If you travel a lot, and deal with a lot of paper documents (how old-fashioned can you get?), a lightweight, portable scanner could be very handy. One of the latest to come on the market is the HP Scanjet Professional 1000 Mobile Scanner. Costing $230 direct ($250 minus a $20 instant rebate), the Scanjet offers quick and accurate scans on the road.
What does it do? The HP Scanjet Professional 1000 Mobile Scanner is a very down-and-dirty simple scanner. It has two buttons on its right side: a Cancel button and a Scan button. You simply place your document in the front scan slot (it takes anything from business cards up to 8.5 x 14 in. sheets), press the Scan button, and it pulls the sheet through.
At 1.4 lbs. and 11.4 x 3.0 x 2.0 in, the Scanjet is certainly light and small enough to pack away easily, and only needs a single lightweight USB 2.0 connection. Just to underline its use as a mobile device, the Scanjet comes with a rather snazzy carrying case.
And it's pretty speedy -- according to HP, it pulls pages through at approximately 5 ppm, and while it's difficult to really judge the speed of a single-page scanner, the documents did pass through it efficiently. The resulting scans (it boasts a maximum of 600 x 600 dpi) were almost always sharp and accurate.
Besides its standard TWAIN driver (for both Windows and Mac systems), the scanner comes with three useful applications (only for Windows, I'm afraid): Nuance Communications' PaperPort 11 document management package, NewSoft Presto! BizCard 6 business card organizer and Nuance's OmniPage 17 for OCR. All three are decent pieces of software and work well.
What needs to be fixed? It is, perhaps, a bit too basic. The scanner doesn't offer any kind of document feeder -- it's strictly a one-at-a-time sheet-fed device. This doesn't just mean that it's inconvenient (if you're scanning more than one or two documents or business cards, the single-feed process can get tedious), but also offers more opportunities for human error: I sometimes had to insert the paper more than once in order to have it catch properly.
Final verdict: The HP Scanjet Professional 1000 is lightweight, efficient and could be very useful if you travel for business. With one caveat: I would have preferred to have at least the option of a document feeder.
What does it do? The HP Scanjet Professional 1000 Mobile Scanner is a very down-and-dirty simple scanner. It has two buttons on its right side: a Cancel button and a Scan button. You simply place your document in the front scan slot (it takes anything from business cards up to 8.5 x 14 in. sheets), press the Scan button, and it pulls the sheet through.
At 1.4 lbs. and 11.4 x 3.0 x 2.0 in, the Scanjet is certainly light and small enough to pack away easily, and only needs a single lightweight USB 2.0 connection. Just to underline its use as a mobile device, the Scanjet comes with a rather snazzy carrying case.
And it's pretty speedy -- according to HP, it pulls pages through at approximately 5 ppm, and while it's difficult to really judge the speed of a single-page scanner, the documents did pass through it efficiently. The resulting scans (it boasts a maximum of 600 x 600 dpi) were almost always sharp and accurate.
Besides its standard TWAIN driver (for both Windows and Mac systems), the scanner comes with three useful applications (only for Windows, I'm afraid): Nuance Communications' PaperPort 11 document management package, NewSoft Presto! BizCard 6 business card organizer and Nuance's OmniPage 17 for OCR. All three are decent pieces of software and work well.
What needs to be fixed? It is, perhaps, a bit too basic. The scanner doesn't offer any kind of document feeder -- it's strictly a one-at-a-time sheet-fed device. This doesn't just mean that it's inconvenient (if you're scanning more than one or two documents or business cards, the single-feed process can get tedious), but also offers more opportunities for human error: I sometimes had to insert the paper more than once in order to have it catch properly.
Final verdict: The HP Scanjet Professional 1000 is lightweight, efficient and could be very useful if you travel for business. With one caveat: I would have preferred to have at least the option of a document feeder.
No comments :
Post a Comment