Kodak ScanMate i1150 Review
The Kodak ScanMate i1150 ($495) is aimed at scenarios like the front desk in a medical office that needs to scan documents from incoming patients into special-purpose software throughout the day. Indeed, there are some touches that will be particularly welcome for those kinds of vertical markets. A small, raised ledge on the front of the scanner, for example, will let you prop up an ID card for easy readability. In most ways, however, the i1150 ($749.99 at Amazon) is simply a highly capable desktop scanner that can fit well in most offices.
One key difference between the i1150 and scanners aimed at more general office use, like the Editors' Choice Canon imageFormula DR-C125 , is that the i1150 doesn't come with any application programs. Looking strictly at hardware, the Kodak and Canon models deliver almost the same speed and capability. But with the Canon DR-C125 you also get programs for document management, optical character recognition (OCR), and business-card management, plu...
The Kodak ScanMate i1150 is an impressively capable scanner, with extras ranging from boosted scan speed for the first 10 pages, to showing profile names on its LCD for one-button scanning.
Duplexer; 50-sheet automatic document feeder; LCD shows profile names for one-button scanning; Fast
Limited to only nine predefined scan definitions; Comes without application programs