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 ...

We reviewed the Canon CanoScan D1250 U2F a while ago, and there's little to say that wasn't already covered in that review. The scanner is not quite as sleek and stylish as some of the other ...

The USB 2.0 port offers a higher data transfer rate than the older USB 1.1 standard, so it makes sense to fit it to scanners to increase the scanning speed. That's what's been done with Canon's ...

Unlike the majority of scanner manufacturers' products, which are heading towards ever slimmer and sleeker designs, this USB-connected ScanMaker 5600 is more chunky than most scanners of its type. That's partly because it's not aimed at ...

In contrast to some of the more expensive scanners on the market, the Visioneer OneTouch 5800, which is a USB device, is aimed at the first-time scanner buyer. It's a consumer product with a price tag ...

Flatbed scanners have never been particularly stylish things, but Canon's certainly pushing things in the right direction. This new CanoScan N1240U is not a great deal larger than the A4 documents that it's designed to scan ...

There are two versions of the Epson Perfection 1650 flat bed A4 scanner; a standard version and a 'Photo' version. Both are equipped with a USB 1.1 interface, but the latter version we tested incorporates a ...

The OneTouch 5600 is a moderately-sized beast, about averagely proportioned for a scanner, with a contoured, grey, semi-transparent lid. It's pretty average in design aspects too with one notable innovation - the lack of a scanner ...

On first impression this is very much like the Hewlett Packard scanner. It's the same shape and pretty much exactly the same size, i.e. on the large-ish side. The only real aesthetic differences are that this ...

The 4300C is a fairly hefty scanner, although the overall design isn't unpleasant. It offers a choice of either USB or parallel interfaces. We tested it using the USB hook-up and the installation went very smoothly. ...

Epson claims perfection with its brand of scanners, at least with the name, and indeed the older 610 model has certainly impressed us in terms of "bang per buck" in the past. The 1240U is the ...

Out of all the scanners on review here, this is the most aesthetically appealing of the bunch. Its sleekly designed, silver on grey lines just scream "luxury" at you. If this were a car it would ...

This is an interesting device. No, really. Acer has managed to incorporate film scanning alongside traditional 1200dpi flatbed scanning by using a novel approach. Most manufacturers can supply an additional scanner unit that usually plugs into ...

Aesthetically, the 8100 OneTouch is more pleasing than most scanners, and more importantly it's pretty compact so it won't take up too much space on your desk. As with most scanners these days, it offers a ...

How often have you tried to scan a document on an A4 flatbed scanner, only to find it just doesn't quite fit? One possible solution to that problem is offered by Epson's extra large A3 scanner ...

Agfa's SnapScan Touch scanner combines some trendy design with high scan quality for a budget device. Although it has a cream body, it has a translucent white lid with a coloured insert, which can be changed ...