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Pentax DSmobile 600 Scanner | 
| Brand: Pentax
Category: CE
List Price: $176.39
Buy New: $121.99
You Save: $54.40 (31%)
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Rating:  126 reviews
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 12.1 x 9.2 x 3.4
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: 206700-501
Model: 206700-501
UPC: 700908001313
EAN: 0700908001313
ASIN: B000LRRSVQ
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| | Only 12 ounces and measuring just 11 inches in length | | | User-friendly sheet-fed design | | | Optical Resolution: 600 dpi | | | Scanning Modes: 48-bit internally, outputs 24-bit true color; 8-bit gray scale; 1-bit bi-level B&W | | | Operating Systems: Windows Vista, XP, 2000, ME SE, Mac OSX 10.3 and later (download from www.pentaxtech.com) |
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Product Description
This powerful, compact, lightweight 600-dpi color scanner is combined with dynamic software to provide exceptional quality scanning and easy management of documents and photos. The DSmobile 600 is a direct replacement for the DSmobile USB but provides higher resolution, high-speed USB 2.0 interface, and additional software that will enhance and simplify your scanning needs.
Amazon.com Product Description
Weighing in at less than 12 ounces and measuring just 11 inches wide, the Pentax DSmobile lets you carry around all you need to scan everything from a business card to an 8.5 by 14 inch document. The scanner draws power from its USB interface so no clunky AC adapter is needed. Bring it along with you and you can instantly transmit a printed page via email, fax, or the web. The scanner has a hardware optical resolution of 300 dpi and the included OCR software automatically converts the document to editable text. The scanner uses a Contact Image Sensor (CIS) to achieve its smaller volume and lighter weight, and also requires less power consumption and lower maintenance than a traditional CCD. The DSmobile has few moving parts, which promotes high reliability and nearly maintenance-free operation. It consumes only 0.2 watt of power in standby mode and a maximum of 2.2 watts of power when scanning. The Pentax DSmobile 600 Scanner is compatible with Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. It is backed by a 1-year warranty. What's in the Box
DSmobile 600 scanner, leather case, 35-inch USB cable, user's manual, instllation guide, software CD, calibration card, and two 5x7-inch photo-scan sleeves.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 121 more reviews...
 Excellent Organizational Addition May 12, 2007
Buddie & Arthur (San Francisco, CA)
54 out of 55 found this review helpful
We use this scanner to digitally file our statements and bills. It scans quickly and quietly, without the need for an adapter and without taking much space on one's desk. It partners well with Adobe Acrobat -- we have Acrobat Professional which allows us to crop document edges if the original is less than 8.5 x 11 -- and I've seen no software compatability issues with Windows XP Home or XP Professional. It also allows you to continuously scan multiple page documents (as opposed to scanning each page as its own PDF file).
The one criticism that I have has to do with the software that accompanies the scanner. It does not apparently remember the last settings (e.g., resolution, color vs B&W, and destination directory) so you have to re-enter all of these each time you sit down to scan.
We haven't tried using it for any graphics purpose, but from what I can tell, it's not likely to perform like a flatbed scanner for this purpose, at least for serious graphics work. For a casual scan of a photo for a document or a webpage, it would probably work just fine.
Absolutely satisfied!
Mac OSX Tricks November 6, 2007
J. Huculak (Tulsa, OK)
24 out of 24 found this review helpful
I just got this scanner and am using it on OSX 10.5 (Leopard); it works beautifully. I found using the scanner with Photoshop to be slow, but I was amazed to find it also works with ironicsoftware's Yep! PDF management program. You can scan directly into PDF from Yep quickly and beautifully.
You will have to download the OSX drivers from Pentax's website (it is easy to navigate and find).
I am a scholar and have used this machine to scan in articles I can't find online. The DSmobile scans a full page (black and white) in under 10 seconds. If the page has been folded (not a crisp piece of paper), you will have to make sure guide the paper with your finger, otherwise, it may get hung-up in the scanner's rollers. Overall, this is an excellent product, and it works seamlessly with my Macbook Pro.
Pentax Mobile Scanner August 6, 2007
Murphy's (Tucson, AZ USA)
28 out of 29 found this review helpful
This little scanner is the answer for those that need a quick and convenient way to copy documents. Works exactly as it was advertised.
I'm a mortgage originator and occasionally meet my customer at a location other than my office. This is the easy alternative to a copy machine and works great when I copy driver's license (or other ID), bank statements, etc. It won't replace my larger (sheet feed) scanner for speed, but speed is okay for small jobs, and the quality is great.
Worth the Money June 8, 2007
A. L. Meszaros
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
I use it with my laptop to scan mainly letter sized documents, to include old mimeograph and spirit duplicator (remember the purple print?)pages and it works just as well as my flatbed scanner. I use the B&W setting for mimeo and have to switch to color for the purple print. Super convenient and easy to use if you read and follow the instructions.
Worth it even if you have another scanner. Great for Mac April 20, 2008
T. E. Rumbaugh (Irvine, CA USA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I have hundreds of articles, reviews, and other articles that rip out of magazines for later use. I have kept them categorized in file folders but I'm tired of the space they consume. We already have a flatbed scanner so I started scanning some of them to PDF. It was not even worth the hassle. I looked at a highly rated scanner that has a document feeder and has a version especially made for the Mac, but it is $500. No way.
Having looked at all of the less expensive scanning options I went with the DSmobile 600. All I can say is, fantastic. I had read all of the reviews from Mac users and understood that you need to get the driver from the Pentax site. It was that simple. In fact, the CD that comes with the unit is essentially worthless for Mac users. Just ensure you have some image capturing software, install the Mac driver from the site, hook up the scanner, select the scanner in your image capturing software, and start feeding the scanner.
You can select the scanning quality, whether you want black/white or color, and then it's just a matter of working out what is best for your intended use. There is an OCR option which I don't use but tried it once and the results were rather impressive, but the page I scanned was mostly text so that is kind of expected. Sometimes it takes a little bit of work to get the page to actually feed into the scanner and sometimes they get a little mis-aligned, but with it being such a quick process it wasn't frustrating to redo it. And that didn't happen that often. Otherwise, the feeds are quick and doing multi-page articles is painless.
I use Yep! to manage and scan PDFs and it worked flawlessly in the set-up of the TWAIN driver, finding the scanner, and then giving great options for converting the scanned images into PDFs. With Yep! you can also assign your own metatags which are then easily searchable either in Yep! or using Spotlight. A very powerful combination. With the cost of hard drive storage so cheap nowadays, I just have all of the PDFs going to one folder and it will be more than enough for my entire collection for extremely efficient searching and perusal over the years. I consider the DSmobile and Yep! to be the perfect solution to my needs.
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