Kodak intros 200 page-per-minute i1860 commercial scanner

With all these newfangled fingerprint / retina scanners in the news lately, it's easy to forget about the plain ole document-reading variety, but Kodak is bringing it all back into focus by unveiling its "fastest production scanner ever," the i1860. The mammoth-sized device captures images at up to 200 pages per minute, and sports a snazzy color touchscreen as well as "automatic height-adjustment" for those long, cold nights spent running year-end reports. Its SurePath technology, in conjunction with "three ultrasonic multi-feed detection sensors," will supposedly help you avoid an office worker's worst nightmare (paper jams during crunch time), and the five output formats should handle just about any obscure map or overcrowded spreadsheet you throw at it. The machine also touts a 300dpi optical resolution, 500 sheet feeder, JPEG / TIFF file export functionality, and FireWire connectivity. Should you work in a heavily overloaded archiving business, or just have ridiculous amounts of cash to burn, you can pick up have this 480-pound beast delivered in December for a whopping £55,000 ($104,605).

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[Jason @ Nov 3rd 2006 2:41AM]

It's really for pirating books.

[Eddie @ Nov 3rd 2006 3:14AM]

I was just thinking of that before I checked the comments...lol.

[Androhair @ Nov 3rd 2006 3:59AM]

Interesting device but pretty expensive for lets say a small office that even when its small sometimes can produce a great amount of paperwork.

[Androhair @ Nov 3rd 2006 4:00AM]

Interesting device but pretty expensive for lets say a small office that even when its small sometimes can produce a great amount of paperwork.

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[GhostDoggy @ Nov 3rd 2006 5:19AM]

200 PPM scanners have been around for years. This is not new.

[oddsends @ Nov 3rd 2006 8:40AM]

For six digits 300dpi is all they can muster? Pathetic and overpriced.

[tracy @ Nov 3rd 2006 2:24PM]

a. it MIGHT BE 200 ipm not ppm
b. 300 dpi is all you need for documents being scanned on a device like this
c. its not overpriced, its actually competitive
d. a small office isnt going to use this, this is for large organizations that are paperless

allot of what i see on this blog seems silly lately, i used to watch it for usefull tech news but lately its seems like just a bunch of cell phones and monitors. this is the first usefull item ive seen here in awhile.

[Gadget Extremist @ Nov 3rd 2006 8:35PM]

This is the type of device that a police department might use to keep all those tens of millions of local criminal and/or traffic records in order. Other goverment agencies with no shortage of doccuments to be archived like courts, army, pentagon, navy, airforce, election departments, etc would have a use for a high speed 300 dpi scanner. At $104,000 it would save a ton of labor and quickly pay for it's self in less than a year.

[j3oomerang @ Nov 3rd 2006 3:08PM]

cant everything be computerized and digital already