Canon CanoScan 8800F Color Image Scanner (2168B002)
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Digital Photo Product Details
Manufacturer: Canon Office ProductsFormat: CD
Platform: Windows XP
Model: 2168B002
Color: Gray/Black
Product features:
- Color film, negative, photo scanner featuring high-luminance white LED lamps helps to scan, copy, and create emails and multi-paged PDFs
- Batch-scan up to 4 slides or 12 35mm frames and rich, vivid color: 48-bit color depth yields over 281 trillion possible colors
- Digitally remove dust, scratches, and other imperfections from old or precious photos
- Large function buttons automate the scanning process-select the use for the image, and it's ready in seconds
- Built-in retouching technology removes much of the dust and scratches on original prints, improving image quality
- AmazonBasics USB 2.0 A-Male to Mini-B Cable (6 Feet / 1.8 Meters)
- AmazonBasics USB 2.0 A-Male to B-Male Cable (6 Feet / 1.8 Meters)
Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Canon CanoScan 8800F Color Image Scanner (2168B002)
Customer Review: Best Flatbed, Easy to Use
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a well-designed product. Easy to use, fast, reliable, nice-looking.
Here are its best features:
1. Copy
Scanned then immediately printed (the computer must be on, but no interaction is required).
2. Scan
Grab a photo and either
a) Write it to disk, or
b) Send it to Photoshop (whitespace already trimmed!)
3. Create PDF
To scan a multi-page document, then send a single file to someone, the scanner will create a PDF.
Press one button to add a page and another button to complete the PDF.
4. E-Mail
This button scans a smaller version, then automatically opens a New E-Mail window.
Just type your message, then click Send.
Pressing a button on the scanner not only starts the scanning process, but opens the software interface on the computer. This can come in handy, as mentioned below. There is an option place several scans into a single PDF file. I find this very useful.
This is NOT a small scanner (it's nearly a foot wide and 1 1/2 times that deep). But it's the best I've found. Fast startup, reasonably quick scanning, great quality, and usable software. The LED lighting really makes a difference. I hate waiting for scanners/copiers to warm up. And with this scanner, there is no wait. Even if you leave it off, from the time you press the On button, it pops up its interface on the computer and is ready to scan in 5 seconds. Press Scan Photo and in 15 more seconds, your scan is waiting for you in Photoshop (assuming Photoshop is already running):
* 3-5 secs to begin scanning once a button is pressed
* 6 secs to scan the image/document
* 2-3 secs to transfer it to the computer
The software could be better:
a) It could be better named.
It's difficult to remember that it's called "MP Navigator". I find myself hunting for it every time I want to bring up the software interface manually. What was that called again...? Searching for "scanner" or "8800" in your Windows 7 Start menu, for example, won't find it. So create a Shortcut to it named "Scanner" so you can easily find it when you want to complete a scan without walking over to the scanner.
b) It brings up a modal dialog before/during scanning (!)
Each time a scan is started, the scanner software comes to the front, intercepting any keyboard input.
This is very annoying if you're trying to work in the background while scanning. For example, if you're retouching one image while scanning the next, a moment after the Scan button is pressed, you will be switched out of Photoshop and the Scanner software panel comes to the front, telling you that scanning is in progress and not to lift the lid. Hello??! Isn't that obvious? This is not a loud scanner, but you can *definitely* hear the mechanism moving and know when it is scanning v.s. when it has finished.
I do not know a way around this, which means that I cannot edit in the background uninterrupted while new images are scanned and brought into Photoshop.
Canon should supply an option to NOT bring the MP Navigator software to the front after it is initially opened. I'd rather have no interface displayed at all (since I have it set to send all "Photo" scans to Photoshop. But it is nevertheless sometimes useful to have the interface available. Why? The front panel of the 8800f actually has 7 scan buttons (!). 3 for different types of PDF plus 1 to complete a multi-page PDF document. So if you're sitting at your desk and realize that there are no more pages, you can just click the "complete PDF" button on your computer's software panel, then immediately e-mail it, without having to walk back over to the scanner first. (This happens more often than you'd think.)
To e-mail a single scan, there is a button labeled "E-MAIL". It just places the scan in your outbox, if your e-mail program isn't set to send immediately. In that case, you'll subsequently need to open Outlook and click Send to get it to go out immediately.
Photo scan quality is excellent. It will scan to a file, or directly to Photoshop. Whitespace around the image is nicely automatically eliminated.
But there are sometimes issues with clipping a portion of the photograph when it's pushed up against the left side. I've had better luck with aligning the image on the right edge, but saw it happen once there, as well. Maybe the software sometimes gets a little aggressive with the auto-trimming. When it happens this can be very annoying, if you're scanning an entire page and can't move it around much on the bed of the scanner to get a clean scan. But it seems to happen only rarely, and everything else about this scanner works so flawlessly that I'm overlooking it for now.
All scanners should work this well. But they don't.
So clear some desk space and get ready for your most pleasant scanning experience in this price range to date.
Description of Canon CanoScan 8800F Color Image Scanner (2168B002)
The Canon CanoScan 8800F Color Film/Negative/Photo Scanner features high-luminance white LED lamps, which means it, can scan immediately without warming up. It?s simple, streamlined design includes seven simple buttons you use to scan, copy, create emails and multi-page PDFs, and automatically scan with an incredible color resolution-up to 4800 by 9600 dpi. With the CanoScan's sophisticated retouching technology, you can improve old and precious photos by digitally removing dust and scratches from antique, faded, or otherwise aging prints. The CanoScan 8800F is able to simultaneously scan up to four slides or twelve 35-millimeter frames, using either positives or negatives. In addition, a USB 2.0 interface makes scanning and image transfers faster than ever. Sleek and fast, this powerful scanner will impress you the very first time you push power. You'll quickly produce spectacular results, with max color dpi resolution of 4800 x 9600. Seven easy buttons automate the scanning process, so it's simple to scan, copy and create e-mails and multi-page PDFs. Built-in FARE 3.0 retouching technology helps to enhance your final images. And to save time, you can batch-scan up to twelve 35mm frames or up to four slides-either positives or negatives.The Canon CanoScan 8800F Color Film/Negative/Photo Scanner features high-luminance white LED lamps, which means it can scan immediately without warming up. Its simple, streamlined design includes seven simple buttons you use to scan, copy, create emails and multi-page PDFs, and automatically scan with an incredible color resolution--up to 4800 by 9600 dpi. With the CanoScan's sophisticated retouching technology, you can improve old and precious photos by digitally removing dust and scratches from antique, faded, or otherwise aging prints. The CanoScan 8800F is able to simultaneously scan up to four slides or twelve 35-millimeter frames, using either positives or negatives. In addition, a USB 2.0 interface makes scanning and image transfers faster than ever.
The CanoScan 8800F includes a compact 10.7-by-18.9-by-4-inch design and weighs 9.2 pounds. This flatbed, color, and monochrome scanner is compatible with Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Mac OSX 10.2.8 through 10.4.x. It includes a CD-ROM with printer driver, setup software, and user's guide, Adobe Photoshop Elements, ArcSoft PhotoStudio, MP Navigator EX, NewSoft Presto! PageManager (Windows only), and ScanSoft OmniPage SE. In addition, the manufacturer offers a 1-year limited warranty.
What's in the Box
CanoScan 8800F color scanner, AC adapter, Adobe Photoshop Elements CD-ROM, cross sell sheet, quick start guide, setup software and user's guide CD-ROM, warranty card, film guides (35-millimeter negative/positive, 35-millimeter negative/positive mounted slides, 120 roll film strip), power cord, and USB cable.
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