Need a scanner that will do up to 11 x 17

Randy,

Check out the Brother line of all in one printer/scanner/copiers. I have one and have been pleased. Several others on here have been as well.

Jimmy

The Brother full sized all in one office machines are worth every penny.

They are on sale and the quality is pretty good to any type of paper.

The will hook up USB, Lan, Wireless and print from an SD Card, Memory Stick and Thumb Drive.

It will work as an inline Fax when you have that client that still wants to Fax.

The two tray J6710DW will do photo quality prints at 11x17 on InkJet paper (good quality bond) that really makes a drawing snap.

I think they are around $250 or less delivered to your door. The last one I got I ordered it online from Staples and went to the store and picked it up.

They also have a model that will do 11x17 scans without the multiple trays for less.

Visit the Brother website and check out the specs and then shop google for the best price.

B-)

I have a Brother that has multiple trays and scans 11x17 and would highly recommend it, that is why I have it, because a couple other surveyors I talked to liked theirs.

Ed

Why not a PDF app for your phone? I've had great success with mine. I could understand not wanting to use it for something you would be digitizing off of, though.

I'm using an HP officejet 7610. I caught it on sale at Office Depot last year for about $100. I've been pretty happy with it. I don't think it will run 11x17 through the automatic feeder, but you can scan them on the flat bed.

Brother MFC-J6910DW.

Got it off ebay. New and shipped for just under 300.

Duplex prints and scans letter sized. Prints and scans 11x17 (may even duplex 11x17 but, I haven't tried).

2 years and going strong.

Oh yeah, comes with nuance software, paperport. Although it's a little no frills, it's done a find job annotating/ editing scanned images, converting pdf's and spitting out pdf's of things I've edited.

ditto on the pdf app

I use CamScan on my Samsung Galaxy S5 and it has saved me enough in copying fees at the courthouse and copying other reference material to easily pay for the phone.

When a client comes out with something it takes a few minutes to get a good pdf file.

Still not as sharp of a copy as the Brother will make (picture quality), but a real good app.

I can zoom in with mine and see better detail than SOME scanners. Also, I would rather pay for courthouse copies and still use my phone to make PDFs of the deeds, way faster than running books to the copier (and I can usually use the books faster than some crappy courthouse computer system).

I went with hp7612 for about 180 bucks. Will take 13x19 sheets on the flatbed. I need to replace my plotter but putting it off, so wanted a true wide format to handle most maps I need to print. First one printed okay but scanner did not work but they replaced and the second one is working fine.
I've been searching software capabilities and so far looks like Abbyy finereader 12 professional is the only way to go for scanning documents to go digital, it is about 150 but I have not bought it yet.

I've never found anything that scans as fast as a camera takes a picture.

I know the scale might suffer, but in reality what do you need from old surveys, more than the actual data that's on the map?

Even at that, the pictures I take scale relatively close and I can set the scale in TerraModel(I'm sure in Autocad and such too), and as long as I'm working with the "data", on the map, I'm perfectly happy that the lines produced ..."from the data", agrees pretty nicely.

I also have a 7610 all in one HP printer and have been very happy with it.