Canon CanoScan 8600F, 4800x9600-dpi, Photo Scanner

This powerful scanner delivers spectacular results, with color dpi resolution of 4800 x 9600 (max.). Plus, built-in FARE Level 3 retouching technology helps correct for dust and scratches on your originals, revives faded images and even brightens faces and reduces graininess. Seven easy buttons automate the scanning process, so it's simple to scan, copy and create e-mails and multi-page PDFs. To save time, you can batch-scan up to 12 negative frames or 4 slides, either 35mm or medium format.

 

Features

Impeccable quality at high speed

• Stunning 4800 x 9600 dpi resolution
• Flawless images, thanks to FARE Level 3 that eliminates dust and scratches and corrects backlight
• CCD sensor for clarity and vibrance
• USB 2.0 interface for fast transfers

Convert films to digital format

• Create your own greeting cards or photo reprints
• Digitize 12 frames of positive or negative film at a time; or
• 20mm format film in filmstrips; or
• 4 frames of mounted slides

Scans that are better than the originals

• CanoScan toolbox with ScanGear software to touch up images
• Get rid of shadows cast by book gutters with Gutter Shadow Correction
• Revive images that have faded over time with Fading Correction
• Reduce graininess with Grain Correction

Convenience at a touch

• 7 EZ buttons to simplify frequently-used functions
• Create and manage PDF documents with 4 PDF buttons
• Copy, photo/film and email with one-touch buttons

Produce PDFs promptly

• Faster creation of multi-page PDFs than ever before at approximately 2 seconds per page
• Convert scanned pages to PDF format even as subsequent pages are being scanned
• Reduce time needed to process and compile multi-page PDF files

Automatic rotation of documents

• Placement of documents is automatically detected
• Rotated 90 or 180 degrees if necessary