Remanufactured Canon CanoScan 8400F Flatbed Scanner

by Canon Office Products

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 15 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000AAN75K
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 19, 2005

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The feature-rich Canon CanoScan 8400F Color Image Scanner lets you produce superb high-speed scans of a wide range of materials. Now, you can easily scan valuable photos, important documents, books, old slides and even medium-format film. Your results? A spectacular 3,200 x 6,400 color dpi resolution (maximum) and 48-bit color depth, for over 281 trillion possible colors.

Thanks to its high-end image processor and USB 2.0 Hi-Speed interface, this powerful scanner can provide super-fast image transfers to your computer, allowing you to see previews in approximately 2 seconds. For added convenience, four easy buttons--scan, copy, email, and PDF-automate the scanning process; so your projects can get done more quickly. Just position your original, select the use for the image, and in seconds it's ready to go. Canon's Hyper CCD III System on the 8400F Scanner features a 3200 dpi sensor offering greater light sensitivity with smaller pixels for capturing more image detail, as compared to 2400 dpi scanners.

Are some of your most precious images on old slides and negatives worn and collecting dust? Canon has a simple solution: FARE (Film Automatic Retouching and Enhancement) Level 3. Its built-in retouching technology handles the most common problems found with old negatives and slides. It can remove much of the dust and scratches that may appear on your originals. It can also revive images that have faded over time. Plus, Backlight Correction Technology works to adjust image exposure, and Grain Correction will help smooth out grainy images.

What's in the Box
Refurbished Canon 8400f scanner, AC adapter, USB cable, film guides (35mm negatives, 35mm mounted slides, 120 roll film strip), setup CD-ROM, user's guide

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Slide Scanner, October 8, 2005

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Gottfried F. Metzler "Ole Photographer" (New Jersey, USA) - See all my reviews
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Over the last 45 years, or so, I have amassed close to 9,000 slides, in varoiud formats; 16 mm, 35 mm, 2-14" and 2-1/4" X 3-14". I am scanning and edting all the pictures for my family. The scanner does a wondeful job.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars No Quality Control, October 1, 2005

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P. Mehendale (Grapevine, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Remanufactured Canon CanoScan 8400F Flatbed Scanner (Office Product)

I bought this scanner knowing this was a refurbished item. Amazon delivered it on-time and as usual the service from Amazon was excellent. The scanner is another thing.

First, the scanner was not locked as it should have been when I opened it. But that is not a big deal. The problem was that this scanner came with a bad lamp right out of the box! All scans had a bright yellow and red color in them (even white documents). The Canon customer service confirmed this and were ready to send another one. But I decided to return it to Amazon anyway.

What struck me is that they promised it to be "FACTORY REFURBISHED" and they did not check such a basic thing as if it scans correctly or not. This makes me think that Canon just repacks them and takes a chance that it may be good. Decided to go with another brand and stick with brand new!

Amazon quickly refunded the full amount. I give 5 stars to Amazon and 1 to Canon.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I'm Impressed!, September 23, 2005

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Ronald Kushnier - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Remanufactured Canon CanoScan 8400F Flatbed Scanner (Office Product)

Well, I just finished scanning my entire 35mm slide collection consisting of over 500 slides.

The main purpose of this project was to transfer the slide images onto CDs and prepare a slide show for TV through a DVD player. As such, I scanned the slides at 1200DPI.

The slides represented a variety of dates and chemistries included Ektachrome, Kodachrome, gaf Pana-Vue, and other non-marked types, going all the way back to 1969.

Now, I must admit I did go against much of the advice give to me by professionals and members of my own computer club. The consensus was that slides were too hard to scan, took too much time, and one would see better results by sending off the slides to a professional service. Based on the results of my previous experimentation (slide projected photos, old scanner modifications), I had to agree with the experts. Had I had a small number of slides, I would have sent them away to be processed, but with the quantity I was dealing with, and not knowing which ones I wanted to digitize, I was just about ready to give up the project altogether.

I then did my homework and found that both Epson and Cannon produced relatively low cost flat bed scanners, which scanned slides and film. I read very good reports about the Cannon 8400F, and found that Amazon was selling refurbished units very reasonably.

I have been very impressed with both the scanner and the software provided. The delivered unit arrived looking "Brand New". The 8400F is BIG! - Much bigger than its little brother the 4200F. I rationalized its "big-ness" as representing "commercial quality".

The scanner, with the CanoScan software does an excellent job on 35mm slides. Combined with the included, ArcSoft PhotoStudio 5.5, and other bundled software, you basically have a whole photo lab at your disposal.

The scanner scans four slides at a time, which really helps. It takes about 12 minutes to do the scan at 1200 DPI, and another three minutes or so, to orient and make minor improvements to the images in PhotoStudio. That may seem like a long time, but through the magic of "multi-tasking" the operator is free to do other things, like check e-mail, or write articles, while the slides are scanning. CanoScan even offers you the option to hear your favorite MP3 or WAV file while the machine is "doing its thing".

Aside from the "slides" project, in the short amount of time I've had this scanner, I've used the "Stitch" feature of the software, which automatically pulls together scans that are bigger than the platen, and the "pull-up scanner lid" for scanning bulky items ( I scanned a diploma in its frame.

All-in-all, I can heartily recommend both the Scanner and Amazon.