Kodak i2600

Kodak i2600

Almost identical in most ways to the Kodak i2400 ($845 direct, 4 stars) that I recently reviewed, the Kodak i2600 ($1,195 direct) offers three key differences. It's faster, with a 67 percent boost in rated speed for the 40 percent jump in price. It has a higher capacity automatic document feeder (ADF), at 75 pages instead of 50. And its three row by fifteen character LCD shows scan profile names instead of just numbers as you scroll through the choices, a feature that makes it far easier to take advantage of one-button scanning, and should be (but sadly isn't) standard. The boost in speed is enough by itself to justify the difference in price. Combined with the higher capacity ADF and twice the recommended duty cycle (at 4,000 sheets per day) it makes the i2600 suitable for even heavier-duty scanning. So where the i2400 is a potential choice for an individual, small office, or workgroup, the i2600 is more definitively a small office or workgroup scanner, and a particularly good fit in either case. BasicsSetup is typical for a document scanner.