Canon DR-2080C Color Document Scanner

Amazon.com Product Description
A compact scanner from Canon, the DR-2080 provides high quality color scans and fits onto nearly any convenient surface. A 24-bit color depth provides brilliant colors, while a 600 x 600 dpi maximum resolution ensures that even the fine print is clear and legible.

The DR-2080C connects to a host computer via either a USB 2.0 or SCSI-II port, and supports Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP, and NT operating systems. Able to handle originals up to 8.5 by 14 inches, the DR-2080C still has a very small 11.7-by-3.89-inch footprint, freeing up valuable desktop space for other uses, while a weight of just 5.5 makes transportation a snap.

The included Canon CapturePerfect software provides a quick and easy editing tool for your scans, and sports a scan-to-email feature that lets you send originals directly from the scanner. Optical character recognition allows you to easily create searchable text files out of your scans, while a pre-scan feature lets users adjust scan settings on one page, then apply those settings to an entire batch scan.

Scanning speeds in simplex mode are as fast as 20 ppm, while duplex mode supports speeds of up to 40 ppm. The automatic document feeder lets you scan up to 50 pages with the touch of a button and supports originals of up to 0.2 mm in thickness. The DR-2080C also comes backed with a one year limited warranty.

What's in the Box
Scanner with document feeding system, AC power, cable, software CD-ROM, setup instructions, warranty

Product Description:
From forms and vouchers to contracts and color documents, the DR-2080C provides a quick and easy way to handle a wide range of documents. Its full array of software features ensures great results for practically every job. And a user-friendly design makes it ideal for workgroups and for distributed scanning applications.With a footprint of less than 30 x 10 cm (11.7 x 3.9 in.), the DR-2080C is one of the smallest document scanners available, and will fit on just about any desktop or counter space. The key to its size is a compact sensor unit, which has the further benefits of low power consumption and zero warm-up time. The DR-2080C scans A4/LTR-size documents at speeds of up to 20 pages per minute, or 39 images per minute in duplex mode (200dpi). Best of all, grayscale images can be scanned at the same speeds as binary (black and white) ones. This scanner also offers top-class image resolution: up to 600dpi in binary, grayscale, or 24-bit color. Smooth feeding is essential to efficient scanning. Thanks to its advanced roller mechanism, the DR-2080C reliably feeds each page in a batch, avoiding troublesome double feeds that slow users down. What's more, feeding can be easily adjusted to handle thin or thick paper, small items such as business cards, and multi-sheet forms printed on carbonless paper.

Canon DR-2080C Color Document Scanner

Average customer rating:

Software for the scanner includes spyware

Excellent

Beautiful little scanner

Great little scanner

Excellent for travelling

Canon DR-2080C Color Document Scanner

Manufacturer: Canon Office Products
ProductGroup: CE
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Product Features:

50-pg. ADF, 24-bit color

20ppm black/7ppm color

600dpi, SCSI-II interface

Small, 11.7-by-3.89-inch footprint

USB 2.0 and SCSI-2 interfaces; PC compatible

ASIN: B00006L4XD

Product Description

From forms and vouchers to contracts and color documents, the DR-2080C provides a quick and easy way to handle a wide range of documents. Its full array of software features ensures great results for practically every job. And a user-friendly design makes it ideal for workgroups and for distributed scanning applications.With a footprint of less than 30 x 10 cm (11.7 x 3.9 in.), the DR-2080C is one of the smallest document scanners available, and will fit on just about any desktop or counter space. The key to its size is a compact sensor unit, which has the further benefits of low power consumption and zero warm-up time. The DR-2080C scans A4/LTR-size documents at speeds of up to 20 pages per minute, or 39 images per minute in duplex mode (200dpi). Best of all, grayscale images can be scanned at the same speeds as binary (black and white) ones. This scanner also offers top-class image resolution: up to 600dpi in binary, grayscale, or 24-bit color. Smooth feeding is essential to efficient scanning. Thanks to its advanced roller mechanism, the DR-2080C reliably feeds each page in a batch, avoiding troublesome double feeds that slow users down. What's more, feeding can be easily adjusted to handle thin or thick paper, small items such as business cards, and multi-sheet forms printed on carbonless paper.

Amazon.com Product Description

A compact scanner from Canon, the DR-2080 provides high quality color scans and fits onto nearly any convenient surface. A 24-bit color depth provides brilliant colors, while a 600 x 600 dpi maximum resolution ensures that even the fine print is clear and legible.

What's in the Box
Scanner with document feeding system, AC power, cable, software CD-ROM, setup instructions, warranty

Customer Reviews:

Software for the scanner includes spyware.......2005-05-07

The scanner seems to do well with scanning to .pdf files. The OCR software does not seem very good, though, and the document feeder has not worked too well for me. Most frustrating is that the software for the scanner includes SPYWARE that Norton Antivirus has identified and cannot remove. My efforts to follow Norton instructions on how to remove the spyware from my registry also has not worked.

Shame on Canon.

Excellent.......2004-08-10

I had been shopping for a scanner for a while. I have several files and needed to reduce my paper documents. I took the advice of the previous reviewer and purchased the DR-2080-C. It's simply superb. The speed of the scanner is marvelous. I was once at Best Buy and overhead a shopper saying that it doesn't matter what Canon makes, it's the best. I wholeheartedly agree with her.

Beautiful little scanner.......2004-07-04

This is actually a very good scanner. It scans pretty quickly at 200 dpi/black-and-white OCR - it took me about an hour to scan in and OCR 400+ pages of class readings. I'm not exactly sure about the timing, since I wandered away every so often for a while. The duplex features are great - especially the option to remove blank pages. You can also change the threshold on what the software considers a blank page - it asks you to specify percent coverage, although they use a different term.

Complaints about this product that caused me to give it less than 5 stars:

1. As the last reviewer said, putting in the paper adjusters prevent the flap from closing.

2. It states on the DR-2080C's brochure (downloadable from Canon's website) that it is "Able to scan batches of mixed documents of different sizes, shapes, and weight." I took this to mean that you can drop differently-sized papers into the scanner, and it will scan it for you correctly and automatically, thus not requiring you to sit there and feed a stack of differently-sized papers one-by-one through the machine. I was mistaken however - the user manual says that you should sort your papers by different sizes and shapes before scanning them. When you do drop papers of different sizes in there, it will try to scan them, but the smaller sheets will be skewed and then incorrectly de-skewed.

3. Feeding stacks of paper into the scanner is a tad tricky - you have to wiggle it around a bit or the scanner will not be able to detect that any papers are in the ADF.

Canon also sells additional rollers so that you can replace them yourself without having to return the scanner to the manufacturer. If you use a Linux system, so long as you have a kernel that supports USB, a copy of VMWare (you can download a 30-day trial version for free) and a copy of Windows, the scanner works just fine.

Great little scanner.......2004-07-02

This is a great scanner, and you can't beat the price. As others have already noted, it is better than some scanners costing thousands more. I love it's size, speed, and duplex scanning features. I do have some complaints though:

1. Installing the paper guides prevents the dust cover from being closed

2. The deskew and border removal functions don't always work as expected (they remove more than required, and you can't control how much to remove)

3. The bundled software is clunky and stupid (for example, you can't use the arrow or page up/page down keys to navigate through a scanned document). Ditto for the help files, although that seems to be true of most software from Japanese hardware makers; for heavens sakes, folks, hire some native English speakers! The software also has some bugs, e.g., it frequently has "file access errors" when trying to append pages to existing files. However, it is fairly easy to use, and is good enough for low volume scanning.

Some tips:

1. Don't adjust the paper guides too snugly against the paper; the automatic feeder requires some "wiggle room" to catch the paper.

2. Use the "Scan ahead" mode to speed up scanning.

3. If you're creating PDFs, get Adobe Acrobat (the full version, not the free reader) to manipulate your PDFs.

4. Set up custom paper sizes to quickly scan odd-sized documents like credit card statements, etc.

In spite of my complaints about the software, I'd highly recommend this scanner (in any case, my complaints are moot if you use some other scanning software). In the week since I got this scanner, I've scanned more than two thousand pages, scanning for a few hours every day (most of the time was spent organizing and ordering the documents). My big, ugly filing cabinet is almost empty...hurray!

You can get a cheaper scanner from Visioneer, but the ADF on that sucks. The DR-2080C uses an almost straight-through paper path, so very thin, very thick, or creased paper doesn't jam as much as with scanners that use a U-shaped path.

Excellent for travelling.......2003-11-04

This unit is small and compact, yet has some very nice features. I especially like the duplexing feature allowing it to scan BOTH sides in the same pass, no flipping a stack of documents over. It works from within Adobe, and Microsoft Office Imaging.

It does have a drawback, however, the drivers are not Windows XP, and it can be a bit disconcerting installing them. I finished the installation with no adverse affects (that I noticed) to my 2 laptops, and a stand alone machine.

If you travel and need a high speed scanner, I highly recommend this unit.

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