From Handheld to All-In-One Scanners
As with many other computer technology products, scanner drivers quality and user-friendliness has improved greatly over the past few years.
Scanners started out as small devices that you held in your hands as you guided it over the image or document you wanted to scan.
The quality of the scanned image was not very good, because it was very hard to get even and precise movement while scanning.
They were also no colors scans everything was presented in black and white.
Today we are still able to get hand held scanners, but they are more versatile and easier to use.
We also have a larger selection of scanners to chose from that produce better quality scans.
Scanner manufactures such as Canon, Epson, Fujitsu, and HP are producing the "all-in-one " printer.
One machine is capable of faxing, scanning, printing, coping and making less separate devices to use, store and connect.
While all of these companies scanners are all-in-one machines they all posses different options.
Cannon has developed a scanner cartridge system.
This allows the user to convert the Cannon Bubble Jet printer into a color, sheet fed scanner, just by exchanging the regular print cartridge for the scanner cartridge.
Epson has a large variety of flat bed scanners, all varying in quality, price, and resolution abilities.
They also have scanners available specifically for photo scanning and high rise lid scanners for scanning books.
Fujitsu has designed their scanners to be used more by large and small businesses.
They have made a scanner call ScanSnap.
This is a mobile device that can be used while business professionals are traveling for scanning documents or receipts.
For medium sized businesses, they designed the Work Group scanner.
This allows the workers to scan in a shared fashion.
For the larger companies "Department Scanning" was designed with speed and quality and performance.
The popularity of digital cameras has drastically reduced the need for photo scanners because cameras are so easy to hook up and download our photos.
However, the need to scan documents is still high.
This saves many user a lot of time not having to rewrite articles or documents.
Scanners will definitely need to remain available for that reason.
Scanners started out as small devices that you held in your hands as you guided it over the image or document you wanted to scan.
The quality of the scanned image was not very good, because it was very hard to get even and precise movement while scanning.
They were also no colors scans everything was presented in black and white.
Today we are still able to get hand held scanners, but they are more versatile and easier to use.
We also have a larger selection of scanners to chose from that produce better quality scans.
Scanner manufactures such as Canon, Epson, Fujitsu, and HP are producing the "all-in-one " printer.
One machine is capable of faxing, scanning, printing, coping and making less separate devices to use, store and connect.
While all of these companies scanners are all-in-one machines they all posses different options.
Cannon has developed a scanner cartridge system.
This allows the user to convert the Cannon Bubble Jet printer into a color, sheet fed scanner, just by exchanging the regular print cartridge for the scanner cartridge.
Epson has a large variety of flat bed scanners, all varying in quality, price, and resolution abilities.
They also have scanners available specifically for photo scanning and high rise lid scanners for scanning books.
Fujitsu has designed their scanners to be used more by large and small businesses.
They have made a scanner call ScanSnap.
This is a mobile device that can be used while business professionals are traveling for scanning documents or receipts.
For medium sized businesses, they designed the Work Group scanner.
This allows the workers to scan in a shared fashion.
For the larger companies "Department Scanning" was designed with speed and quality and performance.
The popularity of digital cameras has drastically reduced the need for photo scanners because cameras are so easy to hook up and download our photos.
However, the need to scan documents is still high.
This saves many user a lot of time not having to rewrite articles or documents.
Scanners will definitely need to remain available for that reason.
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