HP ScanJet 2300c Flatbed Scanner

From the Manufacturer
The HP ScanJet 2300c makes getting started on your creative home projects a snap. With two one-touch buttons, this easy-to-use scanner provides great results, with up to 600 x 1,200 dpi and 48-bit color. Scan text, graphics, photos, and even 3-D objects. Then print, e-mail, and post to the Web with ease. The scanner includes intuitive software and offers quick and easy installation with full-speed USB connection to USB-compatible PCs.

With the included HP Memories disc-creator software, you can create your own digital slide shows and view them on a PC or TV via a DVD player. Further, you can save time and paper by arranging a photo in many sizes on a single sheet. Other features include one-touch scan and copy buttons, optical character-recognition (OCR) software, scan-to-CD feature, and a preview-scan speed of merely 14 seconds. The USB interface supports Windows XP, 2000 Professional, Me, and 98 operating systems.

Product Description:
Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 2300C is great for your creative projects - easily scan photos, 3D objects, text and graphics at the touch of a button. Included HP Memories Disc Creator software lets you create your own CD compilation of images and music. The HP ScanJet 2300C features easy one-touch scanning and copying, optimum image quality for printing, emailing or web posting and full-speed USB connection for faster results.Scan your favorite images or photos into your PC. With HP Memories Disc Creator software, you can create a CD presentation of your photos, complete with your choice of background music. The CD presentation can be created in different formats (PAL, NTSC, etc) for easy playback on most VCD and DVD players. Intuitive software helps you design your CD jewel cover case. Enjoy high-quality images with up to 600 dpi optical resolution and 48-bit color. Speedy preview scans in as little as 14 seconds.

HP ScanJet 2300c Flatbed Scanner
Average customer rating:

Prone to hardware failure

Works great and is versatile!

Never buy HP again!

Good scanner.

Don't buy this scanner

HP ScanJet 2300c Flatbed Scanner

Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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HP C3836A Premium Inkjet Glossy Paper (50-Sheets)

Belkin F3U134-10 USB Extension Cable (10-Feet)

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Product Features:

600 x 1,200 dpi optical resolution, 48-bit color

Scans text, graphics, photos, and 3-D objects

Easily prints, e-mails, and posts images to the Web

Simple installation; full-speed USB 2.0 connection

HP Memories disc-creator software for slide shows on a PC or TV via a DVD player

ASIN: B00006AMS5
Release Date: 2002-08-31

Product Description

Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 2300C is great for your creative projects - easily scan photos, 3D objects, text and graphics at the touch of a button. Included HP Memories Disc Creator software lets you create your own CD compilation of images and music. The HP ScanJet 2300C features easy one-touch scanning and copying, optimum image quality for printing, emailing or web posting and full-speed USB connection for faster results.Scan your favorite images or photos into your PC. With HP Memories Disc Creator software, you can create a CD presentation of your photos, complete with your choice of background music. The CD presentation can be created in different formats (PAL, NTSC, etc) for easy playback on most VCD and DVD players. Intuitive software helps you design your CD jewel cover case. Enjoy high-quality images with up to 600 dpi optical resolution and 48-bit color. Speedy preview scans in as little as 14 seconds.

Customer Reviews:

Prone to hardware failure.......2004-11-13

All HP Scanjets, EXCEPT HP Scanjet 2300c, are equipped with an exclusive combination of two sensors: Staggered pixel CCD and Tri-linear CCD.

Also...

Long story, short: In a period of exactly 2 years, I've seen two HP Scanjet 2300c scanners fail due to hardware issues. My original newly-bought HP Scanjet 2300c couldn't slide the moving device under the glass all the way after less than a year. A year after that, the refurbished HP Scanjet 2300c replacement, sent by HP to replace the original, had a lamp failure, causing heavily faded images with green tint. HP tech support also suggested interference with other electronics near the scanner (speakers, monitors, computer...).

Perhaps I was terribly unlucky. The HP Scanjet 2300c had excellent quality...when it worked. But reliability and lifespan are both important as well.

Works great and is versatile!.......2004-10-26

I have used mine not only for making copies of documents but also to scan coins (e.g.- for sale on eBay). It works great! The top cover can be easily raised an inch or so for larger objects. Speed and scan quality have been fine for my purposes.

Never buy HP again!.......2004-09-01

Where is the zero star???? Every HP product I have ever own sucked. We used to buy HP inkjet printers and after one would break, we would buy another one to replace it. Talk about stupid. Finally replaced it with a Canon i950. Absolutely no problem. So I see this HP scanner for sale and I decide to give HP another try and I buy it. All the scans have a freaking vertical blue line intersecting every scan. Piece of sh*t scanner. I returned it the next day and vowed to never ever buy another HP product.

Good scanner........2004-07-10

Good scanner, decent software.

The scanner itself is lightweight and somewhat small, though it is not intended for space-saving. It's not bulky like most Visioneer models, but it's not slim, either. The one problem I have with the scanner itself is that the top often slides off when I don't intend it to, and it's annoying to have to put the little hinges back into the scanner.

The quality is okay; it's not something I'd use to scan pictures and expect them to be all perfect quality, but I scan art with this scanner, and for that purpose it is sufficient. It's not meant for something professional, and for the price it is well worth it.

As far as the software goes... the people complaining that it makes their computers freeze probably have a technical problem with their computers, not the actual scanner or the scanner software. Problems such as this could easily be fixed if people had the incentive to actually learn a little something about computers, instead of expecting the entire digital world to work with the simplicity and "user friendly" ease of AOL or Windows XP. It'd be nice if all of the digital world did work like that, but the real world doesn't, either. Sometimes it's a simple problem such as a driver incorrectly installed or the wrong driver installed (which, in most cases, is the USER's fault) and people spend months struggling with their computers going haywire. Then they end up complaining that it's the company's fault, when a lot of times I'm just seeing it's the innate inability for some humans to interact with technology. I'm just a little tired of seeing good products get bad reviews and bad ratings because people don't know how to work with technology.

Tangent aside, this is pretty much a good scanner with decent software (personally, I prefer importing the images through Adobe, but, whatever).

Don't buy this scanner.......2003-12-30

Don't buy this scanner.
Though the hardware is reasonable at the price (but mine malfunctions if placed too close to the computer), the software is truly the worst software of any type that I have seen in recent years. The software has infuriating problems such as refusing to scan an image of standard dimensions unless I preview every scan. As a result this scanner is very hard and very slow to use for scanning printed documents intended to send to an OCR package. I was expecting it to be slow but it is unspeakably slow because the software is VERY slow to laod and initialize and many of the software features can't be used and workarounds are needed at every turn. I was trying to use it on an 800MHz Windows 98 computer. The updated drivers on the HP web site are in some ways worse than the older ones. When you've wrestled with it for an hour to scan in a simple 15 page document you will get the idea. Best avoided if you can find any alternative.

HP ScanJet 2300C - Flatbed scanner - 8.5 in x 11.7 in - 600 dpi x 1200 dpi - USB

Average customer rating:

HP ScanJet 2300C - Flatbed scanner - 8.5 in x 11.7 in - 600 dpi x 1200 dpi - USB

ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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ASIN: B00066HJYS

Product Description

Average customer rating:

HP ScanJet 2300C - Flatbed scanner - 8.5 in x 11.7 in - 600 dpi x 1200 dpi - USB

Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

Digital Imaging | Hewlett-Packard | Camera & Photo Brands | Camera & Photo Features | Electronics

Image Scanners | Hewlett-Packard | Camera & Photo Brands | Camera & Photo Features | Electronics

All Hewlett-Packard | Hewlett-Packard | Computers Brands | Computers Features | Electronics

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ASIN: B0009MOC1W

Product Description

Preview your scanned text, graphics, and photos in about 15 seconds using the "Scan" and "Copy" buttons with HP ScanJet 2300c digital flatbed scanner. Get crisp, vibrant results with up to 600 x 1200 dpi and 48-bit color for printing, e-mailing, or posting on the Web. Full-speed USB connection installs in seconds and works with today's popular PC operating systems: Microsoft Windows 98, 2000, Me, and XP.

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