Hi, Guido. This is very good news. I didn't know that some of the newer devices work well with assistive technology. From your experience with this device, could this be used as a person's primary scanner if one scans books and magazines most of the time? I'm asking because 90 percent of what I scan is material for Bookshare. I can see that there is a whole area of technology where I need to rethink my opinion, and I'd like to know how these devices work now. The HP in my dad's office is about 3 years old, and the Xerox is a year older than that. After coping with them, I had written off all-in-ones, especially since they cost about the same as a good scanner but seemed so slow. Your results with the Lexmark are exciting to me. I have a Lexmark printer and love it.
Monica Willyard Guido Corona wrote:
I have been very impressed by the Lexmark X7350 I received for my office. It does print, copy, fax, scan. It is ergonomically very well designed and can be largely serviced by myself, including accessing the paper transport to fix any paper jams (which by the way have never occurred). The scanner is fast and is surprisingly compatible with Kurzweil. OCR quality seems to be comparable with what I obtain from my EPSON 660. I performed installation of the X7350 software with JAWS. More interestingly, the FAX utility that ships with the scanner is delightful to use with JAWS. By the way, this is a color inkjet device. Price is well under $200.I am so happy with this machine that I am seriously thinking of acquiring its monochrome laser sibling -- the Lexmark X342 for home.By the way, no matter how good the scanner is in these multi-function devices, it is worth pointing out that the scanning surface is rather high above the desk surface, making the scan of entire books somewhat inconvenient.Guido Guido Dante Corona IBM Research, Human Ability & Accessibility Center, (HA&AC) Austin Tx.
