[X4U] sheetfed scanners

[Michael Elliott]

I just purchased a Brother MFC-3200C multifunction machine from 
Officemax 2 weeks ago, for $79 after rebate.  I see that the same 
rebate is available tomorrow (sunday sept 19).

The printer has crappy reviews on Amazon.com; however, I bought it 
purely as a sheetfed scanner, as I'm trying to archive a ton of 
standard and legal-sized documents.  It is capable of doing just about 
any scanning except, of course, for a book or something bulky and NOT 
sheetfed.

The sheet feeder holds, officially, 20 sheets, but I have used it with 
many more.  Depending on the type of paper, it DOES require some 
babysitting to get it to work well, but overall I'm very pleased for 
the money.

I'm mainly using it to scan at 200x200 dpi in black and white, since 
I'm scanning documents, and can usually get 20 pages scanned in well 
under a minute.  Higher resolution and grayscale and color, of course, 
take longer, sometimes much longer.

It is also a stand-alone fax machine, and functions as a basic copier 
and printer.  However, I've had it for two weeks, and haven't even 
installed the ink.

It comes with a basic program called Presto! Pagemaker, however it is 
somewhat unMaclike, but it IS OSX native as far as I can tell.

I'm using GraphicConverter to do the captures, and save the multipage 
files as PDFs.

If you'd like any specific stats on the machine, let me know.

Michael



  Sep 15, 2004, at 1:50 AM, Michael Grant wrote:

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> So is anyone making Mac-compatible sheetfed scanners these days? I
> used to love my little Visioneer Strobe....
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> Michael