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Planon Docupen RC 800 Scanner | 
 enlarge | Brand: Planon
Category: CE
Buy New: £162.48
New (3) from £162.48
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 14577
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
MPN: DPEN-RC800
EAN: 5055147523061
ASIN: B000L43KPW
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand NEW - Shipped FAST from the UK
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Product Description
Experience the new way of scanning with Planon's DocuPen RC800! With its penlike ergonomy, the RC800 includes a very efficient optical scanner, capable of scanning a 8" (in diagonal) surface, up to a depth of colours in 24 bits. Working on battery power and an internal 8MB memory, as well as a MicroSD memory slot, the DocuPen RC800 can store up to 100 pages very quickly (hardly several seconds per page), with a resolution up to 400 dpi. Thanks to the USB port, the RC800 can be connected to the PC and you can transfer the scanned files and at the same time charge the internal battery. Very practical and compact, the DocuPen RC800 will enable you to scan documents of any type, wherever, whenever and in a minimum amount of time and is going to change your working habits dramatically!
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 Planon Docupen RC800 September 2, 2008
L. Carr (London)
This scanning pen is an excellent piece of kit. I've had mine a year now and I have to say that every image I have scanned has downloaded perfectly. I work on the go a lot and often have to scan in high resolution images for presenting to legal institutions. Its so easy to use, once you start scanning your page there is a little red cross that flashes for a split second if you are moving too fast. You just slow down slightly if that happens. Its all automatic...as soon as you start moving the scanner down the page on its rollers it lights up. When you stop scanning for more than two seconds a light flashes telling you the image is being stored. Usually it takes around 8 seconds to get a perfect A4 page. A perfect scan of your passport takes 4 seconds . Downloading images is very quick by USB and is only slightly slowed down if you fill your memory card. The trick is to erase the image from the card once you have downloaded it then it wont interfere with your next download. 5 stars go to this product .
 The equivalent of an extremely stupid pretty blonde February 16, 2008
Janset Shawash
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I cannot begin to describe how disappointed I am with this product.
When I first heard of it, I thought it was a dream come true. I am a researcher and often have access to documents which I cannot take home to scan (archives, maps, etc.). My previous methods were either lugging my bulky flatbed scanner around with me and praying to find an electric plug, or taking pictures with a camera (blurry results even with an SLR). So this handheld scanner would've solved a big problem.
Despite all the negative reviews on the net (complaints about cheap presentation, slow speed, constant shutting down, etc.; I recommend you read up before trying to buy it) I figured I'd give it a shot. I could put up with all of that for the sake of having something portable. I was sooo wrong. The product does live up to all its negative reviews and more!! You would've thought that Planon had actually improved its product (it has been on the market for more than a year). But No, they didn't!
So to sum things up: The scanner is meant to be independent, small and rechargeable. You turn it on, swipe it over the scanned material at moderate speed, the motion is detected and the scanner is turned on, it saves the image to an internal memory and shuts down. Afterwards you plug it into your PC and download the images for saving/ processing.
After trying it, the only positive thing I have to say: it is indeed a very small and nicely shaped machine. But read below before you decide it's good enough as a show-off tool.
The negatives: looks too cheap for its worth; feels too cheap for its worth; acts like a 99p child's toy: the general operation speed is very slow, slow to start up, very slow to transmit pictures to computer, very very slow to format. The interface looks very outdated (something from 1995), and has very few options. The scanner would scan only one picture before shutting down, and not without problems. I did not get even one satisfactory image scanned by this thing. The motion detector would not operate until the scanner was moving too fast and by then it would be too late to try again, as it would shut down moments later. It would not save all of my scans even after installing a 2GB memory card. The best scan I got was half an A4 page; with only 2cm long, distorted strips of scanned documents most of the time. I still can't figure out if the product was mal-functional or just mal-designed.
After 3 very frustrating days of trying over and over again (I thought it was my fault at the beginning), I returned the scanner for a refund.
For now, and until a similar operational scanner is available on the market, I got myself a Canon LIDE90. It is flatbed, but very small (26x38cms), light, and is powered via USB. So carrying it is like carrying a laptop. It is a more bulky solution, but it Works!
I would've given negative stars for this product if I could. Avoid like the plague!!
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