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Review on πŸ“ƒ Brother ADS-1700W Wireless Document Scanner: Fast, Easy-to-Use Scanning for Home, Home Office, and On-the-Go Professionals (White) by Andy Baker

Revainrating 1 out of 5

Didn't scan to my NAS and no cloud services menu - had to send it back.

Purchased ADS-1700w to replace ADS-1500w. The scanner is faster, but that's the only feature that seems to have improved. I can't get the ADS-1700w to scan to a network share on a WD PR4100 NAS. No matter what I tried, I updated firmware, various configurations and even contacted Brother Level 5 Support. Although they are working on it. Also, WD logged into my computer to make sure the NAS is properly configured. It scans normally on the PC. I had no problem scanning the ADS-1500w to my NAS, so I don't know why the ADS-1700w is missing. second problem. Brother has not enabled Cloud Web Services on the ads-1700w through the scanner menu. The device does not have a menu to use this function. Instead, they opted to activate services through the PC. Why? This device now needs to be paired with a PC to scan to Dropbox, while the ads-1500w was PC-less. For me this is a step backwards. Ads-1500w had direct scanning to multiple cloud services. It's frustrating to have to open the PC to do this. Apart from this, that the ADS-1700w is 7 pages per minute better than the ads-1500w, the ADS-1700w lacks built-in features in the cloud menu. I worked with my brother to fix the NAS issue but eventually gave up and sent it back. Finally. Why don't you include a USB 3.0 cable? And why didn't you include the blank software CD and receipt scanner like you did with the ADS-1500W? I understand why it's gone from now $269 to $199.99. It hardly comes close to the successor model. And I didn't get a free review like the others. Paid for mine. 0 cable at? And why didn't you include the blank software CD and receipt scanner like you did with the ADS-1500W? I understand why it's gone from now $269 to $199.99. It hardly comes close to the successor model. And I didn't get a free review like the others. Paid for mine. 0 cable at? And why didn't you include the blank software CD and receipt scanner like you did with the ADS-1500W? I understand why it's gone from now $269 to $199.99. It hardly comes close to the successor model. And I didn't get a free review like the others. Paid for mine.

Pros
  • COMPATIBLE WITH THE WAY YOU WORK β€” The ADS1700W supports multiple scan destinations: file (2), OCR (2), email (2), network, FTP, cloud services (7), mobile devices (3) and USB storage device. drive(4) to streamline the business process.
Cons
  • You can choose a newer model