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Canon CanoScan FB620U USB Flatbed Scanner
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Canon CanoScan FB620U USB Flatbed Scanner List Price: $114.99


Features
 High quality 600 x 600, 36-bit color scans
 One-touch scanning button
 USB port for easy connectivity
 Y2K ready
 Top quality, award-winning bundled software
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Canon CanoScan FB620U USB Flatbed Scanner description
The CanoScan FB620U seems barely bigger than the documents it scans. However, this little machine is packed with power--it makes high-quality scans of graphics, photos, line art, or text, and offers great imaging and optical character recognition (OCR) software for an incredibly low price.

To set up the CanoScan, we attached the cable to our PC, plugged in the AC adapter, dropped in the CD-ROM, and followed the setup wizard. (If you restart your computer before running the CanoScan's setup wizard, you can cancel the Windows New Hardware Installation wizard that runs automatically.) When following the setup wizard, make sure you indicate that you want to install the 620P, not the 320P whose drivers are also included on the same CD-ROM.

In our tests of the CanoScan, we first conducted preview scans of several documents and images just to get acquainted with the scanner. These preview scans and other low resolution scans (75 dpi) were fast and easy, but high-resolution scans were much slower. Still, the images were sharp and clear, and the final scans were comparable to those of much more expensive scanners.

If you're looking for an inexpensive, light-duty scanner that's easy to set up and learn, the CanoScan makes a fine choice.

Pros:

  • Lightweight, small, and portable
  • Easy setup

Cons:

  • Slow scanning in high resolution
Canon CanoScan FB620U USB Flatbed Scanner Customer Reviews
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♥♥♥♥ works fine on Windows XP
I wanted to let everyone know this machine works fine with Windows XP. Canon has updated the drivers and they are easy to download from the Canon site and come with detailed instructions. After loading with Windows XP drivers, this machine was scanning in documents just fine using Adobe 6.0. The machine is made for Windows 98 so is selling very inexpensively used, particularly on ebay where I got mine for under $15.

So, the obvious advantages are that Canon still supports this unit even under Windows XP (media version with SP2), the machine is inexpensive used, and it is a great scanner. The downside is it is noisy, slow, and was never meant to be a high volume scanner. But for a home PC and light home usage, this is still a venerable old scanner. And, thanks to Canon (as opposed to say Visioneer who gives up on old scanners instead of re-writing the drivers for the new OS), this Canoscan is still doing a fine job on a later model Windows XP (service pack 2 media edition). If you need an inexpensive scanner, I highly recommend it.
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