HP ScanJet 200 Flatbed Photo Scanner

Very capable piece of kit - simple to set up & install, works happily with my Windows 7.1 64-bit set up and provides good quality images. I bought it primarily for scanning documents, but I've tried photos with it also and have no complaints on that score either. The bundled software (Arcsoft Photostudio 6 and ReadIris Pro 12 OCR app) is decent rather than outstanding, but it does the job. Performance is also good - quiet and quite quick and the scanning application has a nice & easy to use front end.In short, you won't go far wrong with the Scanjet 200 - whilst I've had mixed results with HP desktop PCs in the past, their peripherals (printers & scanners) have always been good and this continues that trend.

Like it, easy to use and fine line originals well at 400dpi to my satisfaction, slowly, bit tedious if you're in a hurry, but quality is good on a laser printer, what i wanted. So can't argue with the price. The detachable lid is a bonus for doing books. Set up instructions were pretty much nonexistent, see some buyers griped about drivers, etc. I'm running an old Mac with Yosemite, no drivers listed, and was uncertain as to whether an older OS one worked (it did just fine) so I got onto HP service who were great and sorted it for me. Comes with a couple of disk programs I loaded but don't really use, probably good for doing artwork, get to that later, they look ok. Loaded it onto the dock so it comes on with startup. For some reason, maybe cos it's running on the OS instead of one of the programs, it likes to scan an 'overview' right away, v. slowly if there's nothing in it, so cancel that, do an 'overview' for the first thing you scan and then it sits there happy and works right away when you need it. You can obviously select areas of the doc to scan, etc. So while there's faster things around, if you're on a budget and the spec is okay, I'd recommend it.

I purchased this scanner based on the reviews and being HP expected that the driver support would be good. Before buying I checked their site for the latest driver and they do have a Windows 10 driver package released in July 2015. This works perfectly with my Windows 10 Dell laptop. My recommendation is not to install any CD which is supplied with the scanner, but download and install the new driver (~110 Mb whole package, not the basic driver) and then follow the instructions and connect the scanner. I had a minor freeze after scanner connection, but I rebooted it and it works very well.The supplied scanner software is very good and I mainly scan documents both B&W as well as colour. The colour reproduction is excellent at 200 DPI scan and adequate for an A4 PDF view. You have various options of file format and my default is PDF which compress the documents very well. I would recommend to use the default directory which the program creates "My Scans" in the Documents directory in C drive. I tried to change to SD card and had problems like freezing probably due to memory issues. One of the best features is that you can scan multi-page documents as a single file by adding pages after each sheet and the final scan is a single document. It is very light and portable. I give five stars to this scanner.

Bought this to replace an all in one printer and scanner where the scanning was basic and couldn't produce PDF files. This is a brilliant option for those wanting a simple to use and physically small scanner (size of a big laptop) for occasional jobs. Created several PDF files of multiple pages that were good quality and appropriately sized files for easy emailing. Highly recommended and works well with my HP Windows 10 laptop.

Well, what can I say. There is another 1-star review on this product where the reviewer couldn't get it to install on Windows 7/8, and I have found the same problem.I bought this to replace an HP c4180 all-in-one as the software would not install after I moved from Windows XP to Windows 7. HP do a new version of the software for post-XP users and this would not install either.So having received the ScanJet I ran the install which supposedly checks the system first, then installs scanning and copying programs. Click on the icons - nothing! Well actually it couldn't find an executable. Cannot delete the software either as it's not been registered. Restored the machine and tried again, and again, and again. Tried this on another Windows 7 machine - same result.After a day and a half I contacted HP. Over six days, in four separate 3-hour sessions (involving three different support staff) they took COMPLETE control of my machine and had carte-blanche to do what they wanted to identify the problem. This involved screenshots, installing Solution Centre for other HP products, editing my Registry setting etc etc. Meanwhile I'm stuck like a lemon in front of the machine on the phone plugging-in and unplugging the scanner on request.They have now given up, and the helpful advice is that they aren't able to reproduce the problem on their machines, even though they are configured the same (Huh?), so it must be how I installed Windows 7 and perhaps I should re-install the O/S. There's no evidence otherwise that there's a problem with Windows.For a starter, there are very few significant configuration options available when installing Windows 7 from scratch. The HP installer is supposedly checking the system before installation, so clearly this isn't very effective. HP have no diagnostic or trace functionality built in, or available, should the unthinkable happen and the software doesn't install.HP support approached the whole problem as if it was an Administration/Permission problem - even though there was only one User on the machine - they even created a new Administrator user and tried that. All to no avail.Fortunately I used Acronis True Image to clone my hard-drive before HP got their hands on the machine, as they would have left it in a pretty awful state at the end. It became quite obvious that if by any means HP had managed to get scanning/copy-to-printer functionality working, then that would have been the end of it as far as they were concerned and I would have been left with a mess of a machine. I certainly don't think I would have been left with a solution I could have applied to the other Windows 7 machine.So bottom-line is that if you have an off-the-shelf computer and you haven't changed its basic configuration, then this scanner will probably install without problems. If however like a lot of people you have had to migrate from XP when support for XP ended, and chose to install Windows 7 from scratch, then there's no guarantee that you will be able to install the HP Scanning software. You will be able to load the HP driver manually, but you'll be limited to the basic Windows scanner interface which doesn't even save to .pdf files.My scanner is going back, and Amazon are thankfully covering the postage too, but this hasn't been a good experience. I like HP products, but I feel they are let down by the crudeness of their software solutions. What next? Canon?