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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.
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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]> 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
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Chris Wolf
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Michigan State University 517 353-5017