Advantages: Fast, film scanning, high resolution Disadvantages: poor film scanning, no standby button
Intro
This scanner from Canon is a flatbed scanner, which can also scan film. Yes, that means you can scan your old negatives! Of course, if you don?t need to, don't let that put you off this scanner. This is one of Canon's mid-range scanners, higher models have better film scanning.
Installation of this scanner was a breeze. First, you have to unpack the scanner. Whilst this may seem like a minor point, it does actually take a little while because all the parts of the scanner is secured by many little red tape strips of tape, which you have to remove. Whilst this does take a little while, you can be sure your scanner was fully protected in transportation and is assuring. After that you just have to connect the USB and power cables and install the software, and you're ready to go.
Speed
This scanner is much faster ...
Advantages: Fabulous quality for scanned documents, both colour and B&W Disadvantages: Somewhat slow when scanning at highest resolutions
various ways. You also get MP Navigator EX which is Canon?s standard application for the CanoScan LiDE 100 range which works with Windows versions 2000, 7, Vista and XP amongst others and allows you to edit your scanned documents/images as well as a host of other features which I don?t feel the necessity to include here. You also have CanonScanGear included on the software CD which is a very basic utility for scanning your items if you don?t want all the additional features offered by the other software packages included.
I find my scanner very reliable - not once have I had to rescan something because it got an error halfway through and it's barely audible, i.e. pretty silent compared to my previous home scanner (which was a Mustek something or other).
TECHNICAL STUFF
* The CanoScan LiDE 100 is a flatbed scanner which uses ...
Advantages: Small, slim, light and practical Disadvantages: No slide copier
CanonCanoScan
The CanonCanoScan LIDE 60 is one of my most recent buys.
It has a very hard act to follow in my study - an HP Scanjet 6300 which I reviewed some time ago.
Buying
The HP decided to die on me, just when I needed it in connection with a funeral!
I needed to scan a photo for an order of service in full colour, and the HP was lifeless.
A quick trip to PCW was my only hope, and faced me with a dilemma. Would I go top of the range - my normal approach - or get by with something cheapish.
The latter was the option which led me to the Canon. At under £50 it seemed to offer all I really needed, and did the job perfectly once I got it home.
Appearances.
This is a wonderfully light, slim model - and sits on its edge on the desktop if need be.
26 cms by 38 cms by 4 cms deep is all ...
For the home PC user, the CanoScan N340P offers the benefits of Canon's world-leading technology and quality in an economic scanning package. This opens up the possibility of creating more professional documents, newsletters, personalized greeting cards, photo-records and web pages through the inclusion of digitized images. In addition to it's compact size the CanoScan N340P offers a comprehensive package of features and software that ensure you achieve quality images from both photo and pre-printed originals. These include 42-bit color depth and maximum 300 x 600 dpi resolution, Canon's unique LIDE technology for higher color fidelity and less image distortion and optical character recognition software for scanning text to your word processing software.
