Canon LiDE 400 Colour Flatbed Scanner (Black) - Space Saving Design with USB Type-C Connectivity, Easy One-Touch Operation - Ideal for Home or Office

The Canon LIDE 400 is my third of these type of scanner I have had over time starting with the Lide 110. Previous Lide models all worked reasonably well except from panel scanner buttons which stopped many years ago on MacOS, a software issue probably. My Lide 220 didn't survive the upgrade from from Ventura 13.6 to Sonoma 14.0 via should add though the same would have happened going to Windows 11and it's about 10 years in the market. I tried the usual things but it didn't really seem to budge so decided not to sweat the problem and just get a more up to date Canon. First, Amazon supplied wickedly fast arriving 7:43 AM less than 12 hours after ordering. The Lide 400 is the top of the range of Lide scanners, the 300 is about £20 cheaper but loses some document scanning options exchanging USB C for a micro B on the back of the cheaper model. I mf you are going portable I'd go for the 400 because those micro B are super delicate and only go in one way. I mainly use it for document scanning though quoted resolution and apparent facilities make it good for photography too I bet. For document scanning the Lide 400 claims about 8 seconds scanning time whereas my old Lide 210 10 seconds, the difference isn't readily apparent in practice so the cheaper Lide 300 would have done just as well for that document scanning. I am a Mac user so that is what I will concentrate on, there are loads of people out there who have reports with Windows.Box contents:- Scanner- USB A to C cable- Scanner stand- CD (see below)- DocumentationOnly thing to do is remove the tapes, other packaging and unlock the scanner head (bottom towards the front). Then hook up the cable and make Mac OS aware via Printers and scanners of the new unit detected via AirPrint although it's a scanner and no Wi-Fi involved. Effectively this means support is built into Mac OS itself so there is no driver from Canon.To save this being too long some bullet points:Good* Scanner is very nearly plug and play affair with Mac with respect to driver install. You just have to add the scanner from within the Settings app, it is an AirPrint device even thought it is not a printer.* IJ Scan utility is dark mode - hooray!* Very clear fast document scans at 300 DPI should be good for higher resolution photography work.* Scanner front panel buttons which actually do work, previous models buttons stopped working (some kind of software issue).Not so Good* The CD only contains a Windows installer, for Mac you will have reach Canon's driver pay to download any relevant companion software.* There seemed to be some teething issues with detection of the scanner, I managed to resolve by juggling connections of my 16 port USB hub to fix.* IJ Scan utility is very much more complicated than it was, not good for keyboard users. I accept though that this is a very niche thing. Most others want more buttons and functionality which it does provide.§* You cannot tweak the precise behaviour of the physical buttons on the scanner.

Worked straight out of the box, easy and quick to set up. It takes up desk space because, obviously, it needs to cope with standard paper sizes, but it's thin, so a shelf solution just above the desk works. Very lightweight, perfectly good quality scans, easy to operate. We normally research this sort of thing a lot before buying, but this was one of those 'the scanner isn't working, get a new one quick' scenarios, so we didn't, but this was a good buy.

Basic reasonable value

Brilliant ,easy to use and good reproduction

I finally decided to digitalise all of our family documents- given that we are a big family, it was getting a bit much having several filing boxes, so I took a chance and invested in this Canon scanner.I'm genuinely quite impressed, the set up is super straight forward, you can follow the website link provided in the instructions and download the necessary programme, and that's it. You plug the cannon straight into your laptop and away you go. Scan speed isn't spectacularly fast, but it isn't super slow either. Meaning you can scan and upload into files fairly quickly. The scanner itself isn't particularly bulky or heavy either, so it can sit beside the laptop on the table and then be put away easily. This scanner is making uploading all of our family paperwork and then transferring to an external hard drive for storage very straightforward. I'm looking forward to having more space and less paperwork to wade through every time I need to find something.

It's a fantastic scanner that is easy to set up and use. The quality of the scan is excellent, and there are multiple other uses that I haven't had time to try out yet. As mentioned in other reviews, please note that there is an unlock button on the base of the scanner that you need to slide across for the scanner to work. Once this is done, and before you connect the included cable to your laptop/desktop, go to the website address given in the set-up manual and download the software; this will prompt you when to plug in the cable. Then, all you have to do is click finish. When you want to use the scanner, plug it into your laptop, place the document you want to scan and press the PDF/Scan button on the scanner, a pop-up box will come up on your laptop with simple instructions for you to continueAll in all, I class this as an office/home office/home necessity.

this time the scanner works well. just plugged in and it scanned with ease. great for a portable device at home for personal documents, inserting images into papers.if you want very high quality then you need to use an industrial scanner on full size copier at work or in a store.