Kodak i2900 Scanner

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Product Feature

• Propel your productivity
• A robust rotary A4 desktop scanner
• Consistently high throughput speed

Product Description

Propel your productivity. The Kodak i2900 Scanner is a robust rotary A4 desktop scanner with an ingenious book-edge flatbed scanner built right in. It features a 250-sheet feeder/elevator and consistently high throughput speed, even when imaging double-sided and color documents at up to 300 dpi. Add in Intelligent Document Protection, as well as Kodak's Perfect Page technology and Smart Touch functionality, and you've got a fiercely powerful scanner in a remarkably compact package.

Kodak i2900 Scanner Review

I had pretty high expectations for the Kodak i2900 Scanner, and though I wasn't impressed with it at first (this review has been edited to reflect my thoughts after scanning several tens of thousands of pages), once I figured out the settings, I developed a more favorable impression of it.

HARDWARE
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Kodak has built what looks to be a pretty solid piece of equipment. I expect that it will hold up pretty well through a lot of scanning, and the fact that it can handle as many as 250 sheets at a time is pretty impressive. In my experience, it works exactly as advertised, and it is very easy to load paper.

One problem I have found is that the wheels sometimes begin squeaking and it can be quite annoying. The problem seems to occur because even when paper is not running through the device and it is pausing before feeding the next paper, everything continues spinning along. The worst offenders seem to be two white plastic rollers in the top of the back section of the device where the paper comes out at the top, and one at the bottom of the front loading area. I have tried cleaning the wheels in the front loading area, with some success in reducing the squeaking. The rollers in the back stopped their incessant squeaking when I shifted them around with my fingers, but they still occasionally scream out at me in protest.

Surprisingly, the scanner is missing some functionality you can find in other scanners. For example, it doesn't have the capability to detect double feeds like the Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 Scanner for PC and Mac (PA03656-B005). It doesn't handle paper misfeeds well unless they are quite nasty, in contrast to the ix500, which is pretty sensitive. These aren't major omissions, but on an otherwise high quality scanner, these kinds of details would be nice to have.

SOFTWARE
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It was time consuming to install the software, and quite difficult for me to get started. Once I did get it set up, it worked well enough, but it might take me weeks to figure out what all these options do. The most important thing that I realized is that you can go into the File > Page Setup part of the interface to adjust the resolution if you need higher resolution, grayscale, etc. I did not find the interface intuitive at all, and I think the software is not doing Kodak any favors here. It would have been nice if Kodak had included support for Mac users too. If you don't have a Windows computer, then this isn't the device for you.

Fujitsu ScanSnap ix500 v Kodak i2900
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These two scanners are not even supposed to be in the same league (in price or specs), but in day-to-day use, the ScanSnap comes out ahead in some ways. Despite being a fraction of the size and cost, the ScanSnap is much faster than the Kodak if you go above 300 dpi. I usually scan at 600 dpi black and white, and at these settings, I go roughly twice as fast with the ScanSnap. There is one caveat, though. The ScanSnap has more hiccups (misfeeds, multiple page feeds, paper jams, and problems grabbing onto pages). After 30,000+ pages with the Kodak, I think I may have only had 5 or 6 feed problems. Perhaps one of the reasons it doesn't detect double feeds is because the design of the device makes the problem much more uncommon.

There is one point where the Kodak blows the ScanSnap out of the water: capacity. The ScanSnap gets quite testy when you load in more than a few dozen pages at once, so you have to position yourself close to the device and keep feeding it. The Kodak churns through its pages slower, but at a steady pace without the need to constantly feed it. This can be a huge advantage when you get up to several thousand pages, and there have been several times when I give a scanning batch to the Kodak instead of the ScanSnap because I don't want to hassle with the feeding.

SUMMARY
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I think if you are a regular consumer who doesn't scan more than a couple hundred pages a day, then the Fujitsu ScanSnap is more than sufficient for your needs. If you are running a small business, and you, or your employees don't want to have to station yourself next to the scanner all day, then the Kodak is very appealing. The only stumbling block with Kodak is the software, but be patient with it, and you ought to be able to get it to do what you need.

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