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Ricoh Aficio MP1350
Scan Data Capture Productivity
Judging scan productivity is another difficult task. The impact of the user on the overall process will be largely determined by the amount of work required at the initial scan
operation. In other words, if the scan operator is expected to enter copious amounts of metadata using the device touch screen interface before hitting the scan start button, then the overall productivity is going to be governed more by the
However, if the user is merely scanning a file to a precon- figured location, then the scan productivity can be meas- ured looking at two aspects: the time the user must wait until they can return to their desk with originals in hand and the time they must wait before the files can be ac- cessed.
BERTL looks at both of these factors across a selection of scanning settings.
Scanning time is only one part of the time required to sup- port image creation. Getting it to your destination is an- other. The chart below shows the scanning time, but also reflects something just as, if not more, important: the time it takes to actually use this image. This is a frequently overlooked aspect of scanning. There are differing time elements in the actual scan side of the operation, but also in the time to desktop.
BERTL’s test included different resolution settings (200 dpi and 300 dpi) as well as different capture levels: Text only and Text/Photo.
Results
Monochrome scanning showed negligible differences in scanning time or data transfer speed between 200 dpi and 300 dpi scanning. There was no impact upon scanning when OCR color dropout is included which will please those looking to use the device for forms processing and other color dropout tasks.
There was also no noticeable scanning slowdown when we switched to color scanning at the 200 dpi resolution level. At 300 dpi, color scanning speed did slow down 28 percent.
The largest slowdown was seen when BERTL switched to using the compressed PDF scanning format. While greatly reducing the file sizes created during the scanning proc- ess (which could ease communication and result in faster data transfer rates) the actual scanning time for the origi- nals was substantially longer than in the uncompressed mode with the 300dpi Text/Photo color scan taking nearly three times longer to carry out in PDF compressed mode.
This in turn impacts the time the users must spend away from their desk before they can return with their original documents in hand. Lower productivity in converting the file to High Compression PDF more than makes up for the
greatly reduced file transmis- sion times.
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