HP Scanjet 8270

Pros: lots of functions, good scan quality

Cons: slower than advertised, speed heavily dependent on your computer

The Bottom Line: The HP Scanjet 8270 is not a perfect scanner. Room for improvement is there, but it sure made my work a lot easier.

Review: A decision was made at my workplace to digitize all paperwork that was to be archived. In the computer age of today, the fastest way of doing so, is to get a good scanner and turn everything into a PDF document. So far so good. Since the amount of ...

Pros: Marketing lierature looks great. Maybe it would be acceptable if I were scanning photos.

Cons: Slow and image quality poor. Not suited for production scanning.

Review: I purchased this scanner to scan 2 sided documents for financial record keeping. What a mistake. Forget the speed listed in the marketing specs. If you use the ADF, expect 112-179 seconds per side at 600 DPI. Then, all the images appear very light. ...

Pros: If you're looking for a good time-waster, this is it.

Cons: Slow scans, heavy lid, and very noisy.

Review: For being a "step up" from the HP7490, I'd rather not upgrade. This scanner not only takes at least 10 minutes to start up, but it takes +2 minutes to scan a 5-page document in greyscale using the ADF. Then if you use HP's software, the file size is ...