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Hi Chris (and other interested parties, if any), One of our units here at the ol' Physical Plant decided that a networked attached scanner was a must have. So they bought one. The device is a Savin 3210 multi-function copier/network printer/network scanner. Installation and configuration requires that some system (a desktop OS system will work fine) be the scanner server, with Savin provided scanner server software installed on the designated box. Then individual users install a Savin provided scanner client on their systems, which communicates with the scanner server system. Ummm, this is all Windows stuff, by the way - I don't know whether Savin supports this functionality for other desktop OS environments, if that's an issue. The Savin device is configured with scanner mailboxes, one per network scanner user. It is further configured with information about how to contact the scanner server system (ip address, etc.). Then, when one wants to scan something he/she takes (or directs some gopher to take) material to scan to the scanner. On the Savin the user walks through a menuing system for the scan job, designating the desired user's scan mailbox. The Savin device scans the material presented, then sends it over the network to the scanner server. The end user, using the scan client, can then view the scanned documents available in his/her scanner mailbox, and open/print/etc selected scanned documents in his/her scan server mailbox. Is this better than sliced bread? I had/have my doubts, and I really don't think that the end users who just had to have this capability in fact use it all that much. And it is a little nasty to install and configure, and complicates one's system and network configuration. But it does work as advertised; I'll give it that much, if not much more. Regards, John Fishbeck Physical Plant Computer Systems and Networking ________________________________ 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]> 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] Michigan State University 517 353-5017