Mitsubishi DV650U
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Mar 1, 2005 12:00 AM
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Mitsubishi |
RRP: $149 (time of review)
When it came down to the hard numbers, the DV650U outperforms the more expensive and better featured scanners by a significant margin.
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A nondescript looking scanner that admits to a 36-bit colour depth, enhanced to 48-bit through its drivers.
A nondescript looking scanner that admits to a 36-bit colour depth, enhanced to 48-bit through its drivers.
At $149, it competes directly with the Canon LiDE 20 and the HP 2300, both of which are 48-bit scanners. It also goes up against a low-priced BenQ that supports a higher resolution. While it loses some ground to these scanners on features, the DV650U hits the nail on the head when it comes to the crunch – it scans well.
The DV650U outperformed all other scanners except for its bigger brother, the Mitsubishi DV150U. In our tests, the DV650U recorded one of the lowest colour-deviations from our reference drum scans – this means it was able to reproduce colours that were very close to the original, resulting in an almost perfect digital copy.
It also scored notably high for text, showing that the bundled OCR software produces excellent results. We found that the DV650U scanned very fast at low resolutions, and maintained a speedy scan at higher resolutions – here it squarely beat the high-scoring DV1250U.
We have to admit that until testing, the DV650U looked very plain and ordinary. It lacked the sophisticated design and sleek looks of some of the other candidates. Features are a bonus and a variety of options and add-ons will always come in handy, but a scanner should ultimately be able to do one thing well – scan.
It’s one of the lowest priced scanners in our roundup – and when it came down to the hard numbers, the DV650U outperforms the more expensive and better featured scanners by a significant margin.
This article appeared in the
March, 2005 issue of PC Authority.