Fujitsu Fujitsu fi-6670 Sheetfed Scanner Review

The fi-6670 Image Scanner from Fujitsu is a high-end business scanner ($3,000) and well worth the money for medium-sized businesses or departments within larger businesses. I am amazed at how easy it was to set up and start using a major piece of equipment like this.

Once you have hooked it up to your network, you really can just pop your documents on the feeder and push the button-- image quality is automatically adjusted, blank pages are stripped out, and slightly cockeyed documents are straightened out in the scan. The scanning speed is fast, and the scanner can take both sides of the page in one pass.

You can learn more about the fi-6670's features from Fujitsu's website (http://www.fujitsu.com/global/services/computing/peripheral/scanners/product/fi6670/feature.html) but the major benefits of this scanner for us were:

• Included Adobe Acrobat software
  
  
• Has imprinter, so you can print a date on each article after scanning it
  
  
• SCSI and USB ports for flexible connectivity
  
  
• "Talks" to Microsoft Office programs, meaning you can share scanned docs right away
  
  
• Can handle longer documents, like birth certificates or charts
  
  
• Can take up to 200 pages that don't all have to be the same size/shape
  
  

This scanner really has improved our productivity. Whenever we would scan something before, it would involve scanning, re-scanning, re-re-scanning after re-setting the image quality, converting to PDF, making a copy for MS Word, and so forth, but we can do all of that in pretty much one step now. I also noticed that the scanner is "smart" about which parts of the image to keep-- it cuts out blank pages, for example-- so the image files don't take up as much memory, but no info is lost.