Scanner Brands

canner manufacturers usually have their own name attached to this technique. For example, Epson, Nikon, Microtek and others use Digital ICE developed by Kodak, while Canon uses its own FARE (Film Automatic Retouching and Enhancement) system.
The scanning or digitization of paper documents for storage is quite different from the scanning of pictures for reproduction though it uses some of the same technology. While document scanning can be done on general-purpose office scanners, in major operations it is performed on dedicated, specialized scanners, manufactured by companies like Canon, Fujitsu, Kodak, and others.

Scanner Brands are : Antec, APC, Bell & Howell, Canon, Epson, Fujitsu, HP, Informatics, Kodak, Kofax, Microtek, Minolta, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Ricoh, Smartdisk, Socket Communication, Sony, Visioneer, Xerox.

Canon Scanner

Old family snapshots, personal documents, whatever scanning or copying, the Canon line of Photo Scanners are easy to use. Get photos scanned and ready for email in a snap.

Canon's Color Image Scanners quickly produce superb scans from photos, documents, magazines, slides and negatives. Delivers exceptional color resolution.

Canon's scanner cartridge is a powerful imaging tool that performs two tasks in the space of one. Just replace the ink cartridge with the scanner cartridge. You've got an instant color sheet fed scanner.

Canon Film and Negetive Scanners : Easy Scanning for Sharing Photos and Film. The scanner for everyone.

Canon Photo Scanner: Compact and Elegant Style. Quality Scans. High-quality scanning has never been simpler. Four easy buttons automate the entire process, so it's a snap to scan, copy and create e-mail attachments or PDFs. Built-in retouching technology can further enhance your final images and the Advanced Z-Lid expansion top lifts approximately 1-inch vertically and lets you produce clear, complete scans even of thick originals such as notebooks. One cable provides both power and a USB 2.0 Hi-Speed1 data connection and the included stand lets you position the scanner vertically to save desk space.

Superb Scans: Produce scans with spectacular resolution of up to 2400 x 4800 color dpi.

Rich, vivid color: 48-bit color depth yields over 281 trillion possible colors.

Faster data: The USB 2.0 interface enables the fastest possible image transfers and scanning speeds.1

Copy / scan thick originals: You can even copy or scan thick items that do not lie flat on the platen.

Incredible resolution: The included software greatly enhances resolution, up to an amazing 19,200 color dpi.

Less Wires: One convenient cable to your computer provides both a USB connection and power.

Easy scanning: Large function buttons automate the scanning process select the use for the image and it's ready in seconds.

HP Scanner

The Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ), commonly known as HP, is one of the world's largest information technology corporations. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States, it has a global presence in the fields of computing, printing, and digital imaging, and also provides software and services.

HP has a successful line of printers, scanners, digital cameras, calculators, PDAs, servers, workstations, and home-small business computers.

Imaging and printing
According to HP's 2005 U.S. SEC 10-K filing, HP's Imaging and Printing Group is "the leading imaging and printing systems provider in the world for printer hardware, printing supplies and scanning devices, providing solutions across customer segments from individual consumers to small and medium businesses to large enterprises."

Epson Scanner

Seiko Epson Corporation or Epson, is a Japanese company and one of the world's largest manufacturers of inkjet, dot matrix and laser printers, scanners, timepieces (through their famous Seiko division), desktop computers, business, multimedia and home theatre projectors, large home theatre televisions, robots and industrial automation equipment, point of sale docket printers and cash registers, laptops, integrated circuits, LCD components and other associated electronic components.

Microtek Scanner

Microtek International Inc. is a Taiwan-based manufacturer of digital imaging products and other consumer electronics. Among its current product line are plasma TVs, LCD flat panel monitors, LCD and DLP projectors, and digital cameras as well as their flagship line of affordable scanners that range from Flatbeds to document imaging scanners.

Microtek's products are used in a broad range of applications and environments -- from small office, home office, corporate, education and government settings to high-end professional publishing, printing and pre-press service providers.

Throughout the 20-year history of the digital imaging industry, Microtek has pioneered several first-to-market scanning products. To date, Microtek holds the record for a number of world-firsts in the scanner industry. These product milestones include:

First affordable black and white scanner equipped w/complete set of desktop publishing tools
First grayscale image scanner
First affordable film scanner
First affordable color scanner
First 36-bit color flatbed scanner
First to introduce emulsion-direct scanning technology or E.D.I.T. for glassless film scanning
First stand-alone scanning appliance
First bundled crafting kit
First flatbed scanner to incorporate Fast USB (USB 2.0)
First flatbed scanner with integrated Digital ICE technology for photo prints

Fujitsu Scanner

Fujitsu is a Japanese company specializing in semiconductors, computers (supercomputers, personal computers, servers), telecommunications, and services, and is headquartered in Tokyo.

These models deliver speed, image quality, and advanced paper handling, as well as true ease of integration and compatibility with more than 200 imaging applications. Fujitsu is the price/performance leader with such standard features as built-in automatic document feeders for rapid, unattended scanning of multiple documents, SCSI-II or USB interfaces, and on most workgroup scanners, flatbeds for books, bound reports, or fragile originals.

Some scanners are USB 1.2 and some are USB 2.0. That is the interface, the way the scanner "talks" to the PC to pass the scanned images to it. You must have a matched port to the scanner in USB 2.0 on high speed scanners. This means you need a USB 2.0 port on your PC to talk at the rated speed of a USB 2.0 ported scanner. Otherwise the scanner may "talk" too fast to the PC for it to pass through the images.