Canon CanoScan 3000ex Color Flatbed Scanner

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 18.1 x 10.1 x 2.4 inches ; 5.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 10 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002E57ZM
• Item model number: 9760A001
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 12, 2004

Product Description

Product Description

The CanoScan 3000 ex brings speed and high image quality to truly affordable scanning. Advantages include a USB 2.0 Hi-Speed interface and fast Multi-Photo mode to ensure superb scanning productivity.Meet all your scanning needs easily with the fast yet affordable CanoScan 3000 ex. A USB 2.0 Hi-Speed interface transfers data between your scanner and PC at amazing speed, making it perfect for high resolution scanning.Whether you're scanning photos or documents get great results every time, thanks to Canon's innovative technology and unsurpassed optical expertise. 48-bit internal color depth delivers exceptional color accuracy whilst 1200 x 2400 dpi resolution captures the sharpest details. Freshen up old photos with a single click - QARE (Quality Automatic Retouching and Enhancement) removes dust and scratches, producing scans of photos that look as good as the day they were taken.Enhance creativity with Canon's comprehensive software package. This includes ArcSoft PhotoStudio and PhotoBase for image editing and management and Caere OmniPage SE for converting scanned documents to text.Scan multiple photos in a single operation. Skewed images are straightened automatically. They can then be filed, forwarded as email attachments or printed directly. It's the simplest and most efficient way to scan multiple photos - and Hi-Speed USB processing saves you even more time.Three 'EZ' buttons can be configured to simplify standard tasks, so with just one touch you can scan images directly to a file, copy them or send them straight to your email program. Canon's advanced Z-lid, with a double hinge, allows easy scanning of thick documents and books.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

50 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Scanner at a Greater Price, February 10, 2005

By	E. Cunningham "I'm not a techy!" (Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was looking for something that I could use to scan personal documents. I ran across a write-up on this scanner in the electronic version of PC Mag. I figured, "why not?" For the price, you can't beat it. Even if it turns out to be a bad choice it's only $50.00, right? I have to tell you that this was the best electronic item that I have purchased in many, many years. It actually does what it's supposed to do; does it quickly and in several different document formats. Also, all documentation is straight and to the point -- no computer-ese required. I would recommend this to anyone -- especially when you have color photos you would like to scan and email or for those pesky documents that only real estate agents and insurance companies use. File formats are .pdf, jpeg, .bmp and tiff. An amazing little machine.

46 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Scanner!, March 24, 2005

A Kid's Review

I have a web site that is all about my cats. My mom has this real old Plustek Skanner, and I was going to use it to make a sketches section in my site, but when I scanned my first sheet, two things went wrong.
1. VERY slow.
2. When I saw the sheet, there was blue and pink and green everywhere.
I then started looking on ebay for a good scanner. I checked best buy. Then I checked wal-mart. Wal-mart had a really nice scanner on there web site. $48. I then read some reviews. The CanoScan 3000ex was one of the best scanners out there. I looked in three walmarts in one day to try to find it. We had to settle for ordering of of Amazon (it's easier to get it locally). It came very fast though. The scanner itself has three different buttons: Scan, Copy, E-Mail. It also comes with Arcsoft PhotoStudio and ArcSoft PhotoBase. Thoose are a lot to buy alone too. You can press any button on the scanner and it does it almost instantly. If you were like me, and had been looking at a lot of site for the scanner, I'll bet that you saw the USB 2.0 logo. I never thought that 2.0 versus 1.1 would be such a big difference. It is quite a big difference though. With the buttons, you can program them to automaticly save to a specified location, make x # of copies and use the printer of your choice, and I haven't tried the E-Mail button. This is one of the best things that is electronic that I have ever gotton. It is very cheap and very good. Enjoy.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent value, June 23, 2005

By	Twain - See all my reviews

I have not really used other scanners, so I cannot say for sure that a more expensive scanner would not have more features or be better in some other way. But what I can say is that I am very pleased with my Canoscan 3000 EX. For the price, it performs all basic scanning functions simply, quickly, and efficiently. The quality of the output is extremely good. It is very easy to use. I did not have to look at the instruction manual. This scanner is also seamlessly recognized by Adobe Photoshop if you want to make multipage PDF's. Overall, I'm sure there are scanners that are in some way "better" but for the price, why risk finding out.