Brother ADS-1250W review | Pros and cons

What’s so special about it?

The perfect home or small office scanning solution for your documents “Brother ADS-1250W”. If you are thinking of buying a scanner that fulfills all the basic and some advanced needs, it’s better to go with “Brother ADS-1250W”. Why? Because it possesses many exciting and useful features that most people search for when they go out shopping for a scanner. Therefore, today we are not only going to talk about the functionalities offered by this scanner but also some features which distinguish it from the rest. The compact design and fast speed helps in effective scanning without having to worry about anything. The scanner comes with the duplex feature, which allows you to scan single-sided and double-sided sheets in one go. Moreover, the scanner is plug & Play; means it starts working just after you connect it. It reduces the need for installing software to a great extent. However, there is some software like OCR which help in specialized activities with images. When someone talks about portability, their primary concern is with the ability to take it anywhere. With the compact design and 3.0 USB powering feature, the scanner becomes quite portable. Now for those wondering, the scanner folds in a way that it becomes a solid rectangle that you can carry in your bags. Also, the fast 3.0 USB powering lets you turn the scanner on with the power of your laptop or PC, making it suitable to work with low power providing economical use of energy resources. A free app “Brother IPrint & Scan” helps you scan your documents directly to your compatible Mobile devices, particularly the Smart-phones. The scanning is versatile as there are slots available to scan Business-Cards or National-Cards. The company provides a one-year limited warranty. It includes a free online call or live chat to provide you the technical support. It’s a plug and play scanner, which means it works without the need to install the software. Many operating systems are already compatible with the Brother ADS-1250W, so you probably don’t require it. Scanning to USB is a very useful feature that comes with this model and also with the Brother ADS-1700W: With Mass-Storage support, the documents are scanned and saved on the USB flash memory drive. It doesn’t have a dedicated card slot like the Brother 920 has, but it is still a big advantage. Then, you can open these files directly on your PC. It mostly helps when people don’t have time to turn the Laptop or PC on.

Brother ADS-1250W Datasheet Explained

Brother ADS-1250W offers a scanning speed of 50 IPM (images per minute). It includes both the single and double sided-scanning, and also the color or black & white paper. The more the IPM, the faster the results will be, and the better the performance.

The A4 size these days is the most commonly used paper size. ADS-1250 supports it. Sometimes, the required scan is higher than the recommended size. In that case, it takes it as the A4 size. In addition to that, the max document size is 8.5 x 34 inches. Now for those wondering, the large size matters because it lets you scan pages a bit larger than ISO standards.

To talk about the resolution, ADS-1250W delivers 600 DPI (dots per inch). That’s great because most scanners of this type provide up to 600 DPI. For knowledge, a scanner with a resolution of 400 DPI is better but less than that results in a poor quality scan.

Now you can connect your PC and Mobile device with the scanner without wires and scan documents without worrying about physical connectivity. Although the transfer time of a wireless connection is slower as compared with the USB one, it is still faster than which other ordinary scanners provide. USB 2.0 and 3.0, also Wireless 802.11 b/g/n are compatible with it. The interfaces like TWAIN, WIA, ICA, SANE have been provided in the scanner for developers if they wish to integrate it with their customized application. It’s a great feature because many sometimes developers need that kind of merit. Okay, if you are not a developer, don’t bother too much.

It also supports Dual CIS, which requires the papers to have close contact with the scanner glass. It is not an advanced level feature, but still, it helps in many ways.

Moreover, all papers like Plain-Paper, Copy paper, Thin-Paper, Thick-Paper, Thicker-Paper, Recycled-Paper, Business-Card, Plastic Cards are applicable supported along with other custom print materials not mentioned here. The reason you can scan plastic cards is because the scanning system has a direct pass without any bending. All paper types up to A4 ISO standard are accepted.

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Features for Productivity

To satisfy your fast scanning needs, it has duplex Scanning which is a feature that scans both sides in one go and helps a lot. People who have had experience with portable document scanners search for this feature to increase productivity and also avoiding delays.

The scanning software enhances scans with automatic image processing algorithms. Automatic Color Adjustment and detection work a great deal of enhancing the color images, the image rotation feature for rotating the image but it works only on PC, text improvement in terms of quality, color drops, and the bleed-through and background removal along with text enhancement are the features available for advanced users.

This wireless duplex document scanner easily scans up to 1000 pages per day and still functions properly under warranty conditions. .

Quality of images

Automatic Deskew, a feature for aligning pages, has been included because sometimes operators forget to straighten the papers or the feed rollers do not perform qualitatively.

Punch Hole Removal is the basic need of everyone who has been with the work of scanning documents in the past. Most of the time, documents within a file need a scan, but to remove holes after scanning each document becomes a hectic task. Therefore, to get better results, Punch Hole Removal automatically detects holes and fills them.

The included software suite with the Brother ADS-1250w wireless compact color scanner helps manage documents and OCR (Optical Character Recognition). OCR converts the image document into the digital text, providing you the flexibility to edit or change.

This wireless portable compact desktop scanner doesn’t have a rechargeable battery like its competitor, the Epson workforce es-300w does. It powers through the AC adapter. .

Brother ADS-1250W accesories unboxing

The scanner has a 20-page capacity auto document feeder. Just feed the scanner with pages and click the scanning command. Thanks to ADF Tray, it’s great because when you are busy doing something else, Brother ADS-1250W is there to help you scan automatically. It saves time and reduces the labor of putting paper again and again. However, including an ADF Tray to document scanners increases the size of it overall, so small scanners wouldn’t have it.

The dimensions and weight are 11.8 x 3.3 x 4.1 inches and 3.7 lb. (1.67 kg) respectively. As both of these features help in reducing the space they need, it also increases portability, so they are beneficial.

As you know that hardware to work effectively and reliably software is needed, so it is with this scanner for documents and photos. The company has included software: PaperPort SE with OCR for Windows, Power PDF, Epson ScanSmart Accounting Edition Software, and Brother IPrint&Scan app. This software package will help you with the proper functioning of the scanner, it optimizes images and text and it includes some simple document management features to optimize your business process. It also allows this wireless scanning device to scan to multiple destinations including cloud storage platforms like Google Drive, Dropbox or Evernote.

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Brother ADS-1250W driver, manual & brochure

To download the drivers for the ads-1250w wireless compact color desktop scanner, click Brother’s Drivers. Select the type of system and download the drivers. It’s that simple.

You can also check out the User-Manual for the info on how to use the Brother ADS-1250W. User Manuals are useful, but many people don’t realize the importance of it, and sometimes things go wrong. Therefore, to be able to use the scanner effectively, it’s better to read at least the main points of it.

Lastly, the Brochures, they provide quite important information about products such as product specifications, interface specification, network specifications, etc. allowing you to be a pro at using the products. To read the Brochures, click here.

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What do real users say?

After setting it up on Mac, operational on Siera, they faced no problem regarding the installation of the software, the things went smooth. A user who scanned a thesis of almost 600 pages complemented the fast scan speeds from the USB and the wireless connection. It was much faster than their flatbed scanner. The wireless scan was appreciated. There are two most important things to know for the successful working of the scanner; you need both the electric switch connected to the socket along with the USB cable connected to the Laptop or PC. As for the usability of software is concerned, it was easy to use. The advance mode provided many useful features liked by people such as file types and shortcuts. Even if a jam occurs, it’s nothing; not a big deal, rather a lot easy to fix. An individual who had been using it advised keeping the scanner on a plane leveled surface; uneven surfaces result in paper jams. In addition to that if unfortunately, jam occurs, pull the paper backward. The scanner is compact which is loved by most people as it provides many useful features in a standard size. The quality and the amount of space it takes on the are the main features which enabled many of them to choose it. The double-side scanning is impressive not because of functionality, rather for the same amount of speed as required by the single side, it works for double as well. Moreover, it would smoothly go zipping through pictures if scanned instead of texted documents. Of course, the software produces many single pieces of documents into one .pdf file. It just keeps appending it to the end of the document. On the other hand, if you want a single file for each scan then the scanned files would be in .jpg format. You can get all the documents directly to the flash drive without having to use the computer. However, keep in mind that all the files may be compiled within a single PDF file. Also, make sure that you have selected the flash drive option to have this feature enabled. The control center software has the functionality to convert the graphical text into digital text for editing using OCR. I assume without it, the scanner would have been an incomplete package. <!–

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