It's long overdue but I'm now ready to go paperless! I've had enough (or more precisley my wife has had enough!) of the endless piles of paperwork at home.
Can anyone recommend a scanner in the price range of £300 to £500? Ideally it will have a feeder facility which I guess will save some time.
My HP officejet 5610 does a pretty good job of scanning multiple documents and if I recall it cost aroun £85 when it was new.
Just bought an HP officejet 4500g and it's nowhere near as good as the 5610.
Ok, might not be that fast but for a £300 to £500 budget you could have five of them on the go at the same time which would be a lot faster than any of the more expensive competition!
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I've often wondered about this paperless office and the time spent scanning things. How do scanners with ADF cope with folded documents. The majority of documents needing scanned will be folded after being sent through the post. Also receipts like the ones you get in supermarkets - an ADF would be useless with these.
Am I missing the point?
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I have also been thinking about this for a while, and after reading a recommendation on AW, I had a look at the Fujitsu FI-1630. It is very expensive (seems to have shot up since I looked at it a couple of weeks ago), so I am not going that route yet, unless I can persuade my clients that it is an additional service I can charge for.
There are a couple of short vid demos on this link, which show it's speed, and apparently can deal with till receipts
I currently use a Lexmark Platinum Pro 905, printer/ scanner which has duplex, and ADF, which is quite fast on ADF and gives excelent copies (also the cheapest inks I have found to date)
Like you bill, I've been toying with a Fujitsu ADF scanner, they are a bit more pricey, but can deal with most documents. I looked at outsourcing this and got some good quotes. Again, like Bill, I need to encourage my clients that it's something worth paying for. One service quoted £60 to scan up to 400 invoices/receipts and detail them on a spreadsheet.
