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Some Good -- Some Bad Apr 23, 2008
I bought the Canon CanoScan LiDE 90 scanner because I restore family pictures. People often (and for good reason) don't like to hand over irreplaceable pictures on a promise you'll return them. So, I needed a scanner I could take to family reunions and to people's homes. This scanner seemed to fit the bill.
Pros:
* The portability aspects are as advertised. It's light and operates entirely (power and data) by way of a USB port.
* I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the scans. Without rigorous testing, to my eye simple scans compare favorably with my more expensive and highly rated Epson scanner.
* I installed the supporting software on both an XP desktop and on a Vista laptop without a hitch. I've read other reviews complaining of installation problems - I had none.
Cons:
* Material must be in direct contact with the platen (scanner glass). If it is lifted slightly form the glass focus/sharpness declines quickly. This means it is not possible to scan a picture while it is still in its frame. For more than one reason this is sometimes necessary in what I do.
* The literature that comes with is it almost non-existent. It lists this little plastic thingy in the list of what's in the box and never tells you what it's for. It turns out it is a stand that lets you position the scanner on its side (see pictures I posted with this review). Tech support didn't know whether this was for storage or use. I think it's a risky thing to use. It seems like a precarious position and if you accidentally bump it over it's probably bye-bye scanner.
* The Help/Online manual is poorly designed. It has no index, and it's designed as a "How To". It will tell you how to enable "Auto Tone" but give you no idea what it does.
* The ScanGear software is not intuitive. If you know little about scanning and image editing and expect to give the scanner complete control over the scanning process this may not matter. But, I set up my scanning in my own way and this software doesn't make that easy. It's version 1 of the software and has bugs. Some features keep flipping back on or off after every preview forcing you to reconfigure manually between every scan.
* I've owned about 7 scanners. I've never seen one that didn't let you select an area of a scanned picture and zoom-scan in to preview that area. This scanner/software won't do that. It will zoom a selected area but without rescanning it so it just makes it into a big fuzzy image.
In summary, I've been trying to make piece with this scanner for a week and the jury is still out on whether I'll keep it, but the odds are I will even if I can only use it occasionally.
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