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Fujitsu, the one of the market leaders in document imaging scanners, has just freshly introduced the latest addition to its award-winning ScanSnap product lineup – the next generation ScanSnap iX500 that features built-in Wi-Fi connectivity, providing the customers the ability to scan directly to their Android™ and iOS compatible devices – so freakin’ cool!.
To add more to this, the ScanSnap iX500, for PC and Mac users is enhanced with a quicker scanning speeds, an all new sophisticated feeding system, an intelligent and changeable Quick Menu, and lastly a functionality that allows users to easily scan to cloud-based services such as Evernote, Google Docs™, Dropbox, SugarSync and Salesforce.
What more does the product feature?
Before I start to give more of this scanner’s features, let me just say that this Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 Scanner has definitely an unequaled scanning performance! Be it for your PC or Mac environments, it can scan at up to 25 pages per minute or 50 images per minute in colour, grayscale, or black & white at an impressive 300 dpi resolution. You can even stack up to 50 pages into the automatic document feeder (ADF) then just press the “SCAN” button to scan both sides of each page in a single pass. It is that easy to operate!
Furnished with a revolutionary “GI” image processer 2 inside the scanner, the ScanSnap iX500 definitely engineered to empower today’s ever-increasing on-the-go lifestyle and mobile professional. Talking about ease of convenience, with this scanner, users can instantly scan and transmit PDF or JPEG files, such as contracts, receipts, bills, invoices and business cards, to their mobile devices without the use of a computer.
PROS
- Faster scanning performance (powerful, intelligent and fast)
- It has an advanced document feeding system with the “Separation Roller” technology to maximize feeding reliability across an even wider range of documents and scanning situations
- For additional convenience and flexibility, the ScanSnap Quick Menu is fully customizable and automatically appears after scanning providing a quick and easy way to send those scanned documents to several popular “Scan-To” applications.
- Users can scan documents directly to Evernote, Google Docs, Dropbox, SugarSync and Salesforce Chatter from their Mac or PC, giving them even more flexibility to store, share and access their paperwork.
- The iX500 offers the unique ability to link directly with your iPad®, iPhone® and Android™ devices via a WiFi connection for convenient viewing via the mobile app ScanSnap Connect Application and the smart device itself. ScanSnap Connect Application is also available as a free download from the official application distribution service of the device (e.g Google Play and Apple App Store).
CONS
- The optical sensors on the ix500 are CIS and not CCD like in the S1500. (Theoretically, CCD is better, especially for color reproduction. CIS is better for text and details, however, there isn’t much difference compared to my S1500 which basically uses 7-year old technology. This means that probably current CIS technology has caught up with the older CCD quality in the S1500. Of course this doesn’t mean that current CCD quality is not better).
- No Adobe Acrobat XI, just the same version X as before even though XI has been out for a while now
Summing up on this Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 Scanner Review, this scanner is best suitable for both beginners and experienced users alike with all the improvements that makes it even more user friendly that it was before.
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