Canon CanoScan LiDE 60

Reviewed by: jdandrews

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: Small and light. No power supply needed. Fast for single page black and white or gray scale scans.

Weaknesses: Not a great scanner for printing pages in color. Really slow for multi-page, color PDF documents.

Overall Evaluation: After learning to wait for my Epson or HP scanner to do something, it was a joy to plug this baby in and watch it whirr. It's not a scanner for slides (no slide capabilities) and other higher-quality work, but for a general, every day workhorse, it's a joy to work with. The Canoscan software included is also more intuitive than either the HP or Epson (low-end) scanners I have worked with. The maximum resolution is not great, but I never need the maximum resolution, nor do most people. The only drawbacks I've seen are that the quality of printing of color pages is weak, and, as someone else mentioned, it's depth of field is not the greatest. Today I had to scan my wife's passport in color and there was blue shading all around the passport. I don't have experience using it with color photos, but I suspect I'd do better with those on my wife's Epson. There are color adjustment controls that are very easy to use if you scan from your photo editing program. There are some minor tweaks I'd like to see in the software, such as the ability to change a few more of the default settings. Also the default black and white settings are only occasionally adequate for me. Again, they are easy to change, but a bit annoying to have to do so each time. For the category of scanner it is, I'd give it 5 stars. Since it's not perfect (what is?) I'll give it 4.