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Rick Rizner
When it comes to repairing damaged photos or film, the Microtek ScanMaker i700 is the hands-down winner of all our currently tested scanners. But unfortunately, it's also one of the slowest models we've tested.
The i700's plodding speed put it dead last among all the scanners we've looked at lately. In most cases the i700 took nearly twice as long as the next-slowest model to complete a test. For example, the i700 took 130 seconds to scan a 2-by-2-inch color photo at 1200 dpi- -more than twice as slow as the next-slowest corporate scanner (Microtek's own ScanMaker i900) and more than four times pokier than the fastest corporate scanner (the CanoScan 9950F) in this test. A Microtek spokesperson acknowledged the i700's slow speed and said one reason is the time-consuming lamp warmup and calibration routine that the i700 performs prior to...