HP ScanJet 7650 Flatbed Scanner with Auto Document Feeder (L1940A#B1H)

Product Description

Get fast, high-quality unattended scanning at up to 12 ppm with built-in 50-sheet, duplexing auto document feeder. See preview scans in about 6 seconds with fast warm-up. ISIS driver included for easy integration into document management solutions.

Customer Reviews:

Do Not Recommend.......2007-08-12

Problems:

1. Will not scan document information in light blue colors.
2. Sometimes cuts off lower 1/4th of the document.
3. Documents sometimes jam in the feeder and are difficult to remove/pull out. (When that happens, I sometimes have to completely shut down my computer and restart.)

I do not recommend this scanner.

If you need to scan just documents, buy a Xerox scanner.
Our office also has a Xerox Documate 250 vertical feeder scanner that is superior to the HP Scanjet.Feeding is much easier and documents rarely jam. If they do, they are easier to pull out.

One advanced feature that the HP Scanjet 7650 has is the ability to scan 35mm negatives. I used this feature and it works. The drawback is that it takes a long time. It's a lot easier just to take the negatives to a nearby photo lab (Walmart and CVS Pharmacy are near me) and have the technician transfer the negatives (which convert to pictures) onto a CD-ROM for around $7.00. (Something like 144 pictures can be put on a CD-ROM.)

Careful with HP7650 Scanner and USB.......2007-05-13

This scanner works great now. It only took two hours to figure out that the reason it would not work right is that I had a 20ft USB Cable. This scanner is very particular about cable and cable length so if you have trouble getting it running check to make sure your cable is no more than 16ft long (this is what they support). Also it does not seem to work well from the HP Director so we use the buttons on the front of the scanner. It has been working well otherwise and the ADF seems to hum along pretty well.

ADF failure.......2007-01-14

It's true that machines of the same model can perform differently, but I'm with the "thumbs-down" group. I bought this to PDF my paper files and found in the first 30 minutes that the document feeder was nearly 100% consistent in its inability to throughput multiple pages. It either jammed or fired through pages without scanning virtually every time. That's with the included software and, as above, Adobe Acrobat 7.0. I returned it.

Doesn't completely work with Acrobat.......2006-06-10

I got this to help me scan paper documents to save as pdfs to de-paper my office. Except for some difficulties clearing the rare paper jams, it seems to be fine mechanically.

I would be satisfied except I haven't been able to make it play nice with Acrobat v. 7 for Windows XP SP2. The HP-supplied software will produce pdfs, but of generally poor quality compared to what the scanner can do driven from Acrobat. The problem is trying to get a scan of both sides of the paper from the ADF. The recommended TWAIN driver (the "Document" TWAIN) that comes with it simply won't do this from Acrobat, but it works fine for single-sided scans. Using the other TWAIN driver will scan both sides, but it automatically crops out chunks of some pages apparently at random, so you have to correct the scanning area for each page - and it won't let you control the scanner parameters like you should be able to. The WIA driver won't do both sides at all, and has odd defaults on top of that.

So if you are scanning front sides only with Acrobat, you can make this scanner work from Acrobat, but otherwise, you are in for a hassle. Maybe there is some other driver that would work, but I haven't been able to find it yet.

Awesome scanner once you get the issues worked out.......2006-03-11

I agree that I did have some problems with paper jams in the ADF. But then I noticed that it seemed to mostly happen with smaller width paper (11" long, but less than 8.5" wide) and legal size documents when trying to duplex. Well, then I read the manual (duh!) and it clearly states that the scanner is not set up to duplex legal size documents or unusual sized paper. So I thought that was a problem.

But I am trying to scan all my documents into electronic form and so the scanner is only part of the solution -- electronic document management software is the other part. I got PaperPort Professional 10, set it up with the ISIS driver (the TWAIN driver is not so good) using the PaperPort scanner setup utility running all scanner tests -- and it started working perfectly! The key with legal and odd size documents is not to duplex! Scan one side with the ADF then turn the documents over, put them back in the feeder and let PaperPort do the collation. It works GREAT!

This is EXACTLY the solution I have been looking for since I started scanning in all my paper documents about 5 years and many failed hardware/software solutions ago.

I am using none of the software that came with the scanner, just downloaded the latest drivers directly from the HP website.

The only issue I have noticed (which could explain why some people think the ADF is "broken") is that when a jam occurs (which hasn't happened since I started doing things using my new procedure) is that the ADF gets into a wierd state where it thinks that there is no paper in it even though there paper there. The fix: unplug/plug in (not turn off) the scanner and let it reinitialize. There are rollers in the ADF which get stuck in the down position during a jam that don't ever seem to reset unless you power cycle it (and you can't really turn off the scanner with the power switch -- it just puts it into standby mode).

HP ScanJet 7650 Document Flatbed Scanner

Average customer rating:

Great scans when it works right

HP ScanJet 7650 Document Flatbed Scanner

Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

Office Electronics | Refurbished & Used | Special Features | Electronics Features | Electronics
Product Features:

Fast document scanning
Professional and versatile
Office document management
Intuitive and productive

ASIN: B00080FR3M

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Customer Reviews:

Great scans when it works right.......2007-08-27

I installed all the software provided, but neither of the two computers I tried it on (one a Vista, the other an XP) recognized the scanner. I surfed HP and found new driver software (dated July 2007), which then worked well. But the real annoyance was the ADF. Absolutely EVERY time I tried the ADF with a clean sheet of plain paper it did not make it through. 100% on the jams! Each time I unjammed it, I had to restart the computer. When scanning from the flatbed platen, there were no problems, and the speed and quality of scans was very good. The on-screen controls are easy and straightforward. Clearly some serious bugs here, but not sure if the driver problem is HP or MS. If it was not an ADF machine, I'd probably be quite happy with it now. Having paid a premium for an ADF device, the mechanical problems are simply unacceptable.

HP ScanJet 7650 Document Flatbed Scanner - Document scanner - Legal - 2400 dpi x 2400 dpi - ADF ( 50 sheets ) - Hi-Speed USB

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HP ScanJet 7650 Document Flatbed Scanner - Document scanner - Legal - 2400 dpi x 2400 dpi - ADF ( 50 sheets ) - Hi-Speed USB

Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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ASIN: B000OVU92O

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HP ScanJet 7650 Document Flatbed Scanner - Document scanner - 2400 dpi x 2400 dpi - ADF ( 50 sheets ) - Hi-Speed USB

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HP ScanJet 7650 Document Flatbed Scanner - Document scanner - 2400 dpi x 2400 dpi - ADF ( 50 sheets ) - Hi-Speed USB

Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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