The Canon
DR-9080C Scanner

Only Canon could create one of the fastest desktop color scanners and then say that high-speed, or even high accuracy, doesn’t begin to tell the story. Forget everything you know about conventional production scanners and head straight for the Canon DR-9080C, where high-volume scanning capabilities suddenly have greater reach than ever before. Redefining price/performance, the DR-9080C is a standout for affordability, but even more, it finally brings high speed, color, production-level scanning within reach of budgets that never could have justified it before. By satisfying the criteria for image quality, easy handling, and optimized throughput, it easily meets the needs of dedicated scanning applications—exactly what a high end production scanner is expected to do. But it’s how it can do so much, so cost-effectively, that’s the real story here, the one that makes the Canon DR-9080C such an unprecedented value.

Image quality produced by the DR-9080C is quite spectacular, judging by the accuracy of its output.

Canon’s own Contact Image Sensors, with a unique dual light source, capture potentially critical information such as highlighting, color coding, stampings, watermarks, and more, actually improving OCR rates.

The DR-9080C can work virtually independently, thanks to its hardworking Automatic Document Feeder that reduces operator intervention. It self-adjusts automatically to each document in a mixed-size batch. No nudging, re-positioning, or straightening required. Perform multiple tasks with a single pass. The DR-9080C has on-board JPEG compression and recognition of text orientation for correct image rotation. It even includes both hardware and software deskewing capabilities as part of its impressive list of input/output options. About the only shifting you may want to do is in your expectations.

Along with industry-standard interfaces and drivers, the Canon DR-9080C also comes bundled with Canon’s Capture Perfect 2.0 scanning software. A powerful plug-and-play application, it provides an easy-to-use scanning interface and a choice of output formats for compatibility with popular imaging systems.

Capture Perfect makes it easy to save images in PDF format, scan-to-E-mail, and provides a variety of powerful scanning tools. Several available options such as an Imprinter, Endorser, and Barcode Software Module offer full support for document tracking as well.

Canon’s patented on-board Staple Detection feature acts like a sixth sense. It automatically stops the scanning process whenever it detects an un-removed staple that could damage the device, or require jam clearing or exception scanning, that would negatively affect throughput rates. Undetected, such errors could compromise the document, or worse, cause the loss of critical information. The versatile Ultrasonic Multifeed Detector, Canon’s most sensitive detection system ever, employs a patented multiple-sensing technique to more accurately monitor documents for double feeding. Upon detection of a potential overlap or double-feed, scanning is suspended while an Error Alert is sent to the operator for immediate correction.