsu makes some very nice scanners that would fit the bill, too.

You can do waaay more with a dedicated scanner than any MFP, aside from the reliability standpoint.

They can be set up with various scanning profiles, and scanning can be done with one push of a button.

Better gamma and color correction, image quality control, OCR (even some zonal OCR) are quite common.

Some can even write scanned, zonal OCRed metadata to an XML file that will hand off to a document management system.