Boost Your Business With The Right Wide Format Scanner

By Jackie Horn, BÖWE BELL HOWELL Scanners

Why Wide Format?
When you need to digitize oversized documents like maps, architectural drawings or engineering blueprints, it's important to have quick and easy scanning capabilities at your fingertips. Outsourcing wide format scanning to a service bureau can be expensive, especially if you consistently have a large document load. Therefore, a one-time investment in a high-quality wide format scanner may be your best bet.

A quality wide format scanner can streamline your business operations and ensure that valuable documents are reproduced clearly, and accessed and shared easily. With that in mind, it's vital that you look beyond the list price and get the best value for your investment by carefully assessing the most important features of the scanners on the market and aligning them with your company's needs.

Assess Your Needs
First, figure out what size paper you will be scanning. Wide format scanners range in size from 25 inches to 54 inches, but you don't always have to match the scanner size with your paper size. A scanner with image rotation technology can save you money by allowing you to buy a smaller scanner and simply feed your documents lengthwise. Prior to scanning, you can simply program the scanner to rotate the image 90, 180 or 270 degrees so you and others can view it right side up.