Visioneer PhotoPort 7700 Flatbed Scanner

Amazon.com Product Description
The 7700 from Visioneer is a high-quality scanner that offers 600 x 1,200 dpi optical resolution and 42-bit color recognition that is capable of capturing over 4.3 trillion colors. Visioneer also touts the 7700 as a "digital camera companion" and has provided slots for Smart Media and Compact Flash cards directly on the scanner. This means no more switching back and forth between scanner and camera. Just insert your camera's memory card into the slot and upload your pictures at impressively fast speeds.

OneTouch buttons make it exceptionally easy to post images on the Internet, print copies of digital scans, and much more. This PC-only scanner also comes with a nice software bundle that includes ScanSoft's PaperPort Deluxe 7.0, TextBridge Pro8.0, and MGI PhotoSuite III SE.

The 7700 connects to your computer via its USB port and comes backed with a one-year limited warranty.

Product Description:
The Visioneer PhotoPort 7700 USB Scanner is the next generation tool for managing your photos and documents. The PhotoPort 7700 USB integrates the award-winning Visioneer OneTouch scanning technology with high-speed digital camera memory card readers making it incredibly easy to scan traditional pictures or transfer digital camera images to you PC.The PhotoPort 7700 USB's built-in memory card readers make using your digital camera easier than ever. Just insert the SmartMedia, CompactFlash memory card or IBM Microdrive from your digital camera to automatically transfer images to the ScanSoft PaperPort deluxe software. Press the OneTouch Prints button to upload images to PhotoWorks and get inexpensive, long-lasting prints without leaving the comfort of your home. The OneTouch Prints button automatically scans traditional photos or transfers images from your digital camera�s memory card and sends them to the OneTouch PhotoWorks software. The OneTouch PhotoWorks software lets you easily zoom, crop, rotate and enlarge your pictures up to 8"x12" then upload them with one click of the mouse.When you need to get things done fast, you need Visioneer's revolutionary OneTouch technology. The scanner buttons are pre-configured to make scanning easier than ever. Just press a button for perfect results on everyday scanning tasks and Visioneer takes care of the details for you. Hold down a button to bring up the OneTouch preferences and customize the scan settings and destination for your images.

Visioneer PhotoPort 7700 Flatbed Scanner

Average customer rating:

Lousy image quality

Fine scanner, Very poor device driver

Drivers thin, performance subpar, glitches, colors, etc.

Love it!

Image quality sucks

Visioneer PhotoPort 7700 Flatbed Scanner

Manufacturer: Visioneer
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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Product Features:

CompactFlash and SmartMedia card slots on camera enables easy picture uploads

600 x 1,200 DPI optical resolution; 42-bit color recognition

OneTouch buttons post images to the Internet or print digital scans

Scanner comes with software bundle including; ScanSoft's PaperPort Deluxe 7.0, TextBridge Pro8.0, and MGI PhotoSuite III SE

1-year limited warranty

ASIN: B00005K1YV

Product Description

The Visioneer PhotoPort 7700 USB Scanner is the next generation tool for managing your photos and documents. The PhotoPort 7700 USB integrates the award-winning Visioneer OneTouch scanning technology with high-speed digital camera memory card readers making it incredibly easy to scan traditional pictures or transfer digital camera images to you PC.The PhotoPort 7700 USB's built-in memory card readers make using your digital camera easier than ever. Just insert the SmartMedia, CompactFlash memory card or IBM Microdrive from your digital camera to automatically transfer images to the ScanSoft PaperPort deluxe software. Press the OneTouch Prints button to upload images to PhotoWorks and get inexpensive, long-lasting prints without leaving the comfort of your home. The OneTouch Prints button automatically scans traditional photos or transfers images from your digital camera?s memory card and sends them to the OneTouch PhotoWorks software. The OneTouch PhotoWorks software lets you easily zoom, crop, rotate and enlarge your pictures up to 8"x12" then upload them with one click of the mouse.When you need to get things done fast, you need Visioneer's revolutionary OneTouch technology. The scanner buttons are pre-configured to make scanning easier than ever. Just press a button for perfect results on everyday scanning tasks and Visioneer takes care of the details for you. Hold down a button to bring up the OneTouch preferences and customize the scan settings and destination for your images.

Amazon.com Product Description

The 7700 from Visioneer is a high-quality scanner that offers 600 x 1,200 dpi optical resolution and 42-bit color recognition that is capable of capturing over 4.3 trillion colors. Visioneer also touts the 7700 as a "digital camera companion" and has provided slots for Smart Media and Compact Flash cards directly on the scanner. This means no more switching back and forth between scanner and camera. Just insert your camera's memory card into the slot and upload your pictures at impressively fast speeds.

The 7700 connects to your computer via its USB port and comes backed with a one-year limited warranty.

Customer Reviews:

Lousy image quality.......2004-06-11

The 7700 was a replacement for my years old Microtek X6 that had been a good scanner but was beginning to show its age. The drivers installed without a hitch and I was up and running in less than 10 minutes.

Unfortunately, the image quality of this scanner is terrible. I tried dozens of combinations of the manual settings, trying to get some scans that were acceptable. Even with the full "48 bits" skin tones and color graduatiions were completely unnatural. Add to this the occasional scan that had light verical lines. I returned the unit (thanks Amazon) and subsequently purchased a Canon LiDE 30 that works fine.

Fine scanner, Very poor device driver.......2004-03-13

I got the scanner from Amazon on sale! It took me about an hour to get it to work with Win XP (Installed the so-called XP certified updated driver from Visioneer web site). Still every time I start the PC, the driver works on a randomly fashion!

Apparently, this problem is very common and their customer support receives a lot of complaints about their drivers.

If you have WIN XP and you dont mind re-installing the driver every once a while, it might be a good scanner for you. The scanning quality is just fine.

Drivers thin, performance subpar, glitches, colors, etc........2003-08-27

In design, it seems sleek, useful < two card ports built right in> and fast. EXCEPT... Windows XP/XP Pro,, simply hates the drivers supplied. Constant battles to get the computer to not only recognize the scanner, but to KEEP IT installed.I have had many a fine day wasted just getting it reconfigured to work. NOTHING else is changed, yet the system constantly cant " find" the scanner. Just a nightmare that the drivers never seem to solve.
Now, performance. I have had numerous problems with severely distorted colors, mysterious " bands and streaks" across photos scanned, rendition and color way off the mark, all around, I would NEVER buy a visioneer again. I bought a 5820 to try n get buy with it, till I can afford a Minolta 5400 or Dual Scan elite, the visioneer 5820 wont even operate or configure with XP.visoneer has a lousy reputation with Windows, and Win XP goes to great lengths to make sure you DONT purchase another Visioneer scanner. I cant rate it lower than 1 star, or i would.

Love it!.......2003-07-09

The software Visioneer provides with their scanners is what sets them apart from Epson, HP, Canon, and all the others. Forget multiple scanning operations and fiddling with setting to get the scan right. Kiss cheap drivers goodbye.

There are multiple buttons on the scanner itself which are preprogrammed for the "one-touch scanning" feature, or you can program them yourself using the software. Press a button, and it just does what you want. You can send the output to wherever you choose, whether it be straight to the printer, to the scan software, or to your photo editing program. Have your document OCRed and sent to Word. Fax it to someone. The flexibility of this scanner is amazing. And it all comes preprogrammed for those who don't know or don't care how to customize it.

I love Visioneer and have three of their scanners (office, home 1, and home 2). Check them out!

Image quality sucks.......2002-11-21

I upgraded to the 7700 from the old 6100B. I'd got great scans from that scanner, so thought i'd stick with Visioneer. BIG MISTAKE! The image quality of this scanner [is bad]. I too went through many hastles trying to install on an XP machine. Finally i succeeded, but when i scan, i get bad contouring of the image (scan pictures with lots of sky, or skin tones and you can see steps in the color) and quite often, lots of lines across the scan.
After hours of technical support (most of which were waiting for someone to answer the phone), and after being instructed to reinstal the software twice, they sent me a new scanner. Same problem! I heard CIS scanners has poor image quality, but this thing is un-usable....

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