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It's most impressive attribute has been its incredible speed compared to using a flat bed scanner with minimal misfeeds or jams (maybe one every 200-300 scans, mostly my fault). So far, I've scanned one book and a dozen magazines with good results. On magazines, I spend more time cutting off the spine with a rotary paper cutter than I do actually scanning. The same will be almost be true with books (mostly perfect bound paperbacks) once I get my band saw set up to cut off the spines (changing blades is a pain). I found that it is necessary to separate each page from the next prior to loading them (in batches of 20) into the scanner to avoid misdeeds or jams. Even so, once I separated 20 pages and loaded them into the s1500. I was able to get the next batch ready about the time the previous batch was finished scanning. Overall, it took between five and ten minutes to scan a 100 page magazine or book, a figure I'm happy with.

Post edit: While scanning magazines, I've found I can put up to 140 pages (70 sheets) into the scanner without so much as a gentle belch from the scanner. I've found it's much faster to just fan the pages along the cut edge, put them all into the scanner, and deal with any paper jams that may occur because a couple pages were'nt quite separated. The jams are rare and when they do occur, are easy to deal with.

Post edit: Anyone buying this scanner to scan books, be aware that using a saw to cut off the spines is not a good option. After scanning over a hundred books, I found that paper dust on the inside of the glass camera plattens was causing streaks in color and grayscale scans. The problem was caused by my using a bandsaw to cut off the book spines. The teeth of the blade left a fine, friable edge that shed paper dust like a long-haired dog in Spring. No amount of cleaning would eliminate that dust from the cut edge since more would crumble off in the scanner. Because of the large amount of dust, some managed to work its way inside the machine even though I didn't use compressed air (which is forbidden in the manual) to clean it (the band saw also accumulated huge amounts of dust and glue would get on the blade and tires; I had to spend unacceptable amounts of time frequently cleaning glue off the blade and the tires of the saw). I bought a guillotine type paper cutter and that almost eliminated the dust problem. When I called Fujitsu about getting it cleaned inside, they agreed to clean it under warranty but said the scanner was intended only for office work and not for book scanning since the cut edges crumbled so much but they did agree to "clean" it under warranty (they said the cameras were sealed units and would have to be replaced). After receiving the unit back, I cleaned the small amount of dust that accumulated in the scanner after each book (probably no more than 300 or more office documents would have left behind) with a small vacuum (per Fujitsu's suggestion) and a small brush design for dusting off LCD TV screens. The unit has been working fine ever since. If, after several hundred more books, dust gets into the scanner cameras again, I'll just get a second s1500 for scans other than books and save this one for books only. The streaks did not show up in B&W scans, which is what I use for the body of the book and only a small amount in the covers, which I didn't really care about as long as they are readable so the machine would still be acceptable for book scans.

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