Chris,
The Maintenance department at the Physical Plant recently
leased a Cannon Image Runner 4570. This is a copier/printer/scanner/
fax system. The thing I like about the scan feature on this copier is it
will let you send a scan from the copier as an attachment to a E-mail
address. I've scanned a printed copy of your E-mail and sent it to
myself. I attached it here so you can see what it looks like coming from
the copier. We have it configured to put the scanned image into a PDF
formatted file but that format is configurable. I also understand that
this device can dump it's scans to an network share but the E-mail method works
so well we haven't even looked at implementing it.
The scan feature, I have seen, on copiers up to
this point required coordination between starting up software on the workstation
and starting up scanning on the device which has been too clumsy for most people
to use. I've also seen the copiers
where you need to have a workstation dedicated to being a scan server.
Neither of these are required for the Cannon Image Runner 4570. The only
thing you need to set up to use the E-mail scan function is to configure the
copier to point to an SMTP server.
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David Vietti
Systems Administration
Manager
Michigan State University
Physical Plant Division
Room 1
Physical Plant
East Lansing, MI 48824
(517)432-0240
Office
(517)353-5001
fax
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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
Computer Service Manager
Agricultural
Economics
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University 517 353-5017