Plustek eScan A150

The eScan A150 is somewhat niche, but it's commendably easy to use

Plustek eScan A150 Review

The Plustek eScan A150 ($599) is one more entry in the growing list of network scanners meant for a micro office, but it's also a little different from most. Unlike its competition, it's designed to let you handle the entire scan process—from changing basic scan settings to choosing the destination for each scan—from its 7-inch, front-panel touch screen. The emphasis is on making scanning easy. More importantly, it succeeds well enough in that goal to be worth considering, as long as you don't mind a somewhat sluggish speed and a lack of instructions for getting started. An obvious point of comparison for the A150 ( at Amazon) is the Brother ImageCenter ADS-2500We ( at Amazon) that I recently reviewed. Both let you connect via Ethernet or Wi-Fi, both can scan over a Wi-Fi access point to mobile devices, and both can scan directly to a USB key, FTP site, selected cloud sites, and the PCs on your network. Where the two differ radically is in how they approach the process of scann...

The Plustek eScan A150 network scanner is hard to get started with, but easy to use, giving you complete control over each scan from its front-panel touch screen.

Duplexer (for two-sided scanning); Ethernet port; Scans directly to a network PC, a USB memory key, and assorted cloud sites; Scans through a Wi-Fi access point to mobile devices

Hard to start using; due to a lack of instructions