Review on 📄 Efficient Color Document Scanning with Xerox DocuMate 4700 Flatbed Scanner by Juan Lockwood

We use large ESPON scanners at my school and the quality is amazing so I had very high hopes for them. But they cost between $3,000 and $4,000, so I was skeptical when I saw this one for $584. After trying it I was very impressed. Advantages-cheap-durable-great. The total scan area is 12" x 18", but the edges are cropped and blurred when scanned, so the actual scan area is 11" x 17" - 24-bit color scans, grayscale, and a weird mode called black and white. which severely distorts everything you scan, which is why I never use it. - scans at 200dpi 300dpi 600dpi and if you register you get access to 1200dpi (although I didn't notice any difference between 1200 and 600dpi) - you can do a quick preview and then use the selection tool to select a smaller area to Select scan Instead of scanning the whole thing - you can edit the brightness in preview mode. I find the standard brightness optimal. - You can turn scanned documents into searchable PDF files - You can remove the top to scan even larger documents and then stitch them together in another program like PhotoshopCons - If you click the 'Preview' button, it will instantly changed to a "Cancel" button. Sometimes my mouse double clicks so it clicks preview and then clicks again to cancel the preview. This doesn't always happen, but when it does it can be very annoying - you can only make one selection in the preview. ESPON scanners allow you to make multiple preview selections and create multiple images in a single scan. For example when I scan photos I can lay them out on the scanning table and then make a selection for each photo and get about 8 photos in one scan. With this scanner I have to do them one by one. I could save a lot of time. The software was supplied on a CD. My computer doesn't have a disc tray, so I had to go to someone else's computer, move the software to the hard drive, and then transfer it to my computer. It installed fine, but the CDs appear to be out of date. The quality you get with ESPON is even better. Attached are photos showing the difference. You can see the document scan is smudged and blurry even though both images were scanned at 600 dpi. But since dokumat is 84% cheaper than espon, such a small improvement isn't worth the fork in my opinion. If you are a professional artist then espon might be for you. In ESPON you get more post-processing features, e.g. B. Hue Saturation Contrast, while this program only has brightness. The colors of this scanner are excellent. I have fortunately scanned over 3,300 family photos with it. And of course, it's great for scanning regular documents.