Review : HP Scanjet N6310 scanner
HP - Scanjet N6310 price : £374 + VAT
Hewlett Packard: 0845 270 4142
HP - Scanjet N6310 features - Verdict
A versatile, high quality and economical flatbed document scanner with simple controls, programmable shortcuts and an excellent range of software.
All-in-one multifunction devices are so popular you’d be forgiven for thinking the humble standalone scanner has had its day, but that’s far from the truth. Many busy offices need dedicated printers and scanners, and HP’s Scanjet N6310 is firmly aimed at that segment of the market. It’s a well-featured 2,400x2,400dpi 48-bit device capable of handling anything from business cards up to A4 documents, including bound and stapled ones.
It’s a chunky beast, measuring 502x415x162mm and weighing an impressive 6.7kg, so it takes up a fair bit of space. The styling is business-like, finished in black and offwhite, with a USB interface.
The N6310 comes with a 50-sheet capacity automatic document feeder (ADF) and under the scanner cover there is a transparency adapter that can hold three 35mm negatives or two 35mm slides. The controls are on the front panel, which comprises a small LCD screen showing the menu, a three-way navigation button, three function buttons Power, Scan and Copy and separate Cancel and Setup buttons.
All the functions and much more are available on the very good and user-friendly HP Scanning software that comes bundled with the N6310.
It’s pretty quick start-up takes around seven seconds. Scanning a magazine cover at the default 200 dots per inch (dpi) took a mere 18 seconds and at 300dpi it took 52 seconds. Even at the default dpi the colour reproduction was accurate and detailed. Scans can be exported to different document types including letter to pdf, letter to searchable pdf, letter to email, picture to file or JPEG.
The ADF is much slower, but the results are still very good and there’s also a handy duplex feature.
The software includes Readiris Pro (optical character recognition software), Paperport and Presto Bizcard to organise scanned business cards.
While the IT industry has made a virtue of producing ever more efficient all-in-one printers to appeal particularly to those on a tight budget, there will still always be a need in busy offices for a dedicated scanner that can capture, store and distribute photos and documents as the need arises.
HP's latest Scanjet N6310 has been designed to be versatile and speedy and even to be left to its own devices while you go off and tackle that urgent business meeting. Measuring a broad 502 x 415 x 162mm and weighing 6.7kg, the N6310 is styled in no-nonsense black and off-white and comes with an automatic document feeder with 50-sheet capacity. This flatbed scanner can also handle bound or stapled documents, as well as business cards, photos and legal size documents.
Functioning at a top resolution of 2400 x 2400dpi, the N6310 connects to your PC via a standard USB 2.0 cable and has a built-in Transparent Materials Adapter under the cover that can accommodate two 35mm slides or three 35mm negative frames. In practice it's quite fiddly to remove and replace the negative strip holder as it's positioned close to the edge of the cover's downward curve.
The controls on the front are clear and simple: a preference settings tool with LCD to guide you through, buttons for scanning, copying and cancelling and an alarm LED. You can also set all the parameters via the excellent supplied HP Scanning software, where you can cue up and store commands according to priority (e.g. document to PDF, TIFF, e-mail or printer and negatives to JPG file), edit photos using crop, resize and rotate options and even choose colour-drop-out to improve OCR accuracy.
Start-up is pretty fast (around 6 seconds) and that swiftness of attitude is echoed when it comes to scanning individual photos, text documents and slides. The maximum claimed speed is 15ppm for documents and we averaged 12ppm comfortably (6ipm with A4 colour photos). We were especially impressed with the quality of the colour reproductions, which were vibrant, detailed and accurate.
It was a different story, at least in speed terms, when using the 50-sheet ADF: our 20-sheet text-with-diagrams document took a good 12 minutes, so it's probably a good idea to make a cup of coffee when you use this feature. Again, however, the high standard of reproduction made it worth the wait and you do have duplex capability.
Mac users will be delighted to hear that they have a separate installation disk which includes Readiris Pro OCR software and Presto! PageManager, while PC users have Readiris Pro plus PaperPort (to share scanned images) and Presto! BizCard to help organise all your business contacts.
Sourcs : pcw.co.uk
HP - Scanjet N6310 price : £374 + VAT
Hewlett Packard: 0845 270 4142
HP - Scanjet N6310 features - Verdict
A versatile, high quality and economical flatbed document scanner with simple controls, programmable shortcuts and an excellent range of software.
All-in-one multifunction devices are so popular you’d be forgiven for thinking the humble standalone scanner has had its day, but that’s far from the truth. Many busy offices need dedicated printers and scanners, and HP’s Scanjet N6310 is firmly aimed at that segment of the market. It’s a well-featured 2,400x2,400dpi 48-bit device capable of handling anything from business cards up to A4 documents, including bound and stapled ones.
It’s a chunky beast, measuring 502x415x162mm and weighing an impressive 6.7kg, so it takes up a fair bit of space. The styling is business-like, finished in black and offwhite, with a USB interface.
The N6310 comes with a 50-sheet capacity automatic document feeder (ADF) and under the scanner cover there is a transparency adapter that can hold three 35mm negatives or two 35mm slides. The controls are on the front panel, which comprises a small LCD screen showing the menu, a three-way navigation button, three function buttons Power, Scan and Copy and separate Cancel and Setup buttons.
All the functions and much more are available on the very good and user-friendly HP Scanning software that comes bundled with the N6310.
It’s pretty quick start-up takes around seven seconds. Scanning a magazine cover at the default 200 dots per inch (dpi) took a mere 18 seconds and at 300dpi it took 52 seconds. Even at the default dpi the colour reproduction was accurate and detailed. Scans can be exported to different document types including letter to pdf, letter to searchable pdf, letter to email, picture to file or JPEG.
The ADF is much slower, but the results are still very good and there’s also a handy duplex feature.
The software includes Readiris Pro (optical character recognition software), Paperport and Presto Bizcard to organise scanned business cards.
While the IT industry has made a virtue of producing ever more efficient all-in-one printers to appeal particularly to those on a tight budget, there will still always be a need in busy offices for a dedicated scanner that can capture, store and distribute photos and documents as the need arises.
HP's latest Scanjet N6310 has been designed to be versatile and speedy and even to be left to its own devices while you go off and tackle that urgent business meeting. Measuring a broad 502 x 415 x 162mm and weighing 6.7kg, the N6310 is styled in no-nonsense black and off-white and comes with an automatic document feeder with 50-sheet capacity. This flatbed scanner can also handle bound or stapled documents, as well as business cards, photos and legal size documents.
Functioning at a top resolution of 2400 x 2400dpi, the N6310 connects to your PC via a standard USB 2.0 cable and has a built-in Transparent Materials Adapter under the cover that can accommodate two 35mm slides or three 35mm negative frames. In practice it's quite fiddly to remove and replace the negative strip holder as it's positioned close to the edge of the cover's downward curve.
The controls on the front are clear and simple: a preference settings tool with LCD to guide you through, buttons for scanning, copying and cancelling and an alarm LED. You can also set all the parameters via the excellent supplied HP Scanning software, where you can cue up and store commands according to priority (e.g. document to PDF, TIFF, e-mail or printer and negatives to JPG file), edit photos using crop, resize and rotate options and even choose colour-drop-out to improve OCR accuracy.
Start-up is pretty fast (around 6 seconds) and that swiftness of attitude is echoed when it comes to scanning individual photos, text documents and slides. The maximum claimed speed is 15ppm for documents and we averaged 12ppm comfortably (6ipm with A4 colour photos). We were especially impressed with the quality of the colour reproductions, which were vibrant, detailed and accurate.
It was a different story, at least in speed terms, when using the 50-sheet ADF: our 20-sheet text-with-diagrams document took a good 12 minutes, so it's probably a good idea to make a cup of coffee when you use this feature. Again, however, the high standard of reproduction made it worth the wait and you do have duplex capability.
Mac users will be delighted to hear that they have a separate installation disk which includes Readiris Pro OCR software and Presto! PageManager, while PC users have Readiris Pro plus PaperPort (to share scanned images) and Presto! BizCard to help organise all your business contacts.
Sourcs : pcw.co.uk
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