Scanning feeds on Ngenuity
Scanning feeds on Ngenuity
March 25, 2009:From rice paper to stuffed envelopes, new Ngenuity production scanners from BÖWE BELL + HOWELL have an appetite for a wide range of challenging document management jobs.
Designed to accommodate the needs of paper-intensive industries such as healthcare, financial services, insurance, government, transportation and service bureaus, Ngenuity claims to scans a wider range of documents than any other scanner in its class.
The scanner can handle documents ranging from plastic cards to to fetal monitoring strips at speeds of 150 ppm at 200 dpi in color, bitonal and grayscale.
Ngenuity's rotary paper path is used for scanning most documents such as invoices, forms and contracts. The scanner's straight pass through paper path is an alternative for exception documents that might not make the turn through a rotary path. With the option of feeding very thick or stiff documents to exit through the back of the scanner, everything from plastic cards and cardstock sheets to stuffed envelopes can be scanned in batch mode.
Ngenuity's long document mode can handle documents such as oil well logs and EKG strips up to 200m long. The scanner's folded and fragile document modes auto-adjust feeding and transport settings for folded or fragile documents.
In order to ensure that every document fed is scanned correctly, Ngenuity is equipped with three independently controlled sensors for accurate Ultrasonic Multifeed Detection. BÖWE BELL + HOWELL's "Multifeed Ignore" functionality allows users to accept scanned images and continue scanning or preemptively accept an intended multifeed. Further, Ngenuity's "Ignore by Size" function allows users to process taped receipts, sticky notes and other items that the scanner might otherwise tag as a multifeed.
The scanner's integrated feeder tray holds 700 sheets. A Variable Feeder Tray Capacity control frees users from being confined to preset batch size limitations while also remembering and auto-adjusting the feeder to the most recent batch size.
A smart combination of white LED illumination and high-precision SharpShooter Trilinear CCD cameras help Ngenuity produce high-quality digital images consistently. The SharpShooter cameras offer 600 dpi true optical capture and output and the LED lights, which require no warm-up time, allow users to scan at optimal image quality as soon as the scanner is turned on. Clear images lead to faster, more accurate forms processing and better intelligent character recognition (ICR) and optical character recognition (OCR) rates.
Kofax's VirtualRescan (VRS) 4.2 Professional technology, which comes standard and onboard on Ngenuity, allows users to tap into VRS's image enhancement and interactive problem resolution functionality without sacrificing scanning speed. Onboard VRS 4.2 Professional on Ngenuity offers more precise image cropping and advanced color management, which can further improve image quality for documents scanned in color.
Ngenuity features USB 2.0 connectivity, is SCSI ready and comes with everything users need to start scanning right away. This includes:USB 2.0 cable for easy connectivityInstallation Resource CD with Ngenuity Operator Utility and VRS 4.2 professionalPower cord, starter cleaning kit, camera calibration kit
An optional user-installable, pre- or post-scan imprinter allows users to add a time and date stamp and imprint up to 72 characters per line.
The scanner's user-friendly operator interface and smart front panel functionality provide easy access to frequently used features and includes two customizable function buttons. Much of the scanner and software functionality is also accessible from the PC. This includes the Operator Utility, which monitors maintenance schedules and provides easy access to cleaning and maintenance menus.
Ngenuity list price ranges from $25,500 to $74,000 in Australia depending on the scanner model.