Small Scanner
This small scanner from Pentax offers high quality scanning of documents and photos in an exceptionally small package. It saves space and is ideal both for use in the office or during travel.Pentax DSmobile 600 Scanner
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What is it? It is a portable small scanner for scanning a wide variety of documents including bills, receipts and photos. It is particularly simple to set up for Windows users, and straightforward to use. It takes up very little space, draws very little current and can be taken everywhere you go.
What are the benefits and uses of this personal color scanner?
- Designed for use both in the office and on the road visiting customer premises or trade shows
- Fast and trouble free scanning produces high quality scanned images
- Small size and light weight: It saves desk space and is easy to carry
- No need for a separate power cord or a power adapter: It draws current directly from the USB cable
- Scan and file bank and credit card statements, bills, receipts, tax returns, invoices, purchase orders, letters etc
- Scan documents quickly for faxing or emailing
- Scan important ID documents like driver's license or passport as backup copies
- Scan multiple pages into one PDF file
- Scan signed documents, forms, contracts in the privacy and security of your own computer, without borrowing other people's scanner and revealing private confidential information
- Scan receipts for expense reports to be emailed or faxed back to the head office while traveling
- Scan important articles (or recipes) out of magazines
- Scan photos: Photo sleeves are provided
- Use it to help create a paperless office
What are its main features?
- It is SMALL: Measuring 1.5" (height), 2.0" (depth), 11" (length) and weighing 12.2 ounces
- Scan from business card size to 8.5 x 14" paper size
- Optical resolution: 600 dots per inch (dpi)
- Scanning modes: 48-bit internally, outputs 24-bit true color; 8-bit gray scale; 1-bit bi-level B&W
- Scan speed: For 8.5 x 11" letter size @200 dpi, it is 3 pages/min (color) and 5 pages/min (gray scale or B&W)
- Sleeves provided for scanning photos
- Draws power directly from a PC using a detachable USB cable (6')
- One touch scanning: 1 touch will launch your choice of compatible scanning programs. Just make that program your default and 1 touch will launch it.
- Windows software included in package: DSmobile SCAN, PageManager Version 7, TWAIN driver
- DSmobile SCAN: Save scanned documents automatically as Adobe Acrobat format files
- PageManager Version 7: Save, view, edit and send scanned files in many formats
- TWAIN driver: It lets a user control scanner details and settings. DSmobile 600 is compatible with any software that supports the TWAIN standard.
- Compatible with Windows 98 SE, Windows ME, Windows 2000, and Windows XP
The Pentax DSmobile 600 Small Scanner has received a great number of favorable reviews
Note: The scanner works with Macs Mac OSX 10.3 and later but the included software only works on Windows. Mac users have to download the TWAIN driver from the Pentax web site. In addition they need to buy other TWAIN compliant software or use shareware to make the scanner work. For Mac users this is therefore not as straightforward. However, given the various qualities of the DSmobile 600 Scanner, this scanner is actually very popular among Mac users. Do read the user reviews to see how other Mac buyers get the scanner to work.