Buying an efficient and good quality scanner when you're on a tight budget is always a bit of a juggling act, depending upon whether your priority is speed or detail of reproduction. The CanoScan 4200F was ...

If you are in the market for a portable flatbed scanner to accompany you on business trips then Canon's ultra-thin CanoScan LiDE 35 should be at or near the top of your list. Weighing in at ...

A scanner is an A4-sized gadget which sits on your desk and breaks the spine of any book you try to scan pages from, right? It's permanently connected to your PC and is too bulky to ...

Is a reliance on brand names a bad thing? It's an open discussion, but a case for the defence would surely be Epson scanners. Here's a product area where the firm has barely put a foot ...

If the One Touch product name seems familiar to you but not associated with Xerox, then don't worry - your mind is not playing tricks on you. Visioneer has a trademark licensing agreement with Xerox to ...

So all flatbed scanners are grey monoliths with not a hint of style? One look at Canon's latest CanoScan, the 3200F, may change your mind. Not only does it look good, it has a 1,200 x ...

You wouldn't think it possible, but HP has found a gap in its blanket coverage of flatbed scanners. With over twenty products in the Scanjet range you may have thought this was impossible, but HP's done ...

The philosophy underpinning the Mustek range of BearPaw scanners has been on ease of use, and a degree of aesthetics. In the past, this has led to occasional criticisms that the scanner itself doesn't compare too ...

This is the only one of the six scanners to be designed as a landscape device; wider than it is deep. Depending on how and where you're going to use it, this layout could be convenient. ...

Umax offers a two-part solution for scanning; its scanner and the optional transparency adapter. The scanner can be bought on its own for around £100. The adapter sits like an ice-hockey puck on the glass of ...

This is a long, silver and grey scanner with a series of seven software-control buttons along its front edge. These offer functions such as scan-to-Web, OCR and e-mail, as well as one-touch scan. There's even a ...

Several unexpected features single this scanner out from the crowd - though not all of them are good. For a start the device is much longer than most A4 scanners, with an extended lip at the ...

This is a big, beefy scanner and although it costs more than some of its competitors in this group, it also produces above average results. It sits quite high off the desk and makes a fair ...

The cheapest of the six scanners in this group, the CanoScan 3000F is surprisingly well-equipped. Although little bigger than an A4 sheet, it uses a proper cold cathode lamp for illumination, as do all the scanners ...

If you are looking for speed rather than image quality, then look no further than the OneTouch 9000, because this thing is fast. Using a USB 2.0 interface, it's a lot faster than any USB1.1 scanner ...

The OneTouch 8920 from Visioneer is a quick, easy to use scanner, which comes with a good software bundle. However, this is another scanner that sacrifices quality for speed. One of the best points of the ...

The AstraSlim is the cheapest of the scanners in this group test and also the slowest, but in its favour it is remarkable thin - just 34mm - and the images it produces belie its price ...

The new Astra 4500 from Umax is a low cost but surprisingly fast 1,200 dpi scanner. Using a USB 1.1 interface to good effect at lower resolutions, it does, however, struggle at higher resolutions. Unfortunately this ...

Microtek's Scanmaker 4800 is a low cost scanner which offers features often found on more expensive models, but it suffers from slow performance and poor image quality when scanning from film or slides. Despite its low ...

Although the 3570C is a well priced scanner with some useful features, it's a bit of a curate's egg when it comes to image quality and performance. When used to capture opaque images from paper documents ...