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Color at Work
®
Scan
Scan to File Productivity
Measuring productivity from a purely
mechanical perspective (not taking the
human element into consideration)
involves two main elements.
• The time to get all the pages scanned
so the user can walk away
• The time to transmit the data back to
the desktop for further processing
BERTL conducted a productivity test using
a standard government tax application
form as a template.
The times were taken from the moment the
scan was initiated until the final page
exited the document feeder. The time was
also taken to the point where the file could
be opened from the desktop destination.
As the tables below illustrate clearly, the
impact on the walk up user is very
marginal when you move from 200 dpi to
300 dpi, with a slight increase when
moving from monochrome to color
scanning.
The larger difference comes when you
consider the time lag before the scanned
files can be accessed. In this instance,
while the 200 dpi text/photo monochrome
scan took only 14 seconds longer to scan
through the document feeder than the 300
dpi color text/photo scan, the time lag
increased from only 11 seconds after the
last page came out in monochrome scan
mode to over 1.5 minutes in 300 dpi color
scan mode.