#1:ScanSnap iX1600 Wireless or USB High-Speed Cloud Enabled Document, Photo & Receipt Scanner with Large Touchscreen and Auto Document Feeder for Mac or PC, 17 watts, Black
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upgraded from a 12yr old Epson standalone scanner
Needed to scan about 50 bankers boxes of documents, checks, receipts, photos, etc. Our old Epson scanner was starting to fade. You can spend a ton of money on these standalone scanners... and $400 is not exactly cheap either, but after using it.... certainly money well spent for the time it saves. It connects via wifi (my old Epson did not), and I was able to quickly set it up so that all new scans defaulted to a folder in our dropbox cloud drive. No need to separate like items and it will scan both sides.... as well as orient the file right side up. Just make sure there are no staples in there, and fill the tray (it says 50, but you can stuff a bit more in there). You can pay more for larger feeder trays, but its not really necessary... as you can set it up so that you can load up to 1,000 pages for a single scanned file. Also, it is super fast... and surprisingly portable, folding into a neat little protected rectangular box shape in case you have a need to transfer it between multiple locations. No brainer for any office looking to reduce paper.
Usefulness, reliability, functionality
This is one of the finest computer peripherals I own. Next to the printer and computer itself, it is my most used peripheral. This is an outstanding product. It functions as advertised and is very easy to use. This is a must have for my home office.
Amazing scanner
I bought a Fujitsu Scansnap S510 in 2007, and that wonderful scanner served me well for about 17 years, yes ladies and gentlemen !
Of course I need to be honest, there was a bit of a hiccup a few years after buying it, they stopped releasing new versions of the software and I suddenly couldn't use my scanner anymore when I upgraded my Windows (to version 8, 9, or 10, I don't remember). I found a solution though, I bought a piece of software that can use every scanner in the world, so I was able to continue using my Scansnap S510 for many years. Like I said, 17 years of loyal services in total ! And the scan quality was absolutely perfect for me, even nowadays.
To my big surprise it finally died now, in April 2024. There are little rubber things designed to pull the paper, they ended up being melted somehow. I guess rubber is not eternal after all. I imagine I could have attempted to replace these parts, but I did not want to bother and just bought the new iX1600.
New Scansnap, same experience. I am still absolutely delighted. The software improved a lot I would say, I prefer it over the 2007 version. The scanner is otherwise still the same great scanner it always was. It is fast, the quality of the scans is amazing, the software is easy and intuitive. It eats and sorts piles of papers quickly without causing trouble or jamming, it is an absolute pleasure to scan with this device. It has amazing extra bells and whistles, like wireless connection, usability from a mobile device, upload scans to the cloud etc. Not really necessary in my opinion, I scan on my PC and the folder is already synchronized with my Cloud solution, but the options are there and they work well.
ScanSnap iX1600 Scanner works on new Mac M1
This little beauty is an upgrade from a ScanSnap iX500 that I purchased 8 years ago. I wanted the newest version with all the whistles and bells. The one feature I love is the touch screen where I was able create profiles. This way we can scan our docs, photos, recipes and invoices into the correct folder with one touch. . You can set it up for WiFi or USB. We chose the white one. Looks great. Very light around 7 lbs. I downloaded the ScanSnap install program on our Mac M1 computer running Mac IOS Sonoma 14. The set up was quick easy and was flawless. I was literally scanning documents in 30 minutes. The whole family loves it. If you want a quick and easy scanner that takes very little space on you desk and is an absolute workhorse, this little baby is for you. I highly recommend it.
By far the best
I had an old version on this at work but it stopped working after 6+ years and daily use. I purchased this scanner because it was the newest version of the one I already loved. This scanner has been amazing, I even bought it for home. I have been able to load my pictures in it and scan them without having to stop after each one. The software has so many features. The color on my scanned in pictures look great, it’s not noisy and my favorite thing is it is wireless and saves to the file folder I choose without being hooked up to my laptop.
Incredible Scanner
If I could give this scanner 6 stars I would. I have experience with Fujitsu scanners. Our company has had two humble ScanSnap S1500s in service for over a decade, each having scanned 50,000+ documents on all original parts (and still going). We also experimented with a Fujitsu N7100 network scanner (I think we paid $1700 for that scanner new). I like this scanner better than all of them.
First of all, the old S1500s only worked with ScanSnap Manager and the older Fujitsu software. This one works with both the old software and their flagship ScanSnap Home software. I honestly thought I'd hate the new software and was planning to just use ScanSnap Manager again. I begrudgingly gave ScanSnap Home a chance and I must say, it's substantially better. First of all, the older software was made up of multiple parts that all had to work together. ScanSnap Home has one clean interface that acts as a document manager, a scanner config, and so on.
The flexibility is where this thing really shines. At first glance the touchscreen appears to be laid out how they think you'll want it. In reality you can customize every button, change it's icon, change it's action, etc You can have ScanSnap Home manage the docs or have it scan elsewhere and not even show the document in ScanSnap Home. I have my scanner setup here at home in a dual role. I use the default ScanSnap Home button to scan to my local NAS (as a directory on my computer, not direct [more on that later]) . I have other buttons that scan to various OneDrive locations that sync with SharePoint. For those documents it just scans direct, and I don't have it showing on my computer. Everything just works perfectly.
Setup was a breeze. I initially set it up with a USB cable then decided to put it on the Wifi just for fun. I figured I'd setup the mobile app but never got around to it. Then one day the USB cable was unplugged and I went to scan something, not even thinking about it, and it just worked. My computer found the scanner over the network without any additional configuration. Even over Wifi and uploading to either my NAS or OneDrive scanning is pretty much instant. I've scanned 50 page documents and after the last page went through it was fully OCR'd and available to open within about a second.
Here's the only downsides (which I didn't dock points for because this is not an expensive scanner by comparison). Although you can (with a firmware update) scan direct to a network share without the use of a computer the scanner doesn't perform any OCR on it's own. Our expensive N7100 could perform OCR on it's own but honestly it was slower. To really leverage this scanner's true capabilities, you should use it with a computer. The ScanSnap Home software is able to perform OCR on the incoming documents faster than anything I've ever used. On that note, you do have to check a box in the settings for the PDF files to actually have it save the PDF as searchable.
My suggestion for when you get it is to bypass the manual altogether and just dive in. Pretty much everything is self-explanatory. If you go to Settings / Scan Settings in ScanSnap Home you'll be pretty much good to go.
BUY IT! You won't be sorry
I cannot believe how good this scanner is. I through out my old Epson scanner after it would no longer communicate. But I don't miss it for a second.
The UI on this Scansnap IX1600 scanner is impressive. I realized I quit using the old Epson because it was so much trouble to scan and name a file, then find it later. This makes it so easy I look forward to it now.
This scanner allows you to create up to 30 unique profiles and it shows up on the display. I created several other profiles so I could just pick a profile on the display and scan the item into exactly the appropriate folder location set up for that type of document.
For instance, I had well over a thousand pictures of my son's sports from over the years and instead of storing in a closet, I created a profile named Sports and scanned them up to a Dropbox for the rest of the family to see. Initially, I was really concerned about how the pictures would scan, but I was quickly blown away. They come out better than the picture itself and even at the maximum resolution setting average less than .5 Mb each. I could place a handful of pictures (up to 50) at a time and this scanner never skipped a beat. So getting through over a thousand pictures was a breeze.
Then grab a handful of receipts of different sizes, pick the receipt profile and scan them in...simple. And shockingly to me I put a dozen or so receipts of many different sizes and shapes at the same time and they just went through easily. It would never be that simple on my old Epson.
One of the best features to me was/is the duplex function which allows the scanning of both sides of the paper at the same time. I had several boxes of documents that I needed to scan so I could shred all the paper afterwards thus reducing storage space. I created a profile and turned on the duplex function, then scanned thousands of documents. If a paper was printed on two sides, it would scan both sides at once and the speed of the scan was not impacted. And if there was nothing on the back of a page, it would not scan a blank page (that's a setting in the profile). Needless to say, I was able to easily scan numerous documents that I didn't want to throw away, but I didn't want to store in boxes either.
I was able to reduce about 15 boxes down to 3, keeping the most recent stuff and digitizing/archiving the rest. I hauled out at least ten full bins of confetti after shredding so many documents and pictures.
So just to sum up, with my old scanner I never wanted to scan anything because I knew how much work it would be and it would not scan pictures. This Scansnap IX1600 scanner is fun to use and very easy. When I get home with a handful of receipts I can select receipts profile throw all the receipts in and scan them, then shred.
I am really, really happy I chose this scanner, it's a dream to use!
Holy. Crap. Blinding speed, OCR, paper guides, the works.
Okay, so I’ve been using scanners since the beginning. Through all types and iterations of flatbeds, resolutions, auto-feeders, and not-so-great OCR readers. My last one was the ScanSnap s1500. I was soo impressed with it, that when it finally came time for a replacement, I went for the latest and greatest ScanSnap. This iX1600 is that scanner.
First, I should say that my old one is still working, but the rollers are getting gummy, and starting to break down after more than 10 years of daily service. Nothing else is wrong with it, which is a testament to how well these are built.
So, when I got this iX1600, I expected more of the same. I was NOT prepared for how much the company had improved it. The speed of the scans is ridiculous. Ree-diculous. I thought the s1500 was fast, but this is insane.
The software is leaps and bounds ahead of the s1500, and super configurable for techies like me. Pretty much anything at all can be changed.
The scanner can even be set to run completely wirelessly (except for power, of course), and you can just drop documents into it and have it can to the cloud using WiFi.
There’s a guide that comes with it for receipts of two different sizes, as well as regular paper. My old one would balk at heavier card stock, but this one powers through whatever I put in it, rotating/deskewing/processing the text into searchable words, and asks for more.
This is, without a doubt, the most amazing scanner I’ve ever used. The only single ‘ding’ I can give it, is that the cover closed more smoothly and slowly on my s1500.
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