Only 1.3 inches thick (Canon Canoscan N650U)

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Product:	Canon Canoscan N650U
Date:	19/05/01 (64 review reads)
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Advantages: ultra thin

Disadvantages: lid is a little flimsy

This is one of the thinnest scanners I have ever used, it is only 1.3 inches thick by 10.1 inches wide and 14.7 inches in length. It weighs 3.1 pounds and comes with a five-foot cable. The five-foot USB cable is for the computer connection and power. (No AC plug in.)

It is a Flatbed, color and monochrome scanner made for the PC and the Macintosh computers. It is a 600 by 1,200 dpi (Dots Per Inch) scanner that can with software go up to 9600 x 9600 dpi. It is a 42-bit (over four trillion colors) color and 14-bit grayscale scanner.

It is easy to use, just plug the USB cable into a USB port and Windows will recognize it and then just follow the on screen instructions for your software installation.

Requirements
Macintosh - Mac OS 8.5 or later, Book, iMac,

You will need a G3 or G4 processor.

PC - Windows 98, Windows 2000 and ME

You will need a Pentium 133MHz processor or higher. (The Windows ME needs a Pentium 150MHz processor or higher)

PC & Macintosh
32MB RAM with 64MB recommended

A USB port and a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM for software installation.

A color monitor and display card with at least 800 x 600 resolution.

Software
They include ArcSoft PhotoStudio an easy to use photo editing application, this is a very nice program that even has Red-Eye Removal for maximum enhancements. There is also ArcSoft PhotoBase.

Then there is ScanGear Toolbox a program that works with the scanner's start button to scan images, copy, attach images to e-mail messages or faxes.

You also get CanoScan Toolbox to performing repetitive scanner functions with one touch of the start button with image edits and organizing an album of scanned images.

Overall
Here is a nice slim scanner for under $99 that is USB ready and easy to use.

With this scanner you can also scan thicker objects like a book with their Z-Lid Expansion Top that lifts up
one inch vertically to accommodate thicker things to scan. The lid is light in weight and seems a little flimsy.

There is a button that you can program on the front of it to make it a one touch scanner.

The pictures scanned come out crystal clear and take from about 30 seconds to over one minute to scan, depending on you settings. Scanning in Grayscale also left them crystal clear. I scanned a text document and it looked pretty good with out using the OCR program to correct it, not perfect, but pretty good.

Cannon includes enough software for everything you need to enhance you photos to making greeting cards.

I really like this scanner, I highly recommend the CanoScan 650U

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