At 70.6ppm and 133.3ipm, the Patriot H80 leads this pack. This is one of the more impressive performances I’ve seen. It blew through our one-sided document at an average rate of 61.2ppm, and our two-sided (50 images) document at 124.4ipm. The first test entailed timing the Raven Pro as it scanned our one- and two-sided 25-page Microsoft Word text documents and saved them to image PDF files. I also did a set of tests with the onboard interface. I ran my test over a USB 3.0 connection using Raven PC running on our standard Intel Core i5 testbed PC running Windows 10 Professional. The others are slower still, some significantly so. Brother’s ADS-3600W is rated at 50ppm and 100ipm. ![]() Of the machines discussed here so far, the Raven Pro is among the quickest, only topped by Visioneer’s Patriot H80, rated at 80ppm and 160ipm. Raven rates the Pro at 60 one-sided pages per minute (ppm) and 120 two-sided images per minute (or ipm, with each page side being an image). Regardless of fancy features, a scanner’s speed and accuracy are its bread and butter. Raven also produces a $25 box of Raven Document Scanner Cleaning Wipes (what makes these different from other appliance cleaning wipes is unclear), a $35 pack of screen protectors for the display, a $15 pre-inked "SCANNED" stamp, and a $45 replacement ADF roller kit (slated for replacement every 150,000 scans). The Canon ScanFront 400 weighs about a pound more, but then its color touch screen is 2.1 inches bigger (10.1 inches, the same area as a full-size tablet). ![]() The Alaris E1035 (another Editors’ Choice recipient) is a few inches taller and longer than the Raven Pro, and it weighs 2 pounds less. The 8-inch interface adds a bit of weight for the size: Canon’s imageFormula DR-C230 Office Document Scanner (which has a much smaller control panel) has similar dimensions but weighs a full 3 pounds less. Measuring 7.0 by 12.4 by 8.2 inches (HWD) and weighing 9.2 pounds, the Raven Pro comes in all black or in two-tone, with a black base and trays and a white face. Many Devices Supported, But None Required The Raven Pro is fast, accurate, and easy to use, and it's our latest favorite medium- to high-volume networkable sheetfed desktop document scanner. Of the sheetfed document scanners we’ve reviewed over the past several years, only Canon’s much more expensive imageFormula ScanFront 400 and Fujitsu’s ScanSnap iX1600 (Editors’ Choice recipients both) come with relatively large touch screens. ![]() As long as you have the scanner connected to a network (for cloud storage) or storage device, no PC is required.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |