Advantages: Extremely User Friendly
Disadvantages: The "BEEP" when you confirm a scan

...This Symbol SPT 1550 is the best scanner around in an area flooded with similar products.This device is extremely lightweight compared to its competitors and ease of use is second to none.The scanner itself allows you to read barcode labels with extreme ease some scanners on the market ensure you have to be right next to the barcode for it to register but with the Symbol SPT 1550 it allows you to scan from a distance and scan hard to reach barcodes.The product also has touch screen GUI making it extremely user friendly the further you venture into the menus and sub menus you can never get lost due to the aptly named home icon.In terms of memory for this device i once scanned 1200 items in an initial audit i was doing and it had no problems in terms of slowing up.... Read review

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Advantages: Lightweight, universal (sockets) easy to use
Disadvantages: quite big, problems with light (described below)

...This scanner is a great little piece of radio equipment. In the box you get: The Scanner An Aerial (which is detachable and quite poor quality) A Headphone which plugs into the scanners earphone socket A charger which plugs into the scanner to either run it directly off the mains power or to charge your batteries. 4 Batteries (rechargeable) A car charger (to fit into the cigarette lighter socket) And an instruction manual Some of this scanners functions include: 1000 Channel memory (very fast scanning) 10 Banks for storing Searching ( to search through the radio spectrum and pick up on any activity) Memory Pass Search pass and many many more (google "yupiteru mvt 7100 spec" and find more detailed info. The scanner covers a range between 350kHz - 1650MHz. Now that range is completely... Read review

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Advantages: Very Good Quality, Excellent SilverFast Software
Disadvantages: Abit Large, Dust Removal Software Not Good

...The HP ScanJet 8300 is a Professional Image Scanner from HP's Scan jet series. This is one of the top end Scanners HP manufacture and is ideal for the business domain. There is also an 8300gp model of this scanner which is a Graphic Arts scanner and has a monitor color-meter calibrator as a added feature ideal for graphic designers. Now about the HP ScanJet 8300, the scanner has an OR (Optical Resolution) of 4800x4800dpi and will scan high dynamic range in 48bit colour. This is fine for transparency and negative scanning. The scanner has a max reflection area of around A4 size. HP includes film holders which will hold 3 strips, 6 frames of a 35mm film. The holders can be placed in the base of the scanner for storage. The ScanJet 8300 is supplied with HP's own photosmart software. I wasn't impressed with the scan pro scanning... Read review

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Advantages: Very good general coverage
Disadvantages: No computer control

...This scanner is a great scanner. It covers all bands, HF, USB, LSB AM, VHF and UHF. The scanner comes complete with a mains adaptor/charger as one unit, ear piece, Rechargable batteries, strap, belt clip and car adaptor (plug in to the car lighter socket). Also a BNC Aerial plus a dodgy manual. The manual does cover everything but it is a japanese to english translation so does require patience. Once the batteries are loaded and the aerial connected follow the manual for basic operating procedures. It has an impressive memory capacity 1000 channels grouped into 10 banks of 100 channels, these can be scanned as seperate banks or as a continuous scan. It also has one priority channel which can be switched on or off, when on it is scanned every few seconds. The reception is great with the standard whip aerial,I have... Read review

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Advantages: good quality scanning
Disadvantages: software is rubbish, can take for ever to scan an image

...I bought myself this to scan various things (old photos, documents and some sheet music) and this does the job pretty well. It was a bit on the expensive side but I needed something that would give me good quality and I could trust that it would work well so I went for HP as they are well known for good quality products. TECHNICAL INFORMATION It can scan at up to 4,800 dpi (dots per inch) It has 96 bit colour It has a 216x311mm scanning screen Connects by USB It is 303x508x108mm (wxdxh) It weighs 5.2 kg So it can give you very good quality, it gets a lot of colours, it's got a decent sized scanning screen, it's pretty big and it's not a light weight utility. There is nothing in there to put me off though because I still bought it. A LITTLE BIT ABOUT IT Scanners have been dying out because they are getting beaten... Read review

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