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We are using a Canon IR3170, which is serving as a copier/scanner/network printer. We've had it about 6 months. Everyone loves the network printing function. They think it's great to be able to print 200 copies of a document without having to walk to the machine and make copies. We have office staff who kindly stick jobs on people's mailboxes, which spares them the arduous walk to the copy room. The network scanning, however, is not so well-loved, because of the running around required, as Kim describes. My solution to this problem has been to put a tiny PC on the wall in the copy room. Users can log on to the copy room computer, and stand right there to perform their scan job. The copy room computer is a member of our windows domain, so they can then save their file to a shared folder on the Copy Room PC or any of their network shares, or they can manage the file in other ways. (FTP it to AFS, e-mail it wherever they want using webmail, stick it on a USB key.) This has really helped make everyone happy with the scanner. We, too, can only scan in black and white, though. This suits our needs fairly well, though. I think Canon makes one that can scan in color, but you'd have to ask your sales rep. Best of luck; Wendy -----Original Message----- From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kim Geiger ([log in to unmask]) Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 10:22 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Networked Document Scanning >>> On 3/7/2006 at 10:11:14 am, in message 0162A.CNM34675169, Jesse Howard<[log in to unmask]> wrote: > We recently leased a Canon iR3220 that can scan to a network share. > You have to be running NetBT in order to use this feature in a Windows > domain, though. > > Jesse Howard > _______________________ We also have a couple of Canon printer/fax/copier/scanners. They work fine, though the scanner doesn't get much use, because a) you have to walk to the scanner, put the document(s) in the feeder, and then go back to your computer to acquire the image (during which time the machine is locked against other functions); and b) it only scans in black and white. -- Kim Geiger Information Technologist Broadcasting Services Michigan State University 517-432-3120 x 429