My boss wants to encourage some folks to clean up their "paper storage" around the office, and asked me to find him a fast (at least 40+ ppm), sheet-fed color scanner that will scan to PDF files and not be required to attach to a network (in order to get around NMCI).

Basically, I'm thinking it's gonna have to have some sort of removable media (zip, usb drives, cd/dvd burner, etc.) available for you to transport the scans from the printer to the user's PC, since it can't be networked into NMCI. Presumably he'd want it to be under $5000 or so...

Anyone got anything like this in their office? Is it any good? What model/manufacturer is it?

I've been looking around the web for a couple hours trying to find one, but most of the ones I've found don't meet the "removable media" criteria.

Would a USB key work?

Would a USB key work?

That would work fine.... just so long as the scanner doesn't have to be attached to the network.

My office recently got one that is sheet fed and writes the files to a cd. It works real nice, but I think it writes them as tiff files, not pdf. I will have to check on the make and model and get back to you though.

It works real nice, but I think it writes them as tiff files, not pdf.

If you have the full version of Acrobat (not just the Reader version), I believe you can use that to convert the TIFF files to PDFs.

I asked our document expert about the scanner and she said it is a Canon CD-4050N and it can write the files to cd as either tiff or pdf.

Here is a link to the canon web page.

http://www.canon.com.my/office/dms/cd4050.htm

I wasn't able to find a reliable source for a price with a quick search. But I'm starting to think it will not cost less then $5000.

My office recently got one that is sheet fed and writes the files to a cd. It works real nice, but I think it writes them as tiff files, not pdf. I will have to check on the make and model and get back to you though.

Thanks... lemme know

Coldn't you just hook a scanner up to a legacy PC and do the work from there? It's a kludge, but it'll save you the effort of looking for a scanner with media read/write.

Coldn't you just hook a scanner up to a legacy PC and do the work from there? It's a kludge, but it'll save you the effort of looking for a scanner with media read/write.
The thing is... you never know when they're going to come and take away your legacy machine. :shrug:

Good Luck, they are really cracking down on all IT purchases, printers, scanners, even parallel printer cables need a waver.