[X4U] sheetfed scanners

[Jeff Carruthers]

On Sep 19, 2004, at 12:53 AM, Michael Elliott wrote:

> 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
>
Michael: I'd be interested in learning how easy the sheetfed scanner is 
to use in OSX. I've been thinking about buying an all-in-one, but the 
Brother machines I've looked only seem to be supported in OS9. Also, is 
the printer an inkjet or a laser?

I need to scan documents to pdf and then post them on our website, so 
200 or 300 dpi would be nice. I currently have an HP sheetfeed scanner 
and I either scan directly to Acrobat or to tiff and then Omnipage, to 
pdf. If the scan is good enough, I then use Acrobat to then do an OCR 
capture, so the documents have text as well as image.

Thanks in advance.

Jeff
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