Canon CanoScan FB620P Flatbed Scanner

Pros: Only $35, Easy to Install, Decent scanning results
Cons: Colours somewhat faded, not for professional use

I needed a scanner, not to do any professional work, just to scan some pictures. I didn’t have much money to spend. I was lucky to find this scanner for $35 in a closeout sale.

Paying $35, my expectations were rather low. The scanner comes...

Pros: Nice job, great cost, small & compact
Cons: Slow, Three manuels to read

I had wanted a scanner for quite awhile to share photo's of my children with family via the Internet. Then last summer my grandmother passed away (on my birthday no less...). While amazingly rude and selfish people were arguing over her...

Pros: scans photos well. Compact and attractive. Scans relatively quickly. Quiet
Cons: Fixed hinge lid can be restricting. Lighter photos sometimes a bit grainy. Poor scanning of objects.

Waaaaaaay back in the primitive pre-digital camera days, yours truly was faced with a bit of a dilemma. I needed a scanner and I needed one fast. Not only did I have a lot of photographs which I would have liked to scan for posterity, I felt that a...

Pros: simple user interface, great for personal use, low price
Cons: glitches on occasion, great for documents but poor for objects

My wife picked up the FB 620P on clearance at Comp USA for around $79.99. It was a pricy expenditure, but I had been pining for a scanner for months, so I was hardly upset.

The scanner was easy to set up and get running, which is always a...

Pros: The 620P can be found for dirt cheap! as low as $29, small footprint secondary to LIDE technology, adequate for everyday scanning chores and web pages
Cons: only adequate scanning, best at low resolutions, First generation LIDE technology

The CanoScan 620 series scanners is one of the lowest cost scanners on the market today. I was one of the first to pick up the 620P series and was very impressed by the small footprint (you could hang the scanner on the wall and still scan single...

Pros: price, size, ease of use
Cons: none

What does a diaper genie and a flat bed scanner have in common? They are both MUST HAVES for parents of new babies! We have had the Canon Canoscan 620p for about two months. Goodbye Mr. Postman - grandma gets her pictures by email now!

As you...

Pros: Easy to use, quality image output
Cons: Some advanced applications can be tricky

I would recommend the Canon FB 620P for anyone who has never used or has limited experience with flatbed scanners.

This product is used for both my professional and personal scanning needs. Professionally, the scanner is used to help me...

Pros: Low Price.
Cons: None Yet.

Do you want a bulky, hard to use, confusing, poor resolution scanner? You probably don't. Well then this may be the scanner for you.

The CanoScan FB-620P may even be one of the easiest scanners to use. Once you plug it into the parallel port...

Pros: Excellent no-hassle scans, high resolution, One-pass full-color scans, Good software, Parallel cable included.
Cons: NONE.

I remember when I bought my first scanner, many many moons ago.. about 6 years ago to be precise. It was a $600 SCSI scanner with 300x600 DPI, with good output, slow scanning process, but it was where technology was.

I moved, and the scanner...

Pros: Small footprint, clean scans, good tools
Cons: None

I went to my area computer and electronics "superstore" a few months ago, looking to pick up a cheap scanner. The advertisement listed one at an amazing $14 after rebate, so off I went. Of course, they were out. But I still needed a scanner,...

Pros: The 620P can be found for dirt cheap! as low as $49, small footprint secondary to LIDE technology
Cons: only adequate scanning, best at low resolutions, LIDE technology

The CanoScan 620 series scanners. I was one of the first to pick up the 620P series and was very impressed by the small footprint (you could hang the scanner on the wall and still scan single pages.) a speediness of the scanner. It was only $99 at that...

Pros: Easy Setup; Good Price; Nice Scans.
Cons: Minor Problems.

UPDATE: [05/08/02]
This is just an update on the scanner. One thing that makes it much better! For 32-bit windows, the standard drivers often have a hard time working. There are new updated drivers I found! It increases its ability to be used...

Pros: Cheap, small,
Cons: difficult to trouble shoot, limited helpful info available on support website

We purchased the CanoScan 620p back in 1998 as a second scanner. (The first is an HP Photo Smart.) We didn't want to spend a lot more money, we needed a flat bed format for scanning medical diagrams and, we planned to install the this scanner on my...

Pros: Image Quality, Compact.
Cons: A bit slow.

This scanner is nice and compact and
scans lovely photos. I probably use this scanner a
fair bit. Although it is a little slow
and it had some conflict with my Canon printer
which caused my printer to slow down. Don't know why.
...

Pros: Compact, cheap, reasonable scans, easy to set up
Cons: Slow, LED technology very sensitive to wrinkles. Did i say it was slow?

I do not know where the "estimated price" of $99 comes from, and I'll never understand computer marketing in America. I bought this scanner one holiday weekend for $50, with a $30 mail in rebate (which arrived a few weeks later). For the price it's been...