ADS-4500W
I wish I had owned this…
05/04/2023 16:12
I was pleasantly surprised to find that the Brother ASD 4500W scanner was compact. This meant that I would have no problem finding a home for it in my office. The set up really could not have been any simpler. I downloaded the app to my mobile phone, scanned the barcode in the set-up guide and followed the instructions. Less than 10 minutes later I was scanning my first document. The only part of the set up that I found tricky was typing my Wi-Fi password on the small screen of the scanner. In future I will use a stylus instead of my chubby fingers! I scanned documents in different sizes and in paper thicknesses. All scanned super quickly, and the resultant scanner quality was excellent. It was super easy to scan multiple pages and the scanner will accept up to 60 pages at a time in the feeder, (in less than 2 minutes). It is possible to add more pages to the saved file for documents of over 60 pages. Unlike previous scanners I’ve used, all pages came out straight and there were no paper jams. There are options to save documents as jpeg images or as pdfs to a variety of different locations such as mobile phone, USB, ethernet or W-Fi. It can also scan directly onto a shared drive or even to e-mail.
One of the reasons I wanted a scanner like this was to digitise photographs. I was sceptical about how well the scanner would perform in terms of image quality and efficiency, but I need not have worried as both surpassed my expectations. Although I did not time the speed of scanning photographs, it was even quicker than scanning A4 documents.
On my next use decided to scan documents onto a USB and then also to my PC. After downloading the drivers, the process was incredibly simple.
Super simple to set up, so far I’ve set up a shortcut for scanning photos onto USB , single sided in colour with a resolution of 600dpi and a shortcut for scanning documents in black and white with a resolution of 200dpi and omitting any blank pages. I discovered that if scanning photos directly onto a mobile phone it is only possible to select a maximum resolution of 300dpi. It is just so convenient to be able to scan without the need for a PC and the image quality at 300psi still looked great, so I’m likely to continue to scan from the app on my phone and reserve scanning to my PC for special photos where I want higher resolution.
I would wholeheartedly recommend this scanner to anyone. It just makes life so much easier.
mistymoo70
East Boldon , Spojené království
Age: 54
Gender: Female