InformationWeek SMB: How To Buy A Scanner For Your Business
Buying a scanner is easy, but making a decision about which scanner to buy is complicated. Make the most important decisions first, and then drill down to find the right product for your purpose.
“Depending on your environment, you may require a single purpose scanner that does only one function efficiently, and simply. Other situations call for more versatile devices that can be used for many purposes. If your scanning tasks are always the same, such as scanning hundreds of double-sided pages in each batch, chose a scanner that’s optimized to do that one task. However, if your scanning chores include everything from copying pages from books to making color copies, you’ll want a multi-function device (MFD) that can accommodate a wide range of activities.
Single purpose devices have been designed and optimized to deliver high quality, ease of use, and the fastest operation possible, while scanners designed to perform a multitude of tasks are designed to accommodate a wide array of uses and deliver the best possible quality for the maximum number of tasks.”