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Editor’s Choice Awards
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Versatile by design
Kodak i3000
Series Scanners
Editor’s Choice:
Business Info
The Kodak i3000 Series takes low
volume A3 production scanning
to the next level with integrated
flatbed models and faster
processing speeds.
Designed specifically for general
office scanning applications where speed,
image quality and versatility are required,
the KODAK i3000 Series desktop scanners
provide both rotary and flatbed scanning
in one small integrated unit. The four
models in the range – the KODAK i3200,
i3400, i3250 and i3450 – are able to
scan at up to A3 and come packed with
features to enhance scanning productivity
and efficiency.
With a footprint of just 43cm x 37cm,
these scanners are the most compact
low volume production scanners in the
company’s portfolio, designed to quickly
help streamline document management
processes in paper intensive industries
such as healthcare, law, banking and
insurance or a variety of paper dependent
departments including finance, sales,
operations and HR.
By optimising the interaction between
hardware, firmware and associated
drivers, the Kodak i3400 scanning speeds
have been increased from 80 to 90
pages per minute at up to 300 dpi, now
delivering a recommended daily volume
of 20,000 pages.
Hauke Fast, Kodak Alaris’ EAMER
Product Marketing Manager for
document imaging, said: “We’re
continually looking at how to improve
products to add benefit to customers. The
speed improvement delivers greater value
out of the box, enhances user productivity
and makes the i3400 even more cost
competitive compared to other products
in the low volume production scanning
category.”
Using the breakthrough design first seen
on the workgroup KODAK i2900 scanner,
Kodak Alaris has taken the concept of
combining both rotary and integrated A4
flatbed scanning and applied it to its A3
low volume production scanners with the
launch of two models, the KODAK i3250
and i3450.
With speeds of up to 50 pages per
minute at both 200 and 300 dpi, the duplex
Kodak i3250 scanner has a recommended
daily volume of 15,000 pages a day in
rotary mode, and comes with dual LED
illumination to ensure quick scanning starts
as well as exceptional image clarity and
colour stability. Its higher capacity brother,
the i3450, offers scanning speeds of up to
90 pages per minute and 20,000 pages
per day.
Able to take on virtually any scanning
challenge, both models feature an A4 book-
edge flatbed scanner within the unit to
allow users to easily scan the entire width
of a book page with full clarity, along with
magazines, passports and ID cards, torn and
stapled documents and so on.
“The overwhelming feedback from
customers is they love the small footprint
of a combined all-in-one solution so our
product development has very much
been driven by our desire to respond to
their needs in the low volume scanning
segment,” said Fast.
All KODAK i3000 Series Scanners have
a 250-sheet automatic document feeder
which allows operators to neatly and
efficiently scan mixed sized documents in
one batch without wasting time continually
reloading the hopper. In addition, a
selectable rear-exit paper path allows the
scanners to cope with thicker documents
or items up to 4.1 metres long, perfect for
digitising medical paperwork for example.
A post scan imprinter is available as an
accessory so that documents can be stamped
with a customisable reference, date or code
once processed.
The KODAK i3000 Series Scanners come
with the latest Capture Pro Limited Edition
imaging software bundled free of charge
to provide a feature rich easy-to-use batch
scanning solution. This includes barcode
reading, drag and drop OCR for improved
indexing, full text OCR to create searchable
PDFs, PDF/A support, batch separation, and
direct connectivity into Microsoft SharePoint
2013.
Capture Pro Limited Edition uses the
same platform as Capture Pro Software
v4.5, Kodak Alaris’ latest flagship scanning
software suite, which enables customers to
easily upgrade to the full version as they
wish without having to change the user
interface.
Key features include:
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Intelligent Document Protection, which
monitors the condition of paper being
scanned, ‘listening’ for the sound of paper
crumpling and stopping the scanner
automatically prior to jams occurring so
that precious documents aren’t damaged;
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Perfect Page technology that
automatically adjusts images without user
involvement to ensure best quality scans
every time, especially with mixed and low
contrast documents which are difficult to
scan; and
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Smart Touch functionality to start business
processes, scan to various predefined
locations, all without the need to even
open an application on a PC.
The KODAK i3000 Series Scanners are
compatible with TWAIN, ISIS-based scanning
applications and support a range of
operating systems including Windows XP,
Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 [32 and 64
bit], as well as Ubuntu [LINUX]. In addition,
the scanners are certified for Kofax VRS.
