Pentax DSmobile 600 Scanner

I have yet to use it in high volume but it ws easy to setup and use. The small size is great because I use it in the field.

I clip articles and recipes out of magazines and they hve piled up over the years. Since I am normally an organized person, I needed a way to save these but throw them out,too. This Pentax scanner has been the perfect answer. It is light weight and takes up little space, but really gets the job done. The program that comes with it allows you to set up separate files and then drag the scanned item over to the corresponding file in which to save it. Voila! End of mess!
Note: If you don't like the black of the unprinted part, just put a white blank sheet of paper through simultaneously behind the article being scanned.

This scanner is definitely a price performer. There may be some things you'd wish for but remember, this is selling for under $130 so there's gonna be some compromises. For that price point, I think this might be a best value.

The things I like about it:
- very small form factor makes it easy to take along
- runs solely from a USB port - no external power supply
- simplicity
- quality of scans is great for documents
- speed of scans is good (not screaming fast, but good)

The things you may not like about it:
- the included software does the basics but not much else.
if you have other software (PaperPort, etc) you will be happy
- the resolution is not for high-res photo scanning. It does
a good job, but at 600 dpi it is what it is
- no sheet feeder. you have to feed documents one at a time
- single sided scan. you have to reverse and refeed doublesided docs

If the sheet feeder and doublesided scanning are a must-have, don't get this scanner. Get out your wallet and shell out the $300 for a SnapScan. If you can live without those things, you'll get a smaller form factor and save a couple hundred bucks.

We received the product on time. Installed software and hooked up scanner, no joy. Scanner would not feed the paper into it at all. Called Amazon.com and they sent a replacement right away. Have not hooked up replacement yet.

I would not recommend buying this simply because you can get NO support from Pentax. Amazon. com has has been good, but Pentax support stinks.

The product description indicates that this scanner works with Linux. It doesn't at all and I can't find evidence that anyone is working on making it work. Don't buy it if you run Linux (any Linux). It even had some problems working in Windows XP.