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WHAT'S HOT: With its automatic photo feeder (APF), a transparency adapter, and a bevy of push buttons, the HP Scanjet 5500c is one of the most versatile, easy-to-use scanners we've seen lately. The unique APF, which is built into the scanner lid itself, works much like an automatic document feeder except that it handles stacks of photo prints (as big as 4 by 6 inches) instead of paper sheets. Place a pile of up to 24 prints in the APF's feeder tray, push the Scan button on the front panel, and the Scanjet 5500c will automatically scan each print, generating a separate file for each one. In informal tests using the APF, it took roughly 4.5 minutes to process a pile of 15 3-by-5-inch photos, or approximately 18 seconds per print, at 200 dpi (the APF's default setting). We found that the APF operated very smoothly and didn't cause any damage to our prints as they passed through its transport mechanism.
Tested using its USB 2.0 interface (like all USB 2.0 devices, it's backward-compatible with USB 1.1 ports), the 5500c earned the highest overall performance score among all the small-office...