HP ScanJet 6300Cse Professional Color Scanner

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• Shipping Weight: 18 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000034DBK
• Item model number: SJ63300Cse
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1973

Product Description

Amazon.com Review
The HP ScanJet 6300Cse is a good basic scanner for home or small office use. As with all the Hewlett-Packard scanners, it's extremely easy to set up, and you can set it up and start scanning in no time at all.

Setup and software installation were quick, easy, and intuitive. The oversized installation guidelines are easy to read and simple to follow (although reading them is as cumbersome as wrestling with a full-size road map in the car). If you want additional assistance, you will need to check the electronic owner's manual stored on the CD-ROM, since no printed owner's manual is included. The novice can benefit from using the online coach, which guides you through basic tasks and will have you producing work after a quick and thorough tutorial (10 minutes was all it took for us to run through the steps).

With a warm-up time of just under a minute and a half, the scanner is soon ready to reproduce flat images and slides. The slide adapter is a bit cumbersome, with too much leeway in the placement of the slide, though the scans it produced were vivid. Scanner buttons allow you to scan an image (which is then displayed on screen via the driver software), or use a number of other features. The printer button essentially functions as a copier; just press it once to scan and print. Scanned images can also be easily faxed or attached to an e-mail.

This is a relatively effortless scanner to use, and a good basic model that can meet a wide range of needs. It is an especially good choice for home use. Solutions to most problems can be either intuited or solved with the guide. We were pleased with the crisp images we obtained on both an ink-jet and a laser printer. --David Greenberger

Pros:

• Fast, easy setup

Cons:

• Slide adapter is cumbersome

Product Description
With the HP ScanJet 6300Cse Professional Series color scanner, you can become more effective at creating, incorporating, manipulating, sending, and storing information than you've ever been before. Yes, it's a scanner - the fastest one in its class. But don't just scan photographs, multipage documents, and drawings in seconds flat; it streamlines the process for you. And it's doing it at optical resolutions of up to 1,200 dpi.Just place an original on the scanner and select one of five front-panel buttons that best suits your needs, whether it's to scan, copy, e-mail, fax, or file. Then let the HP ScanJet 6300Cse eliminate all those intermediate steps that used to slow you down. HP Intelligent Scanning Technology automatically sends your scan to the selected application for immediate results. You'll get clear, sharp output. And, best of all, you'll get the right file format, file size, and resolution for the application.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

288 of 291 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unsurprisingly good, December 8, 1999

By	Frazer Middleton (Atlanta, GA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I'd never really thought about getting a scanner, but as time has gone by, I've started to realize some of the possibilities that I've been missing previously.

So, I dived in and bought this HP 6300Cse (coincidentally, the differences between "se" and "xi" versions are a single software package, so far as I could tell). I'm really impressed.

Setup was as easy as it could be, especially with the poster that comes in the box. Plug USB cable here and here, add power. Hey presto. The software installation is similarly easy, a nice touch being able to select all the packages you want up front, and then starting each of their respective setup programs (as necessary). Don't expect too much in the way of printed documentation - there isn't any. You shouldn't need it though, and the software comes with more than enough documentation online (in PDF format).

The software provided is nothing short of outstanding. PhotoDeluxe is very good, very intuitive. The provided HP ScanJet Pro software is also excellent (and this is the piece that I find myself using most). The OCR software seems to work pretty well - but make sure you spell-check that document before sending it to your boss, it DOES get confused sometimes. (I saw it convert "move" to "||OVe", which is the worst I've seen, by far).

I like the concept of PageKeeper, but don't use it much. (The intent is to use it as a "scanned document manager" - I'm not exactly swimming in paper, so I don't care too much) It does its job adequately.

Scanning quality is first rate - printed materials are crystal clear when scanned. A printed (magazine) picture will even pick up the CMYK dots. Wow! Photographic scan quality is a dream.

Overall, simple to setup and use, excellent bundled software, and brilliant scanning to boot. You can't go wrong.

76 of 80 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No problems and both thumbs up., April 11, 2000

By A Customer

HP has done this one right. Installation was completely idiot proof. Using the scanner is surprisingly simple for basic operations. The included software titles are well thought out, high quality applications that cover all the bases from a simple, "make a copy spit out of the printer with 1 press of a scanner button" to a fantasy 1 gigabite scan of a 3x5 photo with more resolution than any eyeball could detect. More importantly the scanner & software handles all situations inbetween. An impractical example of the the capabilities was a photo I printed from a developed 35mm film negative. I scanned the negative at 1200dpi using the included slide adapter, then sent the scan to the included Adobe Photoshop (Business Edition). I then reversed the color polarity of the image, adjusted color balance, contrast, individually fixed scratches and dust marks, then printed out an 8x10 on inkjet photo paper that rivals the original 4x6 print. It takes a lot of system resources for a proceedure like this(e.g. 64meg pentium166, 1/2 gig swap file space, 100k to save the image), but if you want it, the capability is there with equipment like this.

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent quality scans and easy to use, September 25, 2000

By	Kelly Shipp (Conway, AR USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you're looking for a fast, easy-to-use, flatbed scanner -- look no further. It produces high-quality scans with ease of use. The buttons on the front allow you to easily make copies (just press the Print button!), or fax it, or e-mail it, etc. Very easy to use and set-up. I'm very happy with the results. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because the Slide Adapter doesn't produce very good results from 35mm slides. They are "ok", but not great. But as for the flatbed scanner, it's fantastic!