Ricoh Image FI-8170 A4 Document Scanner

Just an update from the review I posted back in July 2014. I've just passed 90,000 scans (180,000 pages) and the scanner is still working perfectly. I clean it every 5,000 scans as the manual suggests - cleaning takes about 20 minutes, but I try to do a good job of it. One thing I've started doing for my old magazine pages is kind of crumpling the pages a bit before feeding them into the scanner. These old pages have sort of stuck together over the years (some are almost 40 years old) and the scanner can't pull them out as single pages. Not the scanners fault, it's hard sometimes to separate them with my fingers, so I started the crumple thing and no more double feeds. I've tried scanning at the max quality setting, but my computer will only take about 50 scans and ... MoreJust an update from the review I posted back in July 2014. I've just passed 90,000 scans (180,000 pages) and the scanner is still working perfectly. I clean it every 5,000 scans as the manual suggests - cleaning takes about 20 minutes, but I try to do a good job of it. One thing I've started doing for my old magazine pages is kind of crumpling the pages a bit before feeding them into the scanner. These old pages have sort of stuck together over the years (some are almost 40 years old) and the scanner can't pull them out as single pages. Not the scanners fault, it's hard sometimes to separate them with my fingers, so I started the crumple thing and no more double feeds. I've tried scanning at the max quality setting, but my computer will only take about 50 scans and it runs out of either memory or speed. The next to best quality I don't max out the computer, and it looks fine. Great product.

By far the best scanner for a medical office. I have not done any scanning of images; but the speed alone is worth the cost. I had over 20 Epson 560’s and have replaced the high use scanners with the Fujitsu fi-7160.If you are doing smaller jobs where speed is not an issue you might be able to get away with a lower quality scanner. If your volume increases you will need to upgrade; I wish I bought 20 of these from day 1.Highly recommend and B&H shipped quickly and secure. I have bought 99.99% of my photography and film gear from them for years, so I have full trust in them.

This will be my 5th fi-7160 purchased (all are still working). I have a tax practice and I value the time we save and ability to return records immediately to my clients. Documents come to us double sided (ie broker statements) they come in various orientations landscape or portrait. The Fujistu rotates all the documents so I can review all the work online without manually rotating each image in my document management software. Jams and double feeds are very rare. Each staff has one and they love it. Over the years I have eliminated the need to send paper records off to storage. Every thing is scanned and the fi-7160 (and fi-6130z) is a major reason for that. Why pay for offsite storage when all I have to do is increase the size of my server hard drive (yes I backup ... MoreThis will be my 5th fi-7160 purchased (all are still working). I have a tax practice and I value the time we save and ability to return records immediately to my clients. Documents come to us double sided (ie broker statements) they come in various orientations landscape or portrait. The Fujistu rotates all the documents so I can review all the work online without manually rotating each image in my document management software. Jams and double feeds are very rare. Each staff has one and they love it. Over the years I have eliminated the need to send paper records off to storage. Every thing is scanned and the fi-7160 (and fi-6130z) is a major reason for that. Why pay for offsite storage when all I have to do is increase the size of my server hard drive (yes I backup as well). This scanner is an intelligent and fast work horse. You wont go wrong with this scanner.