Pandigital Photolink One-Touch

Product Survey: Scanners

The Pandigital Photolink One-Touch Scanner is the perfect companion to a digital photo frame. Without switching on your computer, it allows you to automatically copy printed photos onto a memory card which you can then slide into your memory card. It takes up very little room on your desk but is very easy to use. We think it's a great idea for those who sometimes struggle with technology: you can go straight from a traditional paper album to a digital photo frame without anything in between very quickly. It's very small then--just a tenth of the length of the Epson V30 and 25 times less voluminous, the One-Touch Scan doesn't make its presence felt. As its name suggests, it's very simple to use, with just one button needed to start scanning. All you have to do first is slide the photo you want to digitise into a the plastic folder that's supplied before running it through the scanner. Scanning a photo at 300 dpi then takes just 9 seconds, which is a good result. Like this model, most flatbed scanners do this task in around 10 seconds. There is a significant loss of quality, much more so than with a flatbed scanner, whether or not it's part of a multifunction printer.