Product Description

Compact and Elegant Style. Quality Scans

Product Details

• Brand: Canon
• Model: 1502B002AA
• Released on: 2006-09-04
• Dimensions: 1.60" h x 14.80" w x 10.20" l, 7.00 pounds

Features

• 4 easy buttons to copy, scan, e-mail or create PDF files
• One USB 2.0 Hi Speed Cable for USB power
• Advanced Z-lid expansion for scanning bulky items

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Compact and Elegant Style. Quality Scans.
With the CanoScan LiDE70, high-quality scanning has never been simpler. Four easy buttons automate the entire process, so it's a snap to scan, copy and create e-mail attachments or PDFs. Built-in retouching technology can further enhance your final images and the Advanced Z-Lid expansion top lifts approximately 1-inch vertically and lets you produce clear, complete scans even of thick originals such as notebooks. One cable provides both power and a USB 2.0 Hi-Speed1 data connection and the included stand lets you position the scanner vertically to save desk space.

Features include:

• Superb Scans: Produce scans with spectacular resolution of up to 2400 x 4800 color dpi.
• Rich, vivid color: 48-bit color depth yields over 281 trillion possible colors.
• Faster data: The USB 2.0 interface enables the fastest possible image transfers and scanning speeds.¹
• Copy / scan thick originals: You can even copy or scan thick items that do not lie flat on the platen.
• Incredible resolution: The included software greatly enhances resolution, up to an amazing 19,200 color dpi.
• Less Wires: One convenient cable to your computer provides both a USB connection and power.
• Easy scanning: Large function buttons automate the scanning process—select the use for the image and it's ready in seconds.

What's in the box
CanoScan LiDE 70 Box Contents, Stand, USB 2.0 Cable, Documentation kit: Setup Software & User's Guide CD-ROM, Quick Start Sheet, Safety Procedures, Registration Card, Cross Sell Sheet, Warranty Card

Customer Reviews

compact perfection
for what it is designed to do it is perfect. small, & to emphasize convenience, no electrical wire necessary - usb sufficient. its a lid top, but it can intelligently process numerous pictures at a time by determining borders- though it sometimes makes slight mistakes. its small enough to easily be taken from room with desktop to room with laptop.

its scanning resolution is adequate but not spectacular at 600dpi. its speed however blew me away. at tiff (lossless) resolution (17mb per photo) of four 4x6 photos, it took less than 50 seconds to save to file & it comes with useful text recognition software - i suspect most people will use alternative image editing programs than the supplied arcsoft.

for the price, excellent value

Scannertastic!
If manual feed is all one needs, the LiDE 70 is more than enough to create business quality photocopies, faxes, and digitized images. Images can be edited, subject to OCR, printed to actual size, if not more, with little loss in resolution.

Without bulky electronics needed for film scanning, the LiDE 70 is compact, light, and quick acting. Energy efficient, its powered by just an USB 2.0 port and can run off an unpowered USB hub. It is roughly as large as a stack of 100 sheets of legal paper. The included software is user friendly with options for advanced functions.

Most flatbed scanners scan over 300 dpi, the base resolution for many high-end print images today. The dpi specification is less important than an ergonomic device that is so easy to use that users concern themselves more with what the scans are for, rather than how to scan a document.

The LiDE 70 has an embedded counterfeit deterrence system and will give a TWAIN error if a user scans certain monies. Its is not clearly documented by Canon.

Nice scanner
I researched this scanner in August at Canon's website, and all of the info on it sounded very appealing to me, and I bought one the first week they came out in September. I've had two Visioneer scanners and have used someone else's Visioneer's 7300 USB scanner on occasion and I had been looking into possibly buying one of those instead, and I was a little apprehensive about buying any other brand, but the CanoScan LiDE70 way beats them hands down in regard to clarity and quality of the scan, and I'm glad I bought one over the Visioneer 7300 USB, as this CanoScan LiDE70 is far superior, IMO.

About the only thing I can say anything critical about it at this time is that it's a little noisy while scanning, but I can easily live with that.