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Canon CanoScan LiDE 35 Scanner | List Price: $119.99
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Platform: Mac OS X
Brand: Canon
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: 1 year warranty
Features: - 1,200 x 2,400 dpi resolution, 9,600 dpi interpolated; 48-bit color
- Z-lid design accommodates thicker originals
- ArcSoft PhotoStudio and ScanSoft OmniPage SE OCR software
- USB 2.0 interface, cable included
- 1-year warranty with telephone support
Great small scanner [Posted on 2005-08-13]
I bought my LIDE35 at Fry's Electronics for under $40. I needed a scanner in a hurry since my last Paperport had died. The LIDE35 installed and worked with no problems. The quality of my first scan was much better than any done with the Paperport.
I bought this unit because it was cheap and small. It is compact enough to travel with a laptop. USB power means you don't have the weight, mess, and need for an outlet that a wallwart powered scanner has. This is a big plus if you are traveling. Computer bags seem to grow in size and weight when you are running across Ohare airport tryin to catch a plane on the other side of the terminal. Wallwarts require power strips and make a mess in hotel rooms.
The LIDE technology looks good to me. I have had 4 previous scanners. They all died because the CCFT lamp went South after a year of moderate use. LEDs should last much longer. I found the color quality and balance of LIDE better than the CCFT scanners I had used. It is really nice to be rid of the lamp warmup warnings and delays.
Buttons on the front are more of a problem than a feature for me. I ususally operate scanners through the scanner control software, and edit with photoshop. Accidentally hitting a button wastes more time than using it for it's intended purpose ever saved. I would actually pay a few bucks more to have a scanner that did't have buttons.
Other things that would improve the LIDE35 are:
Make it even thinner and lighter.
A lighter thinner USB connection cable. Several aftermarket cables are more compact.
Over all I feel this was a bargain. It works better than any other scanner I've had and will probably last longer since there is no CFFT. Canon did a good job on the LIDE 35.
Reliable and Transportable [Posted on 2005-09-03]
While waiting for a good page scanner, I bought the LiDE 35 to use in scanning my receipts for expense reports and client documents. The cover of my scanner is dented and the TSA has mis-packed it a dozen times causing me to worry that it would be damaged but each time I've unlocked it, plugged it into my USB port and begun scanning. I've been very pleased with this scanner and on occasion when I scan photos find that it does a beautiful job there too. I'm impressed with this scanner.
Broke after one year [Posted on 2005-09-20]
This was a nice scanner until it died. It did a decent job scanning color print photos once I got the right settings. Unfortunately, it stopped working exactly one year after I purchased it. This was on a Sunday, no telephone tech support from Canon on Sundays. I called them the next day and spent almost an hour on the phone to confirm the scanner was dead. Then I was told that I was one day out of warranty, tough luck, thank you for purchasing Canon products. They would not budge at all. For this scanner, Canon gets 2 stars: 4 for actual performance, 3 for the driver software, and zero stars for durability and customer service. Hopefully Epson will be better.
Works quickly and efficiently [Posted on 2005-09-27]
This scanner is just what I needed as a professor. I need to prepare class presentations and this scanner works quickly and effectively to scan the diagrams I need to have scanned. It is handy to use because it does not have a separate power supply to haul around. In fact I have one of these scanners at home and at school.
Scan multiple photos at once - save hours [Posted on 2007-01-07]
This is the second scanner I owned and it is much superior to the one that came before. Not only is the scanner aesthetically pleasing and relatively unobtrusive, it is powered via USB, which makes it one of the few doodads I own that doesn't require access to a wall socket.
I hadn't had much use for the scanner until last week when my mom and I decided that the shoeboxes full of photos should be digitized and preserved.
I scanned over 500 pictures in one day in only a couple hours, with not a lot of work. The key is the remarkable technology that lets you put multiple photos on the plate at once, and it automatically detects the edges and crops the photos, saving them as it goes. I'd say out of the first 500 or so scans, there were maybe 4 mistakes (cutting heads off for instance) but that was easily remedied by rescanning at a different angle).
I use a combination of photoshop and picasa to organize the pictures. If I had to manually scan and crop every photo, I'd go mad. Thankfully this canon has made my job a lot easier.
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