HP L1910A#B1H Scanjet 5590 Digital Flatbed Scanner
by Hewlett Packard
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Customer Review: Works pretty well as a SOHO non-production scanner
Summary: 4 Stars
This scanner works really well for small jobs. I've found the mechanics to be fine and the driver to be fine for small jobs. Good feeder, good scans. It's not a production scanner, which nobody should ever buy it for anyway because of its slow scanning speed. In addition, as best I can tell the driver does not really support batch scanning. Still, if you're willing to select output quality page by page to get out of the default, it works fine.Customer Review: NOT for the novice.
Summary: 3 Stars
Windows XP. SP2. Single Gateway Profile computer. MS Office. Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional. USB Connected.
Mostly used for scanning documents directly into *.PDF files WITHOUT using the OCR feature.
We bought this scanner a few months ago to replace a 7 year old HP Scanner, also with a document feeder.
The HP Scanjet 5590 is not something you can expect to work right out of the box; it isn't as plug-and-play as we would have liked.
The included software is extensive and takes a long time to load (and to repair!). It may also require some tweaks to work at all, one of which we got from HP on the telephone and another (to improve scans into PDF) we found on their web site.
Once working, the software is still not "intuitive". There are many complexities to scanning and the HP software has a significant learning curve.
The scanner warms up quickly; the document feeder is fast and reasonably reliable but can jam if it doesn't like the paper fed through it.
The double sided scan works but again, the paper must be be good quality.
We have had no difficulty scanning a dozen or more pages either through the document feeder or indivual scan into a single PDF file. We have also scanned single photos into *.jpg with good results. We have not scanned slides or negatives.
We only use the software controls and can't comment on the button features.
We have not yet had to partially disassemble and manually clean the document feeder and have no comment on this feature either.
In summery: If you have some computer experience, especially with scanning and you have time to sort out the glitches, you can probably make the 5590 work for you and get good results. If you are a relative novice, this may not be the right place to start.
Customer Review: Underrated Scanner
Summary: 4 Stars
Had to chime in on this one. We got the scanner about four months ago to replace a discount-bin flatbed Canon. It's true that the thing occasionally locks up on me and requires a cord-pull. (Anybody else miss 'off' switches?) The ADF also spazzes on some pages - no rhyme or reason to it, just about 00.5% of the docs I scan it can't grip or something.
The good news is that for what I do (making PDFs from official letters for business records)it works great. The front panel buttons can be set up to output to a PDF without any additional input or software interference - I just tap in how many pages, press the 'scan document' button I've got tweaked, and it doesn't bother me until it needs a save name for the PDF.
I do a mix of Letter and Legal, which could be a headache - the scanner can't do duplex Legal, or Letter and Legal in the same job. However, the workaround is easy. After each scan job it asks if I need to scan more pages into the document. I scan the first set, then click more and scan the next. The ADF recognises which type it's dealing with, so there's no reconfiguring going between stacks of Letter and stacks of Legal.
Would I recommend this scanner? Not for everybody. It's not optimised 'out-of-the-box', and it's twitchy enough that you kind of have to know your way around to keep it running. I'm a pretty competent tech, and I like it just fine, but I don't know if Grandma is going to put up with its' shenanigans. This would be less of an issue if the HP tech support were helpful, but I haven't been able to get a straight answer out of them regarding my issues, and I speak the lingo.
This is a great scanner, but it is not User Friendly.
Customer Review: Difficult to use
Summary: 3 Stars
Noisy, unreliable, quality less than Canon has.
For document scanning we replaced it by Microtek
ArtixScan DI 1210.
Customer Review: Horrible scanner
Summary: 1 Stars
I use this scanner at work, even though I've tried to convince them not to order these. This scanner and the HP 550 below it are horrible. The software that comes with it takes up a ton of memory usage and is just generally bad. The OCR reader software and scanner are really poor and it is almost easier to just re-type documents yourself. Another issues is that the scanner is constantly being removed from the scanner list in Windows. We use about 6 of these scanners at work, and as the IT guy, I constantly have people calling me and telling me that Windows says they have no scanner installed. I have to "reinstall" them by removing the USb cable and plugging it back in so Windows will recognize it. Additionally, the document feeder james and sucks up multiple pages constantly.
The biggest problem however is that this scanner DOES NOT WORK with Adobe Acrobat. The software is incompatible. You can scan 15 pages of a document, but the software will only return the first page to Acrobat. You cannot do multiple page scans with Acrobat unless you do each page separately. If you visit the HP help forum you'll see this is a common problem with several of their scanners, and has been for over two years yet it still hasn't been fixed. The only way around this problem is to install a third party driver.
I would stay away from this unless you can find it really cheaply.