By Desire Athow
Introduction and design
There was a time when scanners were one of the most sought-after peripherals when you bought a new computer. Back then, flatbed and handheld models from the likes of Logitech or Microtek vied for your custom.
That was before someone in an engineering team had the bright idea to merge a scanner and a printer to launch the first all-in-one printer, which triggered the slow death of standalone scanners.
So much so, the sad truth is that you can end up paying more than twice the amount for the latter compared to the former.
However, if there is a market where printer-less scanners thrive, it is the B2B market where dreams of a paperless environment have all but vanished.
With reams of archived documents, magazines and books still taking precious space on physical shelves and in danger of slowly disintegrating (or being eaten by termites and bookworms), there’s potentially hundreds of terabytes of data waiting to be digitised.
That is the market that Brother’s ImageCenter ADS-3600W, priced around the £600 mark (it retails for $800 in the US, which is about AU$1140), is trying to capture. Billed …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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