Enjoy fast scans in vivid color with Acer Peripheral's AcerScan 620P PC flatbed scanner. Suitable for home, school or office use, the desktop 620P scans text pages, artwork or... more
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Advantages: Easy setup - Price - Quality. Disadvantages: Takes a while to reset after a heavy scan.
I got a really good deal on this scanner, $29.99 after $30 mail in rebate.
I have been using scanners as a software writer for years and have experienced the quirks of many. The home brand leaders (HP and Umax) both have their little oddities, so does the acer!
This scanner has a very simple setup procedure. You plug the cable into your printer socket and then your printer links from your scanner, Easy!
Load the software and bobs your uncle. Off ... ...if you use more than 200x200dpi resolution, especially if you scan a block of four at a time (block of four postcard sized at 300x300dpi took about 5 minutes).
When you have scanned an image it seems to take a while for the scanner to reset. Try and scan another image straight away and you will find that the software driver cannot find the scanner. The options are to retry or quit. I have found it best to quit, turn off the scanner for a few seconds, ...
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Advantages: Beautiful print quality scans-Extremely easy to use software. Quick copy utility. Extremely easy installation and setup of software. Disadvantages: Scanner is exceptionaly large,
When scanning 35mm photos I don't think any scanner can exceed the quality of the Acer. If you're scanning for web pictures then a 300dpi resolution is more than adaquate for a quality picture and the scan time is very short. If you want to scan at a higher resolution for prints this option is available, along with different scaling settings, and a multitude of other settings. All of which are easy to understand and work exceptionaly well. For pictures ... ...that it can be purchased on Ubid.com. Most bids on it don't exceed £40 and with shipping the total cost was £60. Then there's a £10 rebate, There is an OCR Utility with the unit, maybe someone else can shed some light on this as I don't use it. It was purchased mainly for scanning pictures and copying text (unchanged). Another software came with the scanner--Ulead's Photo Express Version 2.0. I have opened the scanner software from 3 differnt Imaging ...
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Power Consumption Operational ( Standby ): 25 Watt
Manufacturer's product description
Enjoy fast scans in vivid color with Acer Peripheral's AcerScan 620P PC flatbed scanner. Suitable for home, school or office use, the desktop 620P scans text pages, artwork or other documents up to 8.5x11.7 inches in size. With an easy-to-connect Enhanced Parallel Port and one-pass scan, you can see a full-page color preview within six seconds of scanning. Its color enhancement technology yields vivid 36-bit color. For text and grayscale graphics, the 620P produces sharp clear images in 12-bit grayscale and 1-bit halftone. The AcerScan 620P supports a 600x1200 dpi resolution, with an amazing 19200 dpi resolution interpolated. This scanner is PC compatible with a parallel interface. It includes TWAIN-compliant drivers for Windows 95, 98 and Windows NT.
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