Average user rating from 5 users
9 out of 10 - Spectacular
LED TECHNOLOGY IS WORTH THE PRICE
Bought the unit for faster scan time. Set-up a breeze, no problems. It was money well spent, scans start immediately ...
Bought the unit for faster scan time. Set-up a breeze, no problems. It was money well spent, scans start immediately - no bulb warm-up time! Scan software, and on unit buttons very user friendly and intuitive, scan quality excellent. Going to white LED light source was worth the price paid. Canon should put this technology into it's multifunction products. The unit is a little large on the desktop.
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by fgryl (see profile) -
October 17, 2007
11 out of 11 users found this user opinion helpful.
9 out of 10 - Spectacular
Perfect out of the box scanning in less than 5 min.
This was by far the easiest scanner to setup and start using out of the box, but, yes, you have ...
This was by far the easiest scanner to setup and start using out of the box, but, yes, you have to TURN IT ON FIRST.
My old Epson Perfection 2400 is like a toy in comparison.
If you are looking for high quality, easy to use, LED bright white light, fast scans and ability to scan 12 negatives at a time, this is it. Magnificent, best scanner I have ever owned in this price range.
Deserves a 10 to compensate for guy who rated it a 6 after he forgot to TURN IT ON.
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by eteune (see profile) -
February 9, 2008
3 out of 3 users found this user opinion helpful.
6 out of 10 - Good
Good Quality Scanner for Home
Have had experience with commercial quality scanners at work, but couldn't handle the commercial-style prices for a home one, ...
Have had experience with commercial quality scanners at work, but couldn't handle the commercial-style prices for a home one, so I settled on The Canon. I have to say that the quality approaches that of the one at work, which brand new was about $2,000. The LED lights mean fast startup. It's also very quick in capture, even at 600 dpi. Makes a big file but as long as I don't let a lot of them pile up, system is unaffected. Still not as good as a digital photo, but still great. About $169 at Amazon.com back in April 2008.
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by newcomerm (see profile) -
May 16, 2008
1 out of 1 users found this user opinion helpful.
4 out of 10 - Mediocre
Nice hardware, software is TERRIBLE
Bought this scanner today. It installed fine under Vista. This scanner is replacing my old trusty HP 4C that is ...
Bought this scanner today. It installed fine under Vista. This scanner is replacing my old trusty HP 4C that is no longer supported under Vista (boo hiss!).
About 90% of my scanning is directly to PDF. When I tried this, the resulting scans were unusable, they were too light. Plus, the software would not remember the folder and file name that I wanted to use from the last scan, I had to Browse and re-enter it EVERY TIME. Huge pain. There is no way to adjust the brightness threshold using the automatic PDF buttons, it set the level automatically, which in my case was always too light, the scans were terrible and unusable. I had to use the general "Save" option, then drill into the settings EACH TIME and play with the threshold setting to get it right. Then deal with the saving location and name each time. This is not acceptable.
I have an HP G5040 at home that is MUCH better than this. This Canon is going back into the box and back to the store, I'll buy the same HP for my office. This is the first (and probably last) time I strayed from HP for peripherals, I learned my lesson.
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by klflesher (see profile) -
April 18, 2008
1 out of 1 users found this user opinion helpful.
6 out of 10 - Good
out-of-box frustration - my mistake
It's Xmas eve and I wanted to scan lots of photos for gifts, but it's day 2 of ...
It's Xmas eve and I wanted to scan lots of photos for gifts, but it's day 2 of trying to get my new CanoScan 8800F installed on XP Pro: The MP Navigator EX app will not start, saying: The scanner driver supported by this software is not installed. Install it and then retry. Googling the failure message gave this clue: Drivers are not installed until the scanner is recognized. I reviewed the instructions, and the only step I missed was #5: TURN THE POWER ON!
I did. It works. The WWW deserves to know.
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by GlennScheper (see profile) -
December 24, 2007
2 out of 5 users found this user opinion helpful.
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