Canon CanoScan LiDE 60

Canon CanoScan LiDE 60

CanoScan LiDE 60 Review, by Richard Jantz October 5, 2005

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• Reviewed by: jerryrigg

  Strengths: Size, price

  Weaknesses: light weight scanning and copying. User interface.

  Overall: My new Dell computer decides to recognize the device about 30 percent of the time. Sometimes re-plugging it in works, sometimes not.Windows does not recognize driver, but driver's definitely installed. Sent one back to Canon, new one does the same thing.very Frustrating.

• Reviewed by: jdandrews

  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: 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.

• Reviewed by: Joell33

  Strengths: Price, looks, no power cable.

  Weaknesses: Scanning quality, Scanning quality and did I mention scanning quality? Also the loudness, mediocre speed.

  Overall: Ok, let's start with noting that EVERY OTHER REVIEWER ON THIS PAGE IS NOT SMART. since you got my attention, let's clear few things up: I won't touch weight (you don't keep it on your lap FFS, since when it ever mattered?!). I won't try to compare it with a printer or scanner from two decades ago. Now to details. This is my fourth scanner, so I know what quality and speed is. Speed: is MEDICORE. Not fast, but not slow either. If speed is an issue for you, you can look better, if not it's ok. Sound level: It is noisy as hell, in that very irritating high-pitched kind of noise. For the size and preformace of the thing, you could expect it to be ultra quiet. It's not. Scanning quality: One word - RUB.BISH. It's a cheap scanner and it really shows. It can't even get purest B/W print without mixing entire rainbow of colors into it. Geometry reproduction is a joke and you really need all that 'cool' digital image improvements to make your scanned photos minimally acceptable. With all digital improvements on, it's still worse than vanilla Microtek scan. Depth of field is non existal. I have no idea why they bothered with removable lid (ok I know - it's because every other scanner have it), if the scanner can't see anything farther than 1cm. Side way stand would be a great idea, IF IT ACTUALLY WORKED. Paper sheets will slid inbetween glass and hull, giving you misaligned images 90% of times. Only good for saving space when you're not using it. Only plus I count is being USB powered - saves you one power socket. To sum up: If you're really tight on budget and don't give a thing about quality of your scans, get one of those. Otherwise AVOID AT ALL COST. and I have no idea how this scanner landed at top5 in the ranking. There are dozens of scanners better than this one.

• Reviewed by: Elmware

  Strengths: Z-Fold makes scanning thick books an ease. Scan multiple photos in one swipe and software will automatically crop and straighten each one. Excellent quality. Compact and light. USB powered.

  Weaknesses: Not exactly the world's fastest scanner compared to the Epson AcuLaser CX11NF printer at my work.

  Overall: I bought this scanner just before Christmas because I needed to scan a bunch of family photo albums for a presentation I was preparing for a memorial service. The MultiScan feature which autocrops and straightens the pictures made scanning the photos a breaze and they got done in no time at all.It definately beats having a hand-held greyscale scanner that I used to have about 15 years ago.

• Reviewed by: brucewestfall

  Strengths: No stupid big square powerbox. Just uses USB port! Small, and with the sideways stand takes up even LESS room.

  Weaknesses: Does make an irritating sound.

  Overall: I'm using Ubuntu Linux. I read the above reviews and saw the mention of the program SANE. I checked with the Synaptic Package Manager, clicked 'sane' and installed it. (This is free and automatic in Linux, which will confuse Windows users...)Then I plugged it in, started GIMP, went to the image aquire area, and the thing sprang to life! It scanned what I had while making its annoying noise and up popped the image for me to use.An absolutely wonderful experience that was quicker than typing this.