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Once the exclusive domain of high-end manufacturers, color document imaging has reached a wider market in recent years, thanks to pioneering midrange color scanners from Kodak, Rochester, NY. Now Fujitsu, San Jose, CA, ,has introduced a flatbed scanner that combines impressive bitonal performance and modest color speed at an affordable price of $10,995.
The fi-4750C is a duplex flatbed scanner with midrange bitonal ratings of 50 pages per minute (ppm)/90 images per minute (ipm) at 200 dpi (portrait). The scanner's color speed is fairly slow at 12 ppm/24 ipm at 150 dpi (portrait), making this a better choice for those who want color as an option rather than as the usual way of capturing documents. With its 100-sheet autodocument feeder (ADF), the scanner has an intended duty cycle of about 3,000 pages a day.
In our tests, the 4750C handily exceeded its bitonal ratings, delivering 56 ppm/93 ipm at 200 dpi. The scanner met its rated 12 ppm simplex color speed at 150 dpi, but delivered only 22 ipm in duplex mode (though this was probably due to our use of a 500 MHz workstation rather than the 800 MHz recommended by Fujitsu). Capturing in grayscale, the scanner ran at 19 ppm/38 ipm at 200 dpi.
The document feeder works smoothly up to...