Visioneer OneTouch 8700 USB Scanner

by Visioneer

Product Details

Product Manual [1.34mb PDF]

• Item Weight: 6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 8 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005RKO1
• Item model number: 87001D-WU
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #64 in Electronics > Camera & Photo > Printers & Scanners > Flatbed Scanners
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 2, 2002

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The Visioneer 48-bit, 1,200 x 4,800 dpi OneTouch 8700 USB is an excellent scanning solution because it's easy to use. Just touch a button and Visioneer's OneTouch technology gives you perfect results on everyday scanning tasks.

Its 48-bit internal color capability recognizes 281 trillion colors. The 48-bit scanners capture more detail in the shadow and highlight areas of an image than do their 42-bit predecessors, so you'll get brighter yellows, richer reds, cooler blues, and everything between.

Optical resolution of 1,200 x 4,800 dpi eliminates jagged edges and captures the finest detail from your original. That's enough resolution to turn a 4-by-6-inch photo into a 16-by-24-inch image with no loss of detail.

Just press a OneTouch button to scan and send an image to the destination of your choice. While intelligent default button settings give perfect results on common scanning tasks, the OneTouch preferences utility makes it simple to customize the buttons.

Product Description

The 1200x4800 dpi, 48-bit color Visioneer OneTouch 8700 USB scanner with FlashBack Bi-directional AutoScan Technology is one of the easiest scanners in the world to setup and use. The compact landscape case has seven convenient buttons that make faxing, copying, OCR, emailing and storing images and text effortless. Includes MGI PhotoSuite LE, the award-winning ScanSoft PaperPort Deluxe for storing documents and images on local or network drives and ScanSoft TextBridge Pro OCR. The OneTouch 8700 USB has a 16-bit A/D converter that recognizes over 280 trillion colors. Attaches via USB port and works with Windows 98, 2000, Millennium and XP. Model Number 87001D-WU Part Number 90-0468-000 Driver TWAIN Driver Supported Operating Systems OneTouch 3 - Windows XP with SP 1 / 2000 Professional / Me / 98SE Minimum System Requirements Pentium equivalent or higher processor Memory Requirements: * 64 MB RAM for Windows 2000 / Me / 98SE * 128 MB RAM for Windows XP 160 MB of available Hard Disk Space CD-ROM drive Color Monitor USB Port Software Bundle ScanSoft PaperPort Deluxe Built-in ScanSoft TextBridge OCR engine MGI PhotoSuite LE Optical Resolution 1200 x 4800 dpi Hardware Supersampling 4800 dpi Enhanced Resolution (Interpolated) 4800 dpi Scanner Bit Depth (color) 48-bit internal (over 281 trillion colors) Scanner Bit Depth (grayscale) 16-bit internal (65,536 shades) Scanning Area Up to 8.5 in x 11.69 in (21.6 cm x 29.7 cm) A4/letter Scan Method Fast Single Pass with FlashBack AutoScan Scanner Light Source Cold Cathode Florescent Lamp Interface USB Dimensions 16.7 in x 11.7 in x 3.7 in (42.7 cm x 29.7 cm x 9.4 cm) Weight 5.9 lbs (2.8kg)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Find, Makes Up For the 3 Years I Wasted on HP, July 31, 2002

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Mrs. Emma Peel "gimmejewelry" (Houston, Texas United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Visioneer OneTouch 8700 USB Scanner (Office Product)

This scanner was a wonderful surprise in a market swimming with inferior machines that leave you with ugly scans and a lot of headaches.

I use this to take close-up photos of jewelry for eBay auctions, so the photos need to be clear and the color true or people will bite your head off :o). I will admit that the reason I went for this one was because of the price (and the fact that it wasn't made by HP). I was spending double on Hewlitt Packard scanners and, one year later on the nose everytime, each one of them broke. Their customer service was as lousy as their products.

You do need to be just a little scanner savvy in the beginning to get the configurations right for whatever you're scanning, but once you get the hang of it your images come out beautiful (the color is brilliant). I have Millenium, and had no problem setting everything up.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Poor Windows XP support, October 13, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Visioneer OneTouch 8700 USB Scanner (Office Product)

Don't buy this scanner if you are using Windows XP or if you want to do custom scans. The OneTouch feature works well, but I've had bad luck with the TWAIN driver locking up software. It also doesn't work with the Windows XP "switch user" feature because it will crash the scanner driver and the scanner itself goes crazy. Visioneer tech support confirmed that they don't support the "switch user" feature.

28 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not what I'd hoped for., November 19, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Visioneer OneTouch 8700 USB Scanner (Office Product)

After 1 week of trying to get it to work correctly with my printers I finally returned it to Best Buy who accepted it with no questions asked. It seemed to work fine with documents but not with photos. Not much HELPFUL documentation, tech support answered my E-mails quickly but kept referring me elsewhere. One-touch buttons are fine for simple documents but if you need to change the printer settings for better quality it takes awhile. This was a replacement for my HP4200 which gave me much nicer photos. The Visioneer OneTouch 8700 would probably be fine for some scans but not photo quality.