Canon LiDE 300 Colour Flatbed Scanner - Black

this time the scanner works well. just plugged in and it scanned with ease. great for a portable device at home for personal documents, inserting images into papers.if you want very high quality then you need to use an industrial scanner on full size copier at work or in a store.

Excellent scanner that is light in construction yet well constructed. It easy to use with excellent sharp scans, particularly good with photographic prints. Good value for money.Highly recommend

I'm a traditional artist. Bought as I needed a scanner and was on a budget. For a budget scanner it's great! Max size is A4 and scans up to 600 dpi which is good enough for what I needed it for. However I played around with scan settings and image formats, but whatever I did, the colours are very washed out in the scans. It's nothing a bit of saturation/hue adjustment can't fix, and my work uses a lot of bright colours so most people likely won't need to worry, and its fine for what I need. It picks up textures really well, however if you're using it to scan a lot of photographs/flat drawings etc consistently I'd bite the bullet and spend a little more. Very easy to use however does need a DVD drive to install.

Bought this from Amazon warehouse where it was advertised as having damage to the box. It had been opened but was in it's original packaging and appeared to be complete although the scanner had been unlocked.It comes with an installation CD but the software can be downloaded from the canon website.Setup was easy and scanning results were good. Scanning was not possible at the maximum advertised resolution (4800dpi), but this can be adjusted in the settings which I have not investigated yet.The scanner is powered though the USB port from the PC so no other power supply is required which reduces the cables you need. It is also provided with a stand so it can be mounted on it's side. I haven't tried this yet so can't confirm if it is easy to use like this. When used flat, it is a little larger than a sheet of A4 so doesn't take up too much space on your work top.Scanning is fast and it has the ability to scan multiple items at the same time (not tested yet) so should aid productivity when scanning a high workload.

I finally decided to digitalise all of our family documents- given that we are a big family, it was getting a bit much having several filing boxes, so I took a chance and invested in this Canon scanner.I'm genuinely quite impressed, the set up is super straight forward, you can follow the website link provided in the instructions and download the necessary programme, and that's it. You plug the cannon straight into your laptop and away you go. Scan speed isn't spectacularly fast, but it isn't super slow either. Meaning you can scan and upload into files fairly quickly. The scanner itself isn't particularly bulky or heavy either, so it can sit beside the laptop on the table and then be put away easily. This scanner is making uploading all of our family paperwork and then transferring to an external hard drive for storage very straightforward. I'm looking forward to having more space and less paperwork to wade through every time I need to find something.

The Canon LIDE 400 is my third of these type of scanner I have had over time starting with the Lide 110. Previous Lide models all worked reasonably well except from panel scanner buttons which stopped many years ago on MacOS, a software issue probably. My Lide 220 didn't survive the upgrade from from Ventura 13.6 to Sonoma 14.0 via should add though the same would have happened going to Windows 11and it's about 10 years in the market. I tried the usual things but it didn't really seem to budge so decided not to sweat the problem and just get a more up to date Canon. First, Amazon supplied wickedly fast arriving 7:43 AM less than 12 hours after ordering. The Lide 400 is the top of the range of Lide scanners, the 300 is about £20 cheaper but loses some document scanning options exchanging USB C for a micro B on the back of the cheaper model. I mf you are going portable I'd go for the 400 because those micro B are super delicate and only go in one way. I mainly use it for document scanning though quoted resolution and apparent facilities make it good for photography too I bet. For document scanning the Lide 400 claims about 8 seconds scanning time whereas my old Lide 210 10 seconds, the difference isn't readily apparent in practice so the cheaper Lide 300 would have done just as well for that document scanning. I am a Mac user so that is what I will concentrate on, there are loads of people out there who have reports with Windows.Box contents:- Scanner- USB A to C cable- Scanner stand- CD (see below)- DocumentationOnly thing to do is remove the tapes, other packaging and unlock the scanner head (bottom towards the front). Then hook up the cable and make Mac OS aware via Printers and scanners of the new unit detected via AirPrint although it's a scanner and no Wi-Fi involved. Effectively this means support is built into Mac OS itself so there is no driver from Canon.To save this being too long some bullet points:Good* Scanner is very nearly plug and play affair with Mac with respect to driver install. You just have to add the scanner from within the Settings app, it is an AirPrint device even thought it is not a printer.* IJ Scan utility is dark mode - hooray!* Very clear fast document scans at 300 DPI should be good for higher resolution photography work.* Scanner front panel buttons which actually do work, previous models buttons stopped working (some kind of software issue).Not so Good* The CD only contains a Windows installer, for Mac you will have reach Canon's driver pay to download any relevant companion software.* There seemed to be some teething issues with detection of the scanner, I managed to resolve by juggling connections of my 16 port USB hub to fix.* IJ Scan utility is very much more complicated than it was, not good for keyboard users. I accept though that this is a very niche thing. Most others want more buttons and functionality which it does provide.§* You cannot tweak the precise behaviour of the physical buttons on the scanner.