Canon CanoScan LiDE 60 Flatbed Scanner

Pros: Decent quality scans. Almost portable

Cons: Poor power provided therefore scanner can fail needing to be re-started

Review: This scanner is inexpensive, lightweight and easy to use. This image quality is fine. However, scanning at anything higher than around 200dpi, the scanner is slow or even fails and looses its connection to the computer and needs to be re-started /...

Pros: Low price but seems well made. It's nice not needing a separate power supply.

Cons: The scanning software is a bit lame. I like using another better.

Review: I bought this scanner about 6 months ago for around $70 with a $10 rebate. I use on average about 20 times a week. I've started an on-going project of scanning in old photos from our photo albums so that they will be forever protected. I've scanned...

Pros: USB Powered, good quality scans

Cons: OS X users are used to much nicer software than this

Review: I bought this to replace an aging agfa scanner. It is quiet, small, has the four buttons on the front which are handy and the main reason I bought it was because it is powered by the USB connection! It also works well with my Mac running OS 10.4.2...

Pros: The box has nice artwork and a cute handle.

Cons: Slow, poor quality scanning, low-utility software, software freezes consistently, invalid vertical position claim.

The Bottom Line: The LiDe 500 may be fine. This one has terribly weak software and doesn't scan vertically as claimed.

Review: I've been working with computers for around thirty years and have not seen any gear as spectacularly underwhelming as the Canon Canoscan LiDE 60. I'd read good reviews on the LiDE 500, but couldn't find it in stock at CompUSA, BestBuy, Office Depot,...

Pros: Small, nice design, very good scan quality, fast, low price, no power cord

Cons: Scan software not easy to use. Limited to letter / A4 scans

The Bottom Line: Very good for general use at reasonable price. I like it.

Review: The context

I bought this scanner as a replacement for my HP 4470 scanner whose lamp went out after only three years of not really intensive duty. After spending one hour or so on HP web site and phone support service, I figured out...

Pros: Fast, produces searchable PDF

Cons: A bit noisy during low res scans when the head moves faster

Review: I've had this scanner a couple of weeks now and the main use is to convert all my bills, letters and suchlike to "paperless" format.

I like the way that it will scan directly to a "searchable" PDF file, and the "text enhanced" scan setting...

Pros: Easy to use. Good performance, especially for the price.

Cons: Lid falls shut too easily.

The Bottom Line: It's worked easily and reliably for us for two years.

Review: The Good

First and foremost, the CanoScan has been very easy for me to use. I'm neither a technophobe nor a computer whiz. But I definitely don't want to have to muck about trying to make something play nice with my computer...

Pros: Looks good, easy to get up and running, great results, space saving.

Cons: None as yet, touch wood.

The Bottom Line: A sleek piece of computer harware that not only looks good but by jolly it is good!

Review: I recently purchased a canon scanner for my husband's birthday. When trying to decide which model and make to buy I took into consideration the price, size, style and, more than anything, the specifications. We did also want something which was easy...

Pros: High quality, inexpensive, easy to use

Cons: Colors other than gray would be nice :) Otherwise, none!

Review: When our old scanner went out on us, I began to look around for a replacement and this was recommended to me by a friend. I purchased it and love it.

It scans full page documents quickly. It scans photos with great detail. It's slim and...

Pros: Lightweight, compact, high quality images, no extra power adapter.

Cons: None.

The Bottom Line: The bottom line made copies of its buttocks and posted them in the break room.

Review: The CanoScan LiDE 60 scanner is a nice replacement for an old Mustek 600E III that I hadn t used since October of 2000 when I upgraded to Windows XP. The old Mustek was a parallel port scanner and there was no driver for Windows XP that would work...