Hewlett Packard Scanjet 5590 Flatbed Scanner

Pros: It works 8 hours a day. Makes us money with it's productivity.

Cons: Occasionally it will jam, but not to the point of being a distraction.

The Bottom Line: I would recommend this machine to other businesses and would buy it again.

Review: I purchased the Hewlett Packard 5590 Flatbed scanner nearly two years ago to use in a small business office which is highly technical oriented. This machine is hooked up to a Windows XP Pro machine which is connected to a small local network. The initial ...

Pros: sheetfeeder actually works. scan speed is reasonable, software is functional, price is unbeatable

Cons: could be faster, photo images could be better

The Bottom Line: An affordable way to get closer to the paperless office.

Review: I dreamed of a day when I could: 1. scan in all our clients' documents so they could be reformatted and sent around the country without using FedEx; 2. Get rid of our dedicated photo copier and fax machine; 3. Make low-cost color photo copies using ...

Pros: You're kidding, right?

Cons: Jams frequently, software incredibly buggy, difficult to install, works only intermittently.

The Bottom Line: Laughably bad if HP weren't making so much money suckering people into buying. It should have a ranking lower than one star. DON'T BUY THIS SCANNER!

Review: Our law firm purchased this scanner and tried for months to get some decent usage out of it. After multiple phone calls to tech support and then HP corporate headquarters, we threw up our hands, dumped it, and were blessed with the good Providence to ...

Pros: None that I'm aware of.

Cons: Will not scan a large document without quitting.

The Bottom Line: Do not buy this scanner! You'd be better off holding up $300 and letting the wind take it.

Review: I want to let you know about the horrible experience I had with HP's 5590 Scanjet Flatbed scanner. I am a network admin on a LAN with about 100 users. We needed a scanner to be able to convert documents digitally for emailing, archiving, or for use with ...

Pros: None.

Cons: ADF jams. Poor customer support.

The Bottom Line: I would not recommend this product; it wastes both your time and money.

Review: I bought this product because I was trying to organize my life by scanning all the documents that I'd collected over the years and eliminating the large messy pile of papers that kept growing in the corner of my office. Little did I realize I was just ...

Pros: Lightweight so you can heave it quite far when it fails.

Cons: How about this: it doesn't do ANYTHING dependably.

The Bottom Line: Spend your money on something that will scan better - like a shredder.

Review: I have tried numerous scanners in the past to facilitate document imaging for my household finances. This one purported to handle duplexing - a feature that interested me greatly. The 5590 handles (or mishandles) this by running the document over the ...

Pros: Comes with hundreds of megabytes of free software.

Cons: Free software is useless, as is the scanner.

The Bottom Line: Buy something else.

Review: Terrible experience. Cumbersome, bloated software install where even the MINIMAL option installs some kind of HP "Share to Web" app and something called "Memories Disc". Wouldn't scan by using the buttons on the scanner or opening the HP software, but ...

Pros: Automatic sheet-fed duplex scanning, slide and negatives scanning, good quality

Cons: The worst drivers and bundled software I've ever seen, relatively slow, jams.

The Bottom Line: Total disappointment, barely suitable for basic scanning tasks , stay clear from this model.

Review: I've ordered this scanner for the work to scan multipage documents (some as big as 30-50 pages). The model looked the best choice to me both because of the specs and because of the HP name. However, when I unpacked the product and turned it on, it ...

Pros: Price

Cons: Software, Reliability, Compatibility

The Bottom Line: Software drivers are terrible - keep away from this product!

Review: I recommend that you eliminate the HP 5590 from any consideration of potential scanners. The quality of the software and drivers provided with this product are among the worst I've ever encountered. More than just being difficult to work with, there is ...

Pros: The are absolutely no pros to this scanners. It even looks bad.

Cons: Poor design, poor functionality, extremely poor software. Backup non-existent.

Review: Quite simply this product should not be in the marketplace. We bought the scanner in order to scan our incoming correspondence and develop a more paperless office. We also wanted to use it to backup digital copies of a number of our core reports. This ...