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This is a great scanner, i have not got around to using the software included yet as i'm using the scanner via photoshop. it sets up within a minute of opening the box

it scans so so quickly, if your replacing and 5+ year old model then you'll be amazed by the difference. i managed to scan around 50 photos in an hour while saving them, putting them into folders and putting the photos back into albums.
The unit makes very little noise also, its also very small, so slender infact that i have it stored in a paper tray ready for use.

overall its perfect for any domestic/semi professional use with either the bundled or third party software.. i wouldn't say its not suitable for professional applications either.

Got one of these to replace my ever-faulty Canon Lide 90. While it may look absolutely identical to the Lide 90 (albeit costing about £10 more) this is just a better machine. Scan quality is excellent with natural colours and pretty impressive reolution (max 4800x4800dpi compared to the Lide90's 2400x4800dpi).
It's fairly quiet, powers off the USB port, has the nice 'z-lid' which concertina's up to allow thick books etc. to be scanned.

Now, speaking as a Mac user, the software is not great with it but it does OK for the most part. In any case, I scan directly into Photoshop which brings me to the next point. This is a TWAIN scanner (stands for Technology Without An Interesting Name - it does, really!) and these have, in the past, worked fine with Photoshop. However, the new version - Photoshop CS4 has dropped native support for TWAIN scanners. Now, at least on a Mac, there isn't really any other option. Not to worry though, Adobe offer the TWAIN plugin on the Photoshop install disc, you just have to go add it seperately. After that, it works beautifully.

Anyway, great scanner for very little money. Recommended!

The picture on Amazon is the wrong one, so don't be surprised that the scanner looks different to that pictured - check the canon website for a more accurate photograph. I bought this scanner in order to scan colour slides and negatives, as well as general purpose flatbed scanning. The quality of all the jobs I've done so far has been excellent - slides can easily stand being printed at photo quality on A3 size. It's incredibly easy to use and although some would say the slide scanning is slow, you can scan a batch whilst filing and labelling the other scanned pictures. In short I'm delighted with it.

I purchased this scanner so I could scan my traditional darkroom printed 10"x8" black & white photos which I process myself to a fine art standard.

These prints are on both resin coated and fibre-based paper in a variety of textures from matt, semi-matt and pearl surfaces from the Ilford Multigrade IV range.

After spending time working on each print in the darkroom, I wanted to get these images on to my computer for uploading to my website for client viewing so I invested in this scanner which I found created great scans and is so easy to use. Instant warm-up time, neat compact unit and very portable.

Using Canon's own software and scanning with the standard colour setting with automatic exposure mode created spot on images as per originals. The blacks are black and whites are very clean and accurute. No tweaking required. This very much surprised me, can't fault this basic conguration.

Usually scanning B&W prints creates colour casts but nope, very good and true to the original.

The only option I needed to enable is the descreen function if using non-glossy photo paper. The scan quality is outstanding scanning at 300 and 600 dpi, more than enough for the web.

I also tried scanning using the greyscale mode instead of colour and to be honest, I found you get maybe slightly better greyscale tones but for web output it not that noticeable. The standard 24-bit colour setting works really well.

I've also had a go with scanning colour material whether magazines or other colour photos and again the captured images are excellent. Just make sure you set you graphics card and monitor to use sRGB colour management (Choose display in Windows XP control panel, settings, advanced, colour management).

Would highly recommend this scanner if all you want to do is reflective scanning. It works for me and I'm glad I didn't spend extra money on a dual film/flatbed unit.

A good investment, I'm pleased.

The Cannon scanner is easy to set up and has a useful "quick scan" function which really is quick to use without going through a series of computer stages. You have to remember everything comes out upside-down if you place documents under the plate in the natural position but you soon get used to this. Excellent results all round on documents and photos. A.V.D.