- Automatic feeder for 3-by-5 and 4-by-6-inch photos
- 2,400 dpi optical resolution
- 48-bit color depth; no warm-up time
- Light adapter for 35mm negatives and slides
- 7 one-touch buttons for easy operation
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Rather than scanning photos one by one, the HP 5500c can automatically scan a whole stack of 3-by-5 or 4-by-6-inch photos. The automatic photo feeder scans multiple photos at the press of a button, the first scan taking only 7 seconds.
Featuring up to 2,400 dpi optical resolution and 48-bit color for printing, e-mailing and posting to the Web, the HP 5500 offers seven one-touch buttons for quick execution of common tasks, including scan, copy, e-mail, and share-to-Web. The scanner reproduces in both monochrome and color, and can make up to 99 copies at once with convenient front-panel controls.
The 5500c comes with lots of extras, including HP photo and imaging software, memories disc creator, copy utility, share-to-Web, and ArcSoft Funhouse for Windows. This model is USB 2.0 compatible and includes a USB cable. It is backed by a one-year warranty.
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Scan a stock of 3x5 or 4x6, upto 2400dpi, 48bit color, includes lighted adapter, scans 35mm negatives and slides
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50 of 54 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Fast, high quality scans, but....,
By A Customer
This review is from: HP 5500c Scanjet Scanner (Office Product)
I bought this primarily for the automatic photo feeder. It was great to be able to put in a stack of photos (I went up to 25 at a time) and walk away while it scanned. Had only one or two times when the feeder jammed; wished it would have allowed continuing after clearing the jam instead of stopping scanning on the batch completely. Quality is excellent but I'm returning it as it takes too much time to adjust the scans afterwards ("auto straighten" feature doesn't help--photos frequently feed crooked; part of scanner hardware ends up in the scans; frequently get 1/2" black band on left in scans). I might as well scan each manually so it will be done right the first time.
24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not perfect, not awful.,
By A Customer
This review is from: HP 5500c Scanjet Scanner (Office Product)
After reading all the negative reviews, I hesitated to purchase the 5500c. But with the knowledge that I can take it back for a full refund within two weeks, I bit the bullet and purchased one. I really, really wanted a scanner that could automatically feed photos, as I have intended for years to digitize all my prints, slides etc.; but sitting in front of the computer for hours and hours, manually feeding thousands of photos one by one, has so far not been working for me. Life is too short. So I am happy to report that so far, I have experienced only minor glitches with the 5500c, which can be expected of just about any new computer software or hardware product these days. (Hopefully this review is not premature!) Some people complained about how the software automatically organizes photos by month. What they don't mention is that there is a box you can simply check if you don't want it to do it that way. Further, under one of the settings menus you can select the destination folder, which allows limitless organizing possibilities. For example, in Windows Explorer you can create a folder called "wedding photos" and then program the scanner to send all your wedding photos to that folder, automatically sequentially numbered. Then you can create a separate folder called "vacation photos," change the setting in the scanner software, and send all your vacation photos there. It could not be easier. So I don't get what all the hub-bub is about. Second, people complained about endless software installation problems, freezes, driver conflicts, etc. I have a Dell P3 600MHz with 128MB ram, running Windows 98 - not exactly top of the line - and I had absolutely no problems, conflicts or errors installing and running the software first time up. I was scanning photos within 30 minutes of pulling the machine out of the box. So maybe I am just lucky, but thankfully I cannot report the same issues or frustrations. Finally, the ADF. Just about everyone reported problems with the photo feeder, and I must admit, I experienced a few jams when I got down to the last 3 or 4 photos in each stack of 20 or 30. Maybe it will get worse as dust accumulates on the rollers. But contrary to other peoples' reports, even when I did get the "document jam" message, I did not lose any of the photos that had scanned through on that run (all of which just fed through like clockwork) -- so all I had to do was stick the 3 or 4 remaining photos in on top of the next stack, and they went right through. All the previous photos went right into the designated folder. And yes, the scans do show part of the track on the underside of the cover - but I don't care. I am just archiving all these photos so I can retire my shoe-boxes full of photos to a shelf already reserved in the basement, and have all my photos on a CD or two. So if I later have to manually crop all these scans, big deal. The advantage of not having to sit in front of my computer, endlessly lifting the scanner lid, placing a photo, lowering the lid and hitting "scan" thousands of times, outweighs all the imperfections of this unit. Perhaps I should have waited for the next model to come out - but I have waited about five years for this one, so I think that is long enough. Frankly I am surprised every scanner manufacturer doesn't have a comparable product on the market, as the photo feeder seems to be such an obviously desirable feature. Oh, and by the way, the scans are beautiful, even at 300 dpi. I played around with the negative/slide reader too, and that seemed easy to use and pretty handy - although you have to set the resolution way higher to get a comparable scan to a 6x4 print, which greatly slows down the process. (I tried 9600 dpi, which created a 22MB file out of a strip of 4 negatives.) But that only makes sense, as you are essentially "blowing up" a tiny negative into an image that is, at 100%, even larger than your computer screen. So in summary, while the 5500c is not perfect, it is better than any other scanner out there right now that comes with an automatic photo feeder and a negative/slide reader, for under [$$$]. I am willing, for now, to live with its imperfections, if for no other reason than a pathetic lack of alternatives.
19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not worth the cardboard box it came in,
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This review is from: HP 5500c Scanjet Scanner (Office Product)
First, I am a HUGE HP fan. I love their printers and have had 8 over the last 14 years and still have four of them all over the house. I have used and loved HP Laser and Inkjet printers since the early 90s. So I really looked forward to using their scanner and photo feeder because my family of 6 has many thousands of 3.5 x 5 and 4 x 6 photos we want to scan and save to DVD. This was to be THE answer. Boy, was I wrong. Well, HP was wrong, I was just gullible.
This scanner jammed on every picture fed into it if you were not standing there to make sure that when it was shot out, it dropped flat. Then it failed to correctly crop all but one photo in each batch. This scanner should have been dumped in a trashcan the first day I bought it but it was the only game in town so I after a call to HP Customer Service, I waited for a YEAR for HP to come out with the promised 2.0 software so that it would correctly crop the photos.. Version 1 would correctly crop ONE out of 24. The LONG awaited Version 2.0 would correctly crop the first and the last one of 24. Version 2 did almost nothing to make this any more an AUTOMATIC photo feed scanner than it was before. What is the point if you have to feed each one by hand and then re crop and rename them all??? I finally got rid of this doorstop and yesterday I went out and bought the new Epson Perfection 2480 Limited Edition! For any of you that want a scanner that actually scans AND crops the pictures correctly; IT WORKS PERFECTLY! Within ten minutes of opening the box, I placed a stack of 16 3.5 x 5 for the first batch and then a stack of 24 4 x 6 into the hopper and gave it a file name (HP does NOT do this part) and it scanned them all, PERFECTLY CROPPED, named them with the name I gave then and then appended the correct 001, 002, etc after! It also remembered the last number so the next batch would just start numbers where you left off. The Epson software interface is a bit clunky (no worse than HPs poor interface) but the scanner does it's job flawlessly! It scanned all the pictures with absolutely no help from me and it cropped them all perfectly and named them perfectly! The ONLY thing left for me to do was to turn the landscape ones right side up (using Vallen Jpegger, of course, to avoid any loss)!! I am in heaven! I will truly be able to scan those thousands of family photos, UNATTENDED. If you are in the market for a scanner to scan a LOT of snapshots and you do not want to have to do hours of work to fix them, do NOT buy the HP Auto Photo feeder models. Hope this helps.
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