Brother Printer ADS2700W - Wi-Fi

The Brother ADS-2700W wireless, high-speed duplex desktop color scanner is ideal for small workgroups, sole practitioners, or home office professionals with simple workflow applications that need fast, reliable scanning. This high-speed desktop document scanner is a plug-and-play solution allowing you to scan and retrieve files without installing software. It offers single-pass duplex scanning of black & white and color documents at speeds up to 35 pages per minute(2). The ADS-2700W is lightweight and compact, which saves desktop space, making it perfect for small offices or home offices. The ADS-2700W offers versatile connectivity options by featuring built-in wireless, fast Ethernet, and the option to connect locally to a single computer via high-speed USB 2.0. A 2.8″ color touchscreen display offers one-touch scanning to preset destinations, settings management, and auto start scan, which lets you simply drop paper into the feeder to automatically initiate scanning to a predefined profile. A 50-sheet-capacity auto document feeder with additional page-continuous scanning handles multiple media types and paper sizes, such as legal, long paper, business and plastic ID cards, receipts, and photos. The Brother ADS-2700W offers multiple “scan-to” destinations, such as file, image, OCR, email, network, FTP, mobile devices(3), USB flash memory drive(4), and more. An image-optimization program allows users to enhance scans with automatic color detection, image rotation, background removal, text enhancement, color drop-out features, and more. (1)SANE driver available for download from Brother Solutions Center. Visit manufacturer’s website for details. (2)Color and black/white scan speed, LTR at 300dpi. See manufacturer’s website for details. (3)Requires connection to a wireless network. See manufacturer’s website for details, availability, and mobile device compatibility. (4)USB flash memory drive not included. Review: Outstanding product, quality, and value - This is an amazing product, and what I've become accustomed to from Brother. The machine is a workhorse - I bought this product 3+ years ago, as part of digitizing my world. I had boxes and boxes of documents, receipts, and photos to scan. The scan time is fast, scans both sides, great resolution, directly into PDF format or JPG for photos, as one continuous file or a separate file for each page being scanned, into your chosen folder location on your PC or on to a thumbdrive. Save profiles for diff doc settings (output format, resolution, Substantial duty cycle - I was scanning 2-3,000+ pages per day consistently without issue or jamming. Connects to wireless network easily. Machine is small and compact, which makes it convenient to access on the corner of my desk. My only issue is the LCD display options - could be better designed to make setting up and accessing profiles easier - but even on just this feature, I rate it 4 out of 5 stars. Finally, the price makes it an incredible value. Given the volume of scanning that I was doing, I fully anticipated that I would need to replace this in the first year... but it is still going strong. While my volume of scanning today is down to modest level of activity, the fact that it is so convenient means I scan everything the moment I touch it - no more paper stacks. Review: A very well designed device - Use case: Scanning handwritten letters (~1 page at a time), handwritten homework assignments (up to 40+ pages at a time), and old documents (~5 pages at a time). Features I use: WiFi, Scanning from the computer, OCR, PDF High Compression Features I do not use: TWAIN, mobile scanning, wired ethernet connection Setup: Setup is easy and painless. Unit has few buttons, which I love. Menu navigation is intuitive and uncluttered. WiFi connection worked on the first try. Two thumbs up! Scanning on the computer: Usually with my printers and scanners I go to the manufacturer's site and only download the drivers. I do not download utilities or software packages because they tend to be bloat (Ahem, Canon and HP). But after installing Brother's drivers and initiating scan-to-computer via the scanner touchscreen, I realized that options like pdf file size/compression, OCR, and TWAIN were missing. Files sizes also came out quite large - too large. I was thinking of returning the unit, but decided to give Brother support a chance because the unit was just so well made and so nice to use. In less than 2 business days, Brother sent me a response explaining that the features I couldn't find (pdf file size/compression, OCR, and TWAIN) were actually in the Brother iPrint&Scan software utility. I downloaded the utility from the Mac App Store, connected my scanner, and still didn't find any of the features in scan options! So I ran a scan anyway and found out that the options are all available AFTER you scan. PDF file output size/compression, OCR, and TWAIN were all there! I tried OCR and the various file size outputs at 300 DPI and they worked as expected. Well, that is aside from the High Compression option, which sometimes caused parts of the image to be in focus and others to be blurry. I'll be contacting Brother about that for a future software fix. About 2 weeks after initial setup the scanner would take an additional 10-15 seconds or so after cold boot up to be detected by my computer, but it never failed to connect. It's usually about 10 seconds, but sometimes it's a little faster and other times it's a little slower. The software saves the files a bit slow. It can take up to a minute to save files. That may be because I am running a dual-core processor Mac, which takes longer to process the file compression and OCR in the background. Your mileage my vary. Again, I'm not a business user, so I can wait. Conclusion: If you are a casual user who has outgrown your existing flatbed printer scanner or is looking to upgrade from an old one, the 2700W is an excellent choice. In the month that I've had it I've already scanned more than 200 pages and it's never let me down, lost connection, or failed to scan properly. Brother customer support is also excellent and timely. The unit is also well-built and the plastic and finish on the plastic is of a very nice quality. I highly recommend it.