Fujitsu Scansnap Ix1600 Touch Screen Scanner

Fujitsu Scansnap Ix1600 Touch Screen Scanner

We have these at work. I like them so much I bought this model for myself at home. Not much but to like.

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Why is it listed as a Fujitsu but the image shows Ricoh on the left side of the cover?

Fujitsu licensed them from Ricoh. I don’t think there’s anything really left of Fujitsu at this point so Ricoh is now putting them out on their own.
Same quality product.

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What exactly do you use this to do over at your work? Trying to justify the price being over $300 and its not even a new unit at that. Thanks for your time

I work on the new laptops that come in at work, so I scan POs that I sign for property control after they’ve been received and had asset tags placed on them a few times a week.
Since it has auto feed and duplex, you don’t have to mess with the lid like on a flat bed and flipping the paper to get the other side. Then putting a new sheet in …
And with the carrier sheet, you can scan odd shaped papers like news articles or folder booklet type material.
It’s late so I hope I’m making sense.

Until retirement in April, I worked at a driver license office. The Fujitsu/Ricoh scanners we had were very, very fast. We could scan (simultaneously) front and back on 10 or 20 documents in the time it takes to tell about it. Scan quality was on par with any larger or flat bed scanners I used over the years. The only downside is the rubber on the feeders would become soft and gooey over time. Fujitsu has a replacement kit that solves that problem. They would scan pretty much any size document from credit and ID cards to legal size paper and light cardboard. Couldn’t scan passport booklets or some of the very large birth or marriage certificates (think Louisiana and New Mexico). I worked there for over 10 years and most were rather long lasting machines if properly maintained.

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First off: Congrats on the retirement! Second off: What was it like working in a Drivers License office? Were people generally decent or crummy?