Customer Reviews

HP ScanJet 2300c Flatbed Scanner

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

I own this scanner and I'm happy with it. I'm sure there are faster scanners on the market at a higher price, but if you're looking for one that does a good job (and you are in no hurry), this is a good buy. I use it to scan photos for my website.

If you are into hi-tech, perhaps you should buy a more expensive scanner. It depends on what your individual needs are as to whether or not you will like this one. It serves the purpose for me and that's why I gave it 5 stars.

All HP Scanjets, EXCEPT HP Scanjet 2300c, are equipped with an exclusive combination of two sensors: Staggered pixel CCD and Tri-linear CCD.

Also...

Long story, short: In a period of exactly 2 years, I've seen two HP Scanjet 2300c scanners fail due to hardware issues. My original newly-bought HP Scanjet 2300c couldn't slide the moving device under the glass all the way after less than a year. A year after that, the refurbished HP Scanjet 2300c replacement, sent by HP to replace the original, had a lamp failure, causing heavily faded images with green tint. HP tech support also suggested interference with other electronics near the scanner (speakers, monitors, computer...).

Perhaps I was terribly unlucky. The HP Scanjet 2300c had excellent quality...when it worked. But reliability and lifespan are both important as well.

This product is horrendous! The software constantly freezes up, forcing me to reboot and the scanning head gets stuck on the glass. I had to pry open the top half of the scanner and rest it on the bottom to get it to scan at all. Do not buy this product!

This scanner works out just fine for home or office for basic scanning and the photos are quality. Sure there are better, faster and more expensive scanners out there, but for the price this is darn nice. Installation is cake. Also, it really is not that slow. I have seen slower scanners.

I have used mine not only for making copies of documents but also to scan coins (e.g.- for sale on eBay). It works great! The top cover can be easily raised an inch or so for larger objects. Speed and scan quality have been fine for my purposes.

I bought this scanner for a computer room in the children's dept of a busy public library. Our computer trainer thought the software was pretty good and although it isn't a fast, high end scanner we are quite happy with it. It's actually a very good scanner for the price.

I bought this scanner a couple of months back and of the scanners I have ever used, this would take the spot as the worst. The software really stinks - the folks who designed the software that went into this must live on another planet. The scanner is slooooow. I bought HP as all the scanners I've used have been HP - but I am currently looking around to try and replace this scanner.

i bought a scanner, its an HP Scanjet 3300c flatbed. i thought id buy the best nbame coz all my producs are HP, i like my deskjets but this time i really got frustrated with this. What are the cons: first, its bulky very large and not compact, second, it is not portable it will surely get broken when u travel it around, 3rd hassle in setup as you need all those cables, adapters, cds and when you lose one, goodbye HP scanner, fourth low quality software compare it with Canon's slim scanner and great software HP would look so pathetic and you got nothing to do with it, fifth very poor customer support when it gets broken you either have it replaced immediately by HP, its almost non serviceable, what if it passed your one year warranty?

i love HP Deskjet Printers, and their Laser Printers remain the top of its class, but the Scanjet Series would be their water loo, like having products from Jurrrasic Era.

Good scanner, decent software.

The scanner itself is lightweight and somewhat small, though it is not intended for space-saving. It's not bulky like most Visioneer models, but it's not slim, either. The one problem I have with the scanner itself is that the top often slides off when I don't intend it to, and it's annoying to have to put the little hinges back into the scanner.

The quality is okay; it's not something I'd use to scan pictures and expect them to be all perfect quality, but I scan art with this scanner, and for that purpose it is sufficient. It's not meant for something professional, and for the price it is well worth it.

As far as the software goes... the people complaining that it makes their computers freeze probably have a technical problem with their computers, not the actual scanner or the scanner software. Problems such as this could easily be fixed if people had the incentive to actually learn a little something about computers, instead of expecting the entire digital world to work with the simplicity and "user friendly" ease of AOL or Windows XP. It'd be nice if all of the digital world did work like that, but the real world doesn't, either. Sometimes it's a simple problem such as a driver incorrectly installed or the wrong driver installed (which, in most cases, is the USER's fault) and people spend months struggling with their computers going haywire. Then they end up complaining that it's the company's fault, when a lot of times I'm just seeing it's the innate inability for some humans to interact with technology. I'm just a little tired of seeing good products get bad reviews and bad ratings because people don't know how to work with technology.

Tangent aside, this is pretty much a good scanner with decent software (personally, I prefer importing the images through Adobe, but, whatever).

Don't buy this scanner.
Though the hardware is reasonable at the price (but mine malfunctions if placed too close to the computer), the software is truly the worst software of any type that I have seen in recent years. The software has infuriating problems such as refusing to scan an image of standard dimensions unless I preview every scan. As a result this scanner is very hard and very slow to use for scanning printed documents intended to send to an OCR package. I was expecting it to be slow but it is unspeakably slow because the software is VERY slow to laod and initialize and many of the software features can't be used and workarounds are needed at every turn. I was trying to use it on an 800MHz Windows 98 computer. The updated drivers on the HP web site are in some ways worse than the older ones. When you've wrestled with it for an hour to scan in a simple 15 page document you will get the idea. Best avoided if you can find any alternative.