Strobe Xp 300 Sheetfed Scanner

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Product Description

The Visioneer Strobe XP 300 is a reliable duplex scanner for the office, on the road or at home. Measuring only 2" x 2.5" x 12" and weighing a mere 20 ounces, the Strobe XP 300 is slim and lightweight. It fits neatly on a desk and packs easily alongside your laptop or in a briefcase for travel. Scans anywhere because it is powered through the USB port, or choose wall-powered mode to conserve your laptop battery. Now you can quickly scan, file and store all of your documents, plastic ID cards, photos, articles, brochures and business cards no matter where you are. The Visioneer Strobe XP 300 instantly turns paper documents into distributable digital files and when powered through the USB port, can be used even when electrical power is not available, convenient and compatible. Imagine being able to scan receipts in your car, business cards on an airplane and work effortlessly in foreign countries.

General
Type	Sheetfed scanner
Max Supported Media Size	Legal (8.5 in x 14 in)
Width	12 in
Depth	2.5 in
Height	2 in
Weight	1.3 lbs
Compatibility	PC
Scanner
Input Type	Color
Grayscale Depth	16-bit (64K gray levels)
Grayscale Depth (External)	8-bit (256 gray levels)
Color Depth	48-bit color
Color Depth (External)	24-bit (16.7 million colors)
Optical Resolution	600 dpi
Scanner Speed Details	6 sec/scan
Compliant Standards	TWAIN, WIA
Media Handling
Max Document Size	8.5 in (Legal) x 14 in (Legal)
Supported Media Type	Plain paper, business card
Media Feeder Type	Manual load
Expansion / Connectivity
Interfaces	1 x Hi-Speed USB
Miscellaneous
Included Accessories	Stand, carrying case
Cables Included	1 x USB cable
Compliant Standards	FCC Class B certified, CE, UL, VCCI Class B ITE
Power
Power Device	Power adapter - external
Software / System Requirements
Software Included	Drivers & utilities, ScanSoft OmniPage, ScanSoft PaperPort Pro 9 Office
OS Required	Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition, Microsoft Windows XP
Peripheral / Interface Devices	CD-ROM
System Requirements Details	Windows 2000/ME - Pentium II - 300 MHz - RAM 128 MB - HD 200 MB Windows XP - Pentium II - 300 MHz - RAM 256 MB - HD 200 MB
Environmental Parameters
Min Operating Temperature	41 °F
Max Operating Temperature	95 °F
Humidity Range Operating	20 - 80%

Customer Reviews

Reviewed on 2008-01-07 Excellent way to go paperless Bought this for my husband. He loves the ease of use and being able to reduce paper on his desk. Excellent product.

Reviewed on 2007-11-17 Sorry Visioneer, you just keep getting worse I bought this scanner awhile back thinking it would save a bunch of time to be able to scan both sides of a page in one feed. Silly me. This is the worst PaperPort I ever owned. I have owned four over the years and kept hoping they would get even better. I eventually returned this POS. I wish I had the first PaperPort I ever bought, which was terrific, but of course was not updated to work with XP. Visioneer, if you're going to force us to upgrade at least make the new scanner as good as the last. I've had the 100, 200 and 300 and all of them are problem-plagued. The 200 and 300 cut off the top 1/4 inch of your doc no matter what you do. Their auto-crop feature works about one in four scans with the result being that it cuts the right or left third of the page off. I just spent most of the day scanning with the strobe 200 and nearly lost my mind. I had to unplug and replug to get the scanner to be recognized. I had to reboot. Refeed. Straighten. Rescan. You get the picture. I am one PO'd owner. On the plus side, I have always found the folks at Visioneer tech support to be some of the most honest and patient I have ever encountered. I feel sorry for them. I'll bet they want to ring their friggin's engineers' necks fifty times a day! Will someone come out with portable sheetfed scanner that really works and actually saves time instead of creating massive headaches? I'll pay $300 for such a scanner, but it BETTER WORK! Also Visioneer engineers and coders, how about releasing a finished driver for the Strobe 200? Vista's only been out ten months now. What the heck!

Reviewed on 2007-03-15 Is the manual wrong? I'm really confused by the reviews here. I was thinking about buying this scanner a little while ago and was put off by all the negative reviews. However, today I found the manual at the Visioneer site and some of the complaints are addressed in the manual. Specifcally on page 119, it shows that the autoscan can be disabled, and if it is enabled the paper pickup delay can be adjusted. Are reviewers here saying that these features don't work, or are they simply unaware of the ability to choose these settings? Wish I knew! Update: So I just got off the phone with tech support - because I can't stand unanswered questions - and the gentleman I spoke with was truly one of the most pleasant and helpful techies I've ever called. No joke. Definitely not the rude, indifferent people described in the other reviews! He informed me that you CAN in fact set the autostart delay if you want to. He said it was an issue when it was first released, but that it HAS been fixed. He also said that since the XP 300 is designed to be able to handle thicker items like driver's licenses, etc., that it does handle thinner items like receipts a little differently than the old scanners which were not designed to do this. I loved my old strobe scanner, but as good as it was, even it could be finicky at times. It was a small price to pay for the convenience, though. Another thing to consider for those of you who have experienced connection issues or other weird behavior - CHECK THE CABLE. So often we blame the equipment and we forget the usb cables and the power cords we connect them with. They DO go bad! Back in the early 90's, our first computer was having numerous weird problems and I kept telling my husband to try a new power cord. He didn't listen, and kept trying more "likely" solutions. I finally convinced him we had nothing to lose by trying. New power cord, ALL the problems went away. I've run into this with power supplies, too. They weren't bad enough to quit, just bad enought to mess with things.

Reviewed on 2007-01-09 Worst function per $$ I can imagine I am a long time Visioneer fan. It started with my initial parallel-port attached STROBE, windows 98 (95?) and the SUPERB paperport desktop. When the paperport (now Nuance) people offered a special on the Visioneer 300, I assumed (sigh) they had tested it and found it a good match. NO! 1. The lack of insert delay is HORRIBLE as you can't get the stuff aligned before it grabs it. 2. the feed rollers are feeble. Any excuse to "skid" (not continue to scan in the paper) is a problem. When the paper leading edge hits the teeny resistance of the curve of the exit, (when trying to feed it back to you like my old paperport did - this one is totally unacceptable in only sending it out the back another inch higher), -or- when there is any input resistance - a slight down-fold in the paper (like every tri-fold sheet comes in the mail) then it again skids. 2a. I can even PUSH THE PAPER THROUGH THE FEED ROLLS, because they are so unbelievably feeble. 3. My $59 or so Canoscan LiDE 35 has a wonderful "text enhanced" mode, while the $300 or so XP300 doesn't. I don't believe I have ever spent so much money for something as completely unusable for its designated purpose. I am tempted to take it apart, and wrap some surgical rubber around its toy feeder wheels, so it will at least grab the paper. If I break it in the process then I will no longer have to be unhappy with it. SHAME SHAME, Visioneer!!! This should never have made it out of development engineering prototype phase! OH AND FINALLY, silly me, I thought since PaperPort is SO nice, they would, with the xp 300, become a "feed paper onto your virtual desktop", but alas, no, you have to push so many buttons, have to destack everything (since single scans are SO unproductive due to all the button pushing)... I've written some MacroExpress macros so alt-S scans and alt-D is done, but still... So shame on paperport/nuance for not really trying it, and most of all shame on me for buying it without looking for reviews such as this one! P.S. "Yay Amazon". Much of my Christmas shopping, etc. Great!

Reviewed on 2006-09-29 Worst scanner ever The other reviewers basically summarize it all. I am going to return it. After complaining to the company about some problems their reply was: "You are right, these are known problems, no solution yet". Every new model gets worse. They have a great idea for a product but simply don't get it. Total idiots.

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