Canon CanoScan LiDE 30 price and reviews

TECH SUPPORT WAS AVAILABLE 8PM SATURDAY WHEN NEEDED, ONE WIRE CONNECTION, NO SEPARATE POWER CORD, WORKS AND LOOKS GREAT

This "little" machine is amazing! It's size may fool you into thinking that it's not a power machine but, wow, does it prove you wrong. After having tested a couple of scanners, HP and a Lexmark (all in one), I can finally say I found the right scanner for my needs. Unfortunately, I was not impressed with the Lexmark's quality of scan as well as the HP's. All my previous scanning had been done in an HP (older model) so I was very disappointed when the "newer" models were producing lesser quality scans. Bottom line, I'm glad I took my time to test these machines. This model basically had it all (the stand, however, to place it sideways makes no sence). Either way, good price, great appearance, and excellent quality scans (1200x2400 - 48 bits). Plus, one cable (USB) for both connection and power. SMART Canon! ... and it's height is no more than an inch. As for support, the Canon website has always been more than enough for me. Give it a try. For the price, you can't go wrong......

Coming off a Umax Vista S-6e that I have had for 4 years. This was a great scanner that I owned from my tech support days at Umax (YUCK, 40 calls a day MINIMUM or youre FIRED). BUT, I Finally inastalled some DSL software and ever since, my computer crashed on a scanner test, so blah blah, blah, I went out and got this Canon Lide30. The Umax was so much bigger and uglier, but granted it was an old generation scanner. This Canon takes up roughly 1/2 the deskspace but also 1 tenth the height. Much more visually pleasing. Set this up within 10 minutes (that's all it should take when you follow the directions). By contrast it took 20 minutes to delete all the Umax driver crap that was on my system. I am running 98SE with a 1.3 P4, 256 RAM. Arent you impressed? So anyway, the scan quality on this thing kicks butt, as long as you don't expect the quality of a high-end machine or a drum scanner (photo pros look elsewhere). But I tell ya, I do alot of manipulation of photographs (putting Saddam's head on Britney's body, and so on). Photoshop saw the plug in instantly. Great quality even at web settings. The color looked a bit washed out on 75 dpi, but higher up and you're OK. I also made a few photocopies directly to printer (HP DJ 972C) with the button on front, and it was great. Now I dont have to take stuff to work to copy. And finally, the self-power is a great feature, something many other companies should investigate. Buy this for 80 bucks, follow the directions and you will be impressed. As a sidebar, all the complainers are just like they always have been-expecting prepress quality at under 100 dollars. Go price some drum scanners, bottom feeders, all of them!

Just picked up one of these at Staples for $60 after rebate. The cabinet color scheme is a perfect compliment for my Sony VAIO desktop system (except for the included, pedestrian looking USB cable). Scans aren't the fastest, but considering this is powered through the USB cable (read: NO POWER SUPPLY!), coupled with the form factor, and we have a winner here. It even comes with a desk stand for use in a vertical position! Driver was a piece of cake to set up (downloaded latest driver from Canon's USA website, then installed only the Canon-specific software from CD-ROM as I use Photoshop) on Windows XP Home. I also have a Canon S300 inkjet printer and they work well together. Bye bye, HP! There's a new imaging champ in town...