Review on Fujitsu ScanSnap iX1500 Color Duplex Document Scanner with Touch Screen - White Model (2020 Release) for Mac and PC by Steven Thelin

I have had my ScanSnap 1300 for many years. It was great when it worked, but paper feeding was erratic, often jamming when the paper went sideways or a few sheets slipped. Mac software was becoming increasingly outdated, and it took a long time to find workarounds to keep it running. I finally made my decision and bought the ix1500. Wow! What an improvement! The paper feed is buttery smooth. The software has been completely updated. The ability to create your own scan profiles is amazing. For example, I created a custom photo profile that scans double-sided instead of single-sided, discards blank pages, uses "great" quality instead of "best," and minimizes compression. The first two options capture captions that may be on the back of the photo, but discard the back image if it is blank. "Great" quality is actually BETTER than "best" since it scans at 600 DPI, not 300 DPI. The Minimum Compression setting provides the best JPEG quality but is smaller than TIFF. Wireless setup was a breeze, and I just plug it into my Macbook for faster file transfers. So far I've only found a few minor problems: The mode for 600 dpi, not the 300 dpi "best" mode by trial and error - it's not documented (or at least not in an obvious place). As far as I can tell, the block is limited to 8-bit color depth even in TIFF format. Flatbed scanners work with a color depth of 16 bit or even higher for TIFF. The JPEG format is limited to 8 bits, and I didn't need the size of TIFF files, so that wasn't a problem. This can be a deciding factor for those who are serious about archiving and want to achieve the highest level of color fidelity. Cordless scanning doesn't work if you're doing well at 600dpi and have more than 5 pages in the hopper: the scanner is too fast to transfer data to your laptop and instead of pausing the scan it just fails. I've never had a problem with wireless scanning in "better" mode at 300dpi. Other reviews mention banding on scans, particularly thin blue lines. This means that a spot of dirt has settled on the glass of the scanner plates. Open the scanner and gently clean the class plates on both sides with a soft cloth and a 50% mixture of distilled water and isopropyl alcohol. Eyeglass cleaner works well too, but I wouldn't use a window cleaner like Windex which has a lot of other chemicals in it. Fujitsu sells a ScanSnap cleaner called the "F1" that claims to work well but is insanely expensive at $25 an ounce. l. They use the same liquid to clean the different rollers of the device. Especially when scanning dusty old photos, I had to clean the device quite often. The online documentation recommends cleaning the glass daily and the videos every 1,000 pages. This information should be added to the Quick Setup Guide.