Title: XP - bloated software, & no 48-bit w/out Photoshop!
Product review: HP only lists it in some of their specs, but the scanner only scans at 48-bit if you have an external application that can handle 48-bit scans (such as Photoshop). HP claims that software that can handle 48-bit color is too expensive to include with the scanner. If you do have Photoshop, and you turn on 48-bit color processing, you'd better be prepared to wait. It made the image preview time go from a few seconds to a minute or two. And that's just the preview - not even the final scan! If you scan in regular color depth (24-bit), the scans are pretty low quality, with a jpeg-esque fuzziness at all the color edges - and that's scanning as a TIFF. The OCR is useless - I could type it faster than it would take to fix all the problems!Software is really, really bloated. I downloaded the update from the HP website- it was 164MB! Yes, I typed that correctly. One-Hundred & Sixty-Four Megabytes! And if you ask me, it wasn't worth 16k.
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