The adapters cover mounted slides, medium format film and a dual 35mm film strip unit. You need to remove a cover and then use one of the three plastic adapters that form part of the kit. Some slight adjustment needs to be carried out when converting this scanner into its transparency mode but this is a straightforward task. Image quality was of a high standard with good colour tones. Switching to 600dpi mode increased the scan time to 24 seconds. The best I could manage with an actual scan was 10 seconds which I felt was reasonable. I was unable to match this figure apart from when I used preview mode. However it was nice to be able to set up other applications other than just those supplied as part of the package.Ĭanon has rated this scanner as being able to produce an A4 300dpi colour image in 7 seconds. One notable omission was the total lack of any email client even though both Outlook Express and Outlook were both present on the system. It was noticeable that this list did not contain all the possible applications currently available of the test system. When you first use any of these buttons, you are offered a choice of possible applications that you can link to and set up for any future action. The second group of buttons have been designated for providing a photocopying service with scanned images being sent direct to the printer scanning an image or filmstrip and attaching a scanned image to an email message. Other buttons in this group allow you to create specific settings and save the scanned images as PDF. You can scan in either colour or monochrome documents at 300dpi which will then be converted into PDF. The first group of buttons cover PDF type activity. Sitting alongside the on/off button are two groups of buttons allowing you to scan documents direct to specific task-related applications.

Once the scanner has been connected and recognised by the operating system then you can make use of the various buttons running across the top of the scanner. While some of these items may not be the latest or full featured, it is a reasonable collection covering most tasks.

Included among the bundled software are copies of Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 (Mac users are limited to version 4.0) LaserSoft Imaging SE ScanSoft OmniPage SE Presto! PageManager and ArcSoft Photo Studio. A total of five CDs are supplied covering both Windows and Mac platforms. Before connecting the scanner to the computer you will need to install the provided software.

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