Document scanners - wow

[volcs0]

I was getting a fax at the enormous copier / fax machine near my office when I spied one of the functions on the display "scan to PC." It took about 10 minutes of wrangling, but I got it to connect to my Mac via SMB. I just dropped a stack of documents on there, and before I got back to my seat, a PDF was waiting in the folder on my computer. I'm sure this is old news to most, but this rather obviates the need for the Canon flatbed sitting here on my desk...

[cbelt3]

Yes, those workgroup multifunction devices are very nice. I can drop a ginormous stack right on it and it emails to me.

And yet we STILL refuse to go 'paperless'.

[Acer]

Does it do color? We have this arrangement, too (and it's great), but our central copier won't scan in color, so we need a flat bed kept handy.

[mikebw]

Ours will scan and email a PDF to anyone within our domain.

[volcs0]

Acer wrote:
Does it do color? We have this arrangement, too (and it's great), but our central copier won't scan in color, so we need a flat bed kept handy.

Yes color, any size, PDF/jpeg/tiff, etc. - really convenient. Emails too. Very cool.

[AAA]

some of ours do color. scanning as well as printing. depends on how much you pony-up

[SDGuy]

cbelt3 wrote:
...And yet we STILL refuse to go 'paperless'.

I REFUSE to go paperless, especially on this holiest of holy days...it could get quite unpleasant going paperless...

[ztirffritz]

I have MultiFunction scanner/fax/copier/printer workstations through out my building. Very nice. Much easier to manage costs, repairs, and saves space on the desktop. I also have a fax server. It has 4 POTS lines coming into it that are connected to our PBX. Each user has a DID number assigned to them for their fax#. When a call comes in the PBX forwards the call to the fax server. The fax server looks up the number and connects it to the user's email, receives the fax, converts it to a PDF and emails it. It will do the opposite also. Users send an email with a document attached to faxnumber@faxserver and it receives it, converts it to a fax, attaches a cover sheet with the company logo and the user's contact info and sends it out, then sends a confirmation email to the user saying it failed/succeeded. That has been VERY useful.

[ztirffritz]

I also just learned last night that my home printer, an HP 1320 does double sided printing. I had no idea. I saw the option on the print options checked it and all of a sudden I'm saving 50% of my paper!. It prints, sucks the paper back in and spits it out again.

[volcs0]

ztirffritz wrote:
I have MultiFunction scanner/fax/copier/printer workstations through out my building. Very nice. Much easier to manage costs, repairs, and saves space on the desktop. I also have a fax server. It has 4 POTS lines coming into it that are connected to our PBX. Each user has a DID number assigned to them for their fax#. When a call comes in the PBX forwards the call to the fax server. The fax server looks up the number and connects it to the user's email, receives the fax, converts it to a PDF and emails it. It will do the opposite also. Users send an email with a document attached to faxnumber@faxserver and it receives it, converts it to a fax, attaches a cover sheet with the company logo and the user's contact info and sends it out, then sends a confirmation email to the user saying it failed/succeeded. That has been VERY useful.

But how is the individual user specified in the fax number? Or does each user have their own separate fax number?