Brother ADS-4500W Wired and Wireless Document Scanner |
Brother ADS-4500W Wired and Wireless Document Scanner | SuperSpeed USB 3.0 |7.1cm Touchscreen |Advanced Image Capture, UK Plug
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Brother ScanEssentials
Our ScanEssentials Lite software enables you to scan documents easily, create simple workflows and save them securely to folders on your network, with minimum effort.
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Our ADS4 series are designed for any corporate office looking for efficiency. They offer an attractive workflow proposition which includes a range of optional Brother Upgrades.
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| Scan speed | Up to 35 pages per minute | Up to 40 pages per minute | Up to 35 pages per minute | Up to 40 pages per minute | Up to 60 pages per minute |
| Connectivity | SuperSpeed USB 3.0 | SuperSpeed USB 3.0 and wired | USB 3.0, wired and wireless | USB 3.0, wired and wireless | USB 3.0, wired and wireless |
| Paper handling | 60 sheet ADF | 80 sheet ADF | 60 sheet ADF | 80 sheet ADF | 100 sheet ADF |
| 2-sided scan | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Display | LED keys | LED keys and 3 configurable hot keys | 7.1cm touchscreen and 20 shortcuts | 10.9cm touchscreen and 56 shortcuts | 10.9cm touchscreen and 56 shortcuts |
| Power requirements | AC adaptor | AC adaptor | AC adaptor | AC adaptor | AC adaptor |
| Scan to | Email, file, OCR, image | Email, file, OCR, image | Email, file, OCR, image | Email, file, OCR, image | Email, file, OCR, image |
| Weight: | 8 kg |
| Dimensions: | 38.9 x 32 x 24.6 cm; 8 Kilograms |
| Brand: | BROTHER |
| Model: | ADS-4500W |
| Colour: | 7.1cm Touchscreen |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Manufacture: | Brother |
| Dimensions: | 38.9 x 32 x 24.6 cm; 8 Kilograms |
It’s a great scanner. Brother quality all the way, despite huge price-tag.
But if you ever need a replacement power-supply, all hope is lost.
First it’s impossible to find out what power-supply is needed. There’s no details in the instructions or online. Best I can tell is it’s a 24V power-supply but there is no easily findable replacement online.
Second, if you can even get to customer support (in the UK) they will be no help whatsoever. They don’t even themselves know what replacement power-supply is needed.
Third, if you ever want to get your scanner fixed or serviced there’s almost no repair centres in most of the UK. They’ll invite you to drive to Manchester.
Such a shame because they actual machine itself is awesome. But only so long as you don’t need any customer service, a repair or a replacement part. You’ll end up buy another one instead, which at over-priced prices makes it a ludicrous proposition.
This is a grate item and have saved me loads of time scanning in documents it has not let me down
Works well with Apple iPad and the App
Easy to use and set up
Scanning documents quickly and both side at the same Tim.
I would give this 10/120
Apart from the problem with PDF-XChange Editor we did like the scanner, it just wasn’t suitable for us.
Glad l did my research. For a small business this device is invaluable and very impressive. Managed to scan an A4 arched levered binder in less than half a day (over 500 double sided documents in colour). At the price point this may not seem like the fastest machine when you look at the pages per minute, however, this becomes irrelevant. What is really important and what really impressed me, was the speed at which the software, converted the images into a PDF over WiFi. I also like the fact that it can be used by multiple PCs and that it is compact (the paper tray can be folded away). It also has a touch screen interface. Well done Brother. 5 Stars.
Just be aware this scanner takes paper from the back and captures it bottom up, so you’ll need to put your stack of paper in backwards and upside down for the intended result!
The physical scanner bit is great and if you are scanning to a usb no issues.
The scanning software is horrible though and in the end I totally gave up trying to get it to scan direct to PC.
Easy to set up, install and use. Scans both sides at 40ppm and the software collates the pages. It’s been an absolute boon to the office as we need to scan large amounts of paperwork generated by our work. Five Stars!
A very good thing to have and go paperless! It does the job as expected, the software is easy to understand & use, the scanning is of good quality and seams to be a reliable machine (well, so far so good – let’s hope…)
However, the set up is somewhat arcane and the ned to download the installation software is merely Brother being ‘cheap’.
Hardware let down by the output tray: had no jams from feeding in but a number from documents catching on previously ejected ones. Have now set it up without the tray extension at the end of the table so the documents drop into a tray I’ve positioned 4 inches below.
Software provided is simple but limited : OK for my purposes where I’m merely digitizing lots of old documents to store away but I wouldn’t be happy if I had to use it for heavy business use.
Reading other reviews there are obviously a lot of people out there who can’t read., or don’t believe in the internet. Note that:
1. The full manual IS easily available on the Brother web site in English.
2. The scanner software CAN DO OCR / produce readable/searchable documents.
3. You DO have the option of creating one multi page document or, one document per sheet, or one per image.
For 2 & see image
I got this because apparently I need to keep paper bank statements from 2003 onwards…
I was getting ready for a day full on scanning and was finished before I felt like I’d even started. So then I went on the hunt for more things to scan. I know have a paperless home and lots of empty lever arch files.
Couldn’t recommend it enough.
The ADS-2700W can be set up entirely via its web interface, which is straightforward to use. We opted to configure to send scans via email as we run our own email server. Shortcut keys allow for programming to email to individual users at preset configurations (we allow for B/W, grayscale or colour).
In use, it’s very impressive. Scanning is very fast, the sheets flying through the feeder, and seconds later arriving as an email.
It would be nice to be able to scan to print, and (at least in a Linux environment) this should be pretty straightforward to set up using inotify(7) and SFTP (which the scanner supports).
Only complaint so far is that the flip-down sheet scanned-sheet catcher is unduly flimsy for an office machine. Even with careful treatment this will not survive more than a few years. The 5590, in contrast, was very robust.
Setting this scanner up was very easy. I had it connected to wifi in under a minute, and within 10 minutes had connected to the cloud and was sending scans directly to DropBox. All of this was done via the touch panel on the scanner itself, which is very simple & intuitive to use. No software had to be installed on a PC at any point (yay!) and it also looks like admin-type tasks can be done via a built-in web interface on the scanner itself, although this hasn’t been needed so far.
Registering dropbox on the device is very simple, via the ‘Brother Web Connect’ portal. The device is authorized in dropbox first of all, then a temporary access code is entered into the scanner to finish the registration. Really simple and a nice UX overall.
What I really like is that documents are OCR’d by the scanner itself, and they go straight to dropbox. No intermediate service is used (that I can determine). It is a little slow to process & upload each scan compared to the scanning speed itself, which is blisteringly fast. The shortcuts that can be setup allow multiple users to share the device and have their scans go to different destinations (DropBox vs Google Drive), and even different folder locations within each service to allow easy organisation of different document types.
We’ve barely started using all of the scanning features but so far we’re very impressed.
In this case it was exactly as I’d hoped. I have been using a flatbed scanner to scan documents to go out to clients. Generally, these range from 40 to 50 pages long and since my old flatbed scanner will not allow me to feed too many pages in it was taking me literally hours to scan and bind the documents.
I can now put a 50-page document come up with writing on both sides of the page through the scanner and the scanner speedily scans and then releases the papers in the order they went in. I must admit I was very surprised to know that the scanner will assess if there is writing on both sides of the page and if so scans both sides.
The scanner was a doddle to setup, but I do not confess to know all of its intrinsic parts and what you can do. I just needed a scanner to save me time and this does just that. I also needed a scanner which I could plug into my computer or into a USB stick. in this case it does use a USB 2 connection and whilst this isn’t the fastest or most convenient it does work well.
All in all, I am happy that the scanner has saved me time and money and I would certainly recommend that machine to anybody who has documents of up to 50 pages to scan. I only use it maybe 2 to three times a week so I can’t say that I’ve overused it. However, it has worked well what is been asked to do.
Having spent 40 on scanning at a local facility, this has already paid for tself in the first couple of hours of use. User instructions are not that great so it’s helpful to have some basic knowledge of networking. Thats said the Brother Help Desk is good and with Webchat they can sort things out. The unit is compact and easily stored in a drawer. It’s certainly fast and hasn’t thus far jammed. Quality is excellent and by experimenting with different outputs I’ve found a happy compromise or speed and reproduction. For home use it’s brilliant and I wish I’d bought it before forking out 40.
My best scanner I’ve used so far.
Brilliant.
Had a problem with my previous Fujitsu product and wanted a non-Fujitsu replacement. I’ve had other Brother devices in the past and been happy with them so opted for this. Been happy with the product so far.
So we bought this and I could not work out at first why the machine would not run. the instructions seem confused and I was scratching my head once i found the right drivers and soft wear the thing is great but I was surprised at Brothers support which was not very supportive and wanted to charge for the set up advice!
Actually I was so impressed with the first run of double sided scan I felt I had a new toy lol
Hats off to the developers of this awesome product! Sam
Fantastic desktop scanner, compact and easy to set up. Speedy scanner with duplex scanning which saves me loads of time. Would definitely recommend. I can’t comment on tech support as no need to use it as yet.
Fast at 24 double sided A4 at 30 seconds when set at 300dpi
The software used on this is the basics and meets all my requirements.
Light, small footprint.
Software downloaded fron web, not supplied with machine.
No USB connector supplied.
After a couple of weeks of use, all the above holds but I still can’t get over the speed. Reduced time spent on this very boring task dramatically.
It just does the job it was bought for, no fuss. I found the free software does it’s job. Some reviews criticised the software, but it does what I need without a problem.