You can tell by the price tag that the imageFORMULA DR-3010C from Canon isn't your average desktop scanner. Indeed, at up to 30 double-sided pages per minute it's one of the quickest you can buy and, ...

Most people have an old pile of negatives lying around from the heady days of film-based cameras. Some may even have the job of getting some duplicates made or turning them into photos, way down on ...

The fi-6230 from Fujitsu differs from most other document scanners in that it's really two scanners in one. There's a sheet-fed scanner at the back to handle unbound documents, with a flatbed in front to handle ...

Business scanners, designed for high speed conversion of paper documents to digital ones, can cost a lot, but Kodak's ScanMate i1120 comes in at under £400 which is comparatively inexpensive. The ScanMate is designed much like ...

When Canon first introduced its LIDE flatbed scanners, they were the only devices on the market to be USB powered and ultra-slim. Then Xerox brought out its 7400 model, with a similar design to the LIDE. ...

There are scanners designed to transfer your photo prints to JPEGs, scanners designed to convert your transparencies to TIFFs and scanners whose sole purpose in life is to help create electronic records of paper documents. Xerox's ...

Flatbed scanner mechanisms are best known as the top parts of all-in-one machines, but they do have lives of their own, too. Epson's GT-1500 is a business scanner, as opposed to one intended for the home ...

Unlike most modern desktop scanners, which tend to be small and sleek, the Scanjet N8460 is a huge and far from elegant device. But then it's made that way for a reason. The reason being that ...

Technology is now advanced enough to have shrunk the traditional large-footprint scanner down to something that resembles the dimensions of a family-sized bar of Toblerone. Fujitsu has come up with something different with the ScanSnap S300, ...

Cheap desktop scanners are fine for the odd few documents here and there, but can't be shared on a network or cope with the demands of a document management system. For that you'll need something a ...

All-in-One printer/scanner/copier machines are all the rage at present, especially if you're trying to run a home office or small business on a fairly limited budget. However, the frustration for dedicated amateur and semi-pro photographers is ...

Flatbed scanners range from about £40 to several thousand pounds, so how does the technology improve as the price increases? The maximum resolution and colour depth of scans increases, facilities like transparency scanning come into play ...

Flatbed scanners don't sell in the numbers they used to, mainly because of the popularity of all-in-one devices, which put scan and print engines in the same box. For those who already have a printer they're ...

With the advent of digital camera memory cards and the all-in-one printer/scanner/copier/fax, you might think that the days of the humble stand-alone scanner have become numbered. However, there are still plenty of people who want to ...

As the latest innovation in photo printers is to move up from four colour cartridges to six, it was perhaps inevitable that the next technological advance for photo scanners was to reflect this change. So HP ...

Plustek's PL806 ADF scanner is part of the Smart Office series but is competitively priced enough to appeal to the home user as well. This dedicated document and photo scanner includes a 50-sheet ADF (automatic document ...

If you need to scan lots of documents day in, day out, you want a device that's not only up to the job but capable of doing all the hard work for you. Which is exactly ...

The latest CanoScan LiDE (LED Indirect Exposure) scanner is an upgrade of the 500F and is the first CIS (Contact Image Sensor) scanner to feature 4,800 x 9,600dpi optical resolution with 48-bit colour depth. This means ...

In an age when everything is digital, what do you do with all your old 35mm negatives, especially if the photos you originally printed of them have become damaged, lost or faded? Answer: you can either ...

When Fujitsu told us the ScanSnap S500 could scan 18 pages of A4 per minute, and convert them into PDF format at the push of a single button, we just had to try it for ourselves. ...