CANON DR-3080C HIGH SPEED DUPLEX COLOR SCANNER images



Flatbeds are fine for scanning photos, but for stacks of pages you need a sheet-feeder. When the stacks top 100 pages or have images on both sides of the page, you need a scanner like the Canon DR-3080C Document Scanner, a duplexing, 24-bit color scanner that can scan letter-size pages at up to 43 sheets per minute—or 86 images per minute (ipm) in duplex mode. Maximum resolution is 300 dpi, easily enough for tasks such as storing documents as images or scanning them for OCR.

The DR-3080C's high speed and 100-sheet capacity peg it as a departmental scanner, but at 13.5 by 7.5 by 11 inches, the unit is small enough to share a desk with other equipment in a small office. Its only connection choice is SCSI, although it doesn't come with either a SCSI card or cable. Setup is a matter of plugging in the power cord and cable, setting the SCSI ID and terminator, and installing the software.

The DR-3080C delivers on speed. Using a OLD 1-GHz Pentium III system with 256MB of RAM and an Adaptec 2940 PCI card (INCLUDED), we scanned 150 book pages (75 sheets of paper) at 200 dpi in black-and-white mode in 86 seconds—almost 105 ipm for the 6- by 9-inch pages. The DR-3080C can scan from business card–size to 10.1- by 14.3-inch paper.

For color scanning, the DR-3080C can scan the same number of sheets per minute, because it has two contact image sensors: one for the front of the page and one for the back. Only the front sensor offers color, however, which means that you can scan color only in simplex mode (at 10 ipm). Ultimately, the high-speed DR-3080C is suitable for any office that needs to scan lots of documents.


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