Brother International Corporation, an industry leader in document and print solutions, has officially announced the launch of a new series for compact desktop scanners. Specifically designed to create more efficient and digitized workflows for working professionals and everyday consumers, these new desktop scanners bring forth fast scan speeds, flexible connectivity options, and easy-to-use bundled software. Talk about the stated series on a slightly deeper level, it includes ADS-1800W, a desktop scanner offering business applications for small business owners with more image/photo editing capabilities. Alongside these capabilities, the device is reportedly equipped with a 2.8″ color touchscreen that allows users to create preset scanning destinations, develop tailored shortcuts, manage settings, and save directly to cloud services, computers, email, or flash drives. The device also boasts wireless connectivity and compatibility with the Brother Mobile Connect App. At launch, ADS-1800W is available for a price of $279.99. Next up, we have ADS-1300. This one is built to serve basic scanning needs, such as photos, memorabilia, tax receipts, and personal documents. In that regard, though, the device allows users to quickly scan single pages up to 197″ long directly to their computer, USB flash drive, or to the cloud. The price for ADS-1300 is set at $219.99. Then, there is ADS-1350W, a scanner which again boasts wireless connectivity and compatibility with the Brother Mobile Connect App so to let the user efficiently scan, store, and send assets from the home or office through a Wi-Fi connection.
“At Brother, we continue to prioritize customer needs and organization in and out of the office,” said Mark Hoffman, Director of Marketing and Product Development at Brother International Corporation. “Whether you’re an everyday scanner user who wants to archive and digitize your personal life or a business owner who wants to quickly access critical documents as you travel between your work and home office, our refreshed lineup of portable desktop scanners provides the hardware and software to cater to a variety of consumers’ unique needs across work and home.”
Having referred to the devices, we now must turn our attention towards the software bundles integrated into them for an optimal operation. For instance, the new series will have Brother iPrint&Scan for Windows and Mac® to ensure seamless scanning, saving, organization, and sharing of multiple assets via a single database. Next up, there is Kofax PaperPort™ 14SE with OCR for Windows, which makes it possible for users to access better control of their PDFs, including the ability to annotate documents, enhance images, create readable documents, and make document searching simpler. Moving on to Presto! Bizcard for Windows and Mac, it allows for business card scanning, editing, and management application that automatically saves both an image and data on scanned business cards to a searchable database. Joining the same is a Brother BR-Receipts V3. This one is, at heart, one receipt management software meant to help users scan and store receipts in a centralized location. Among other software bundles, we have ImageFolio for Windows and Mac®, which leverages its capabilities as a multimedia image-processing program to provide users with a complete set of drawing and painting tools, all done to enhance, correct, and revise images.
Beyond software bundles, the new desktop scanners also share features like single-pass double-sided scanning, scan speeds upto 30ppm with image quality up to 600 x 600 dpi, and a 20-page automatic document feeder for quick scanning to handle large jobs. Furthermore, they also have a built-in card slot for seamlessly scanning business cards, plastic ID badges, and even credit cards.
