Kodak i3500 Scanner Review

Kodak i3500 scanner is built to deliver high performance and fulfill the bulk scanning needs of a business. The digital era is growing day-by-day, you can easily find departments working on the paper and then scanning the documents to keep a digital record or to share those records for different purposes.

Bulky yet easy to setup and use

i3500 is an enterprise scanner for heavy scanning usage so it has a large footprint. It has the capacity of 300 sheets and can scan up to 30000 pages in a day with the rated 110 pages per minute of speed. It can also scan the document from both sides in one go.

Setting up the scanner takes only a few minutes. Simply connect USB to your PC. Plug in the power and you are ready to scan. The package includes a CD loaded with required driver and software, simply install the driver and it's done.

Performance

The Kodak i3500 is rated to produce up to 110 images per minute, during our test, we scanned mix of pages (includes images and texts). This supports up to 600 dpi, if you are using the software, it will let you choose dpi while scanning any document or image.

While scanning pages, it took...

Color 24 bit
A3 max 1200 dpi both side 0.08.25 sec
2 A3 max 1200 dpi both side 0.12.25 sec
25 A4 assorted sheets both side at 1200 dpi image quality scan 2.20.66 sec
25 A4 assorted sheets single side at 1200 dpi image quality scan 1.12.67 sec

Grayscale 8 bit
A3 max 100 dpi both side 0.04.37 sec
2 A3 max 100 dpi both side 0.04.86 sec
25 A4 assorted sheets both side at 100 dpi image quality scan 0.16.03 sec
25 A4 assorted sheets single side at 100 dpi image quality scan 0.16.48 sec

It scanned documents and images not only quite quickly, also with the good amount of details. The colors were crisp and bright.