OPEN BOX - RICOH fi-8170 Professional High Speed Colour Duplex Document Scanner - Network Enabled

No issues at all. Client had purchased a cheap scanner to save money but it never worked properly. A few days after I set this up she texted me to thank me and said she would be buying one for home.

This scanner runs at or near its rated 70PPM when using the twain driver with 3rd party applications. It also renders images that require little to no PC processing time to save. We use this scanner in a law office and it is fast, works great, jams little, is easy to clear if it jams, works with a wide range of paper types and thickness. Did I mention that it's fast?

Rename, rebrand, do whatever you want, the old Fujitsu scanners outperform the new scanners with ease.

It says it should support Win7, but kind of does.. but not with manufacturers help. The drivers will install, the software from the CDROM does not. Manually you can go inside and setup PaperStream Capture, by by-passing the Primary Installshield Setup program associated with autorun.. that just gives no feedback and doesn't install anything except the driver. The PaperStream Capture program will install and work, but the PaperStream ClickScan will not install saying its incompatible with Win7. From what I can tell its how they created the Install package and not the software product. The developers of the software PaperStream Clickscan simply both said Win7 "supported" and never "tested" their isntall package which has a Block on install for anything less than Win10.. not sure if 8.1 will work. TWAIN support is nice, 32 and 64 bit which is why people seek out a true Fujitsu/Ricoh scanner. Bazillion new and old programs will work with it. The Feed Rollers use a new technology that is not supposed to go "gummy" after a year or two.. looking forwards to that.

I've been keeping all my paper bills in sorted files for the last couple of decades, and it's reached a point of critical mass in the last year: My office is impossible to use with all of the files and papers! I did a bit of research and found that the older model of this scanner was highly recommended for fast, networked, full duplexed scanning with a large Automated Document Feeder (ADF). The price was a bit higher than I really felt that it should be for what it is, but after buying it and using it, I've found that it's worth the money, hands down. Pros: Small footprint, fast, networked, large ADF, full color Cons: Software is somewhat lacking, Network is wired only, not a good browser-based web UI for it Final thoughts: If you're like me and you are drowning in stacks of paper, consider this scanner. I will say that I didn't find any of the included software would be able to meet my needs/desires for digital organizing, and there are limited options relative to this in the general market. Being a software engineer myself, I have started to build a browser-based tagging and organizing system for this. But there may be other simpler options for you depending on your needs and desires.