Printer Scanner

” Printer Scanner “

If you are looking for a portable printer scanner, one choice of action for you will be to search the internet and type in the keywords “printer scanner.” You will be directed towards various multi-functional printers as well as all-in-ones. Unfortunately, a few of them will be portable. Though there is a ton of printers that have the features of a printer and a scanner rolled into one, there are only a few of these printer scanners that come in a portable package. So far, most printer scanner models come in a desktop design and they are too bulky to be considered for carrying.

Canon is able to produce a series of printers that are also capable of scanning. However, they are not advertised as printer scanners. In fact, they are advertised as portable printers. If you are familiar with Canon’s Bubble Jet series, you will know that the BJC 50, BJC55, BJC80 and BJC85 have an optional IS-12 color image scanner cartridge that you can get at any Canon Store. This optional accessory converts each of these portable printers into a portable printer scanner. These converted sheet-fed scanners are able to scan at 360 dots per inch resolution. Unlike all-in-one printers where the scanned document is placed on a layer of glass, these printers scan documents like those that they are printing. Instead of shooting out ink, it scans the document line by line.

The resolution of 360dpi is not so ideal in this generation. Although it is expected since these scanners are not flatbed scanners. Scanners that use the ADF or what is commonly called Auto Document Feeder are capable of picking up only a few details compared to flatbed scanners. Let us take for example, Canon’s all-in-one printer, MX7600. It has both a flatbed scanner and an ADF scanner. The ADF resolution is at 600dpi while the flatbed resolution is at 4800 x 9600 dpi. Compared to the later scanner models, the resolution of these printer/scanners are still in its early stages.

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