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Chris One thing to think of is what do you want to accomplish with having a scanner. As previously mentioned you would have to visit the device to scan a document. Then what format would you scan them into? Another thing that comes to mind is this a way of going "paperless" so that all can access files? There is so much to address, which is why I asked the purpose. Hope that this helps. -----Original Message----- From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Wolf, Chris Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 10:05 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Networked Document Scanning You've listed exactly the questions that are on my mind. There are a number of these available, from $350 to over $10,000, as well as a "scanner server" device for about $200 that claims to connect most USB scanners for network use. It's not easy to tell from the vendor information exactly how they work. I'm hoping someone on campus has tried some variation of this and can answer some of the questions or even demonstrate it for me. _____ From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Richard Wiggins Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 9:58 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Networked Document Scanning Chris, Can you give some insight into the mechanics of such a setup? Would this be for single-sheet or a few sheets, or for mass volume scanning? In any event, wouldn't the end use need to physically visit the device each time he or she uses it? Network-attached printers evolved a long time ago because it's easy to generate a print job, and pick it up asynchronously, perhaps hours later. I'm guessing that network-attached scanners aren't as obvious a setup because you inherently need to visit the device to start the job. You also need to save the output somewhere, so wouldn't a network-attached PC with a shared drive fill the bill? /rich On 3/7/06, Chris Wolf < [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > wrote: I'm looking into scanners that have an Ethernet connection to allow them to be shared across a department or workgroup. If anyone has this kind of setup I'd like to hear about what you're using, how well it works, etc. Thanks. --Chris ============================================== Chris Wolf Computer Service Manager Agricultural Economics [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Michigan State University 517 353-5017