Brother DS-820W review | Is this portable scanner worth it?

What’s so special about it?

Brother DS-820W is one of the best mobile scanners that is very and handy for any smart mobile phone user who wants a powerful scanner. This device is regarded as one of the more versatile portable scanners among other local scanners in the tech market. It’s very ideal for capturing business documents, as well as receipts, business cards, laminated identification cards, invoices, photographs, and more. It can be operated wirelessly also and includes a rechargeable Lithium-Ion battery, enabling Wi-Fi transfer of scanned documents to computers and mobile devices. It scans at up to 1200×1200 dpi resolution (interpolated) and 600×600 dpi (optical), with fast color and black scan speeds of up to 8ppm‡; It is compact in size, flexible USB or battery power, and valuable suite of scanning software make it a great fit for any daily uses in home offices and desks and so on. DS-820W Wireless Mobile Document Scanner from Brother scans your documents and other important papers on the go. The 600 x 600 dpi sensor scans documents at up to 8 ppm and can handle pages up to 8.5 x 32″.

Brother DS-820W Datasheet Explained

DS-820W is a lightweight mobile scanner Max Scanning Speed LTR at 300 dpi(2). The DS-820W is a little larger and less weight, simplex (one-sided), sheetfed scanner, at 1.6 by 12.1 by 2.1 inches (HWD). However, it’s certainly small enough to carry easily.

DS-820W portable scanners will capture high quality scanned documents directly to your desktop/Laptop anytime whenever and wherever you want. With a single touch of a button, it converts hard copies to digital files quickly and easily. This also can scan various media formats from business cards, plastic ID cards, photographs, receipts and up to A4 documents.

The brother DS-820W mobile scanner is included with the best dpi covering optical Resolution of 600 × 600 dpi resolution, meaning that this scanner is much better and productive in terms of giving quality printing. The highest Image size supported by it is up to 1200×1200 dpi resolutions (interpolated).

The speed at which it scans is at an acceptable level and the images come out very clear. The USB version 2.0 and later version is supported by DS-820W and has easy and built-in connectivity solution to old and modern PC as well. It can scan wirelessly direct to your tablet and smartphone for complete office autonomy.

The DS-820W portable scanner supports the standard drivers namely TWAIN and SANE (2) to help enable easy integration with Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems. It is a digital portable scanner that is easy to operate and is powered by USB.

DS-820W can scan documents as large as 8.5″ wide × 32″ long. For the maximum sized document, printability has given an extra feature to the real user.

In this portable wireless scanner, a new advanced sensor has been introduced namely dual linear color contact image sensor (CMOS CIS) which helps provide high-quality images with blazing speed and with accuracy.

The thickness of the paper is supported here is 16 lb. to 28 lb. (23.68 – 41.44 gsm). It can easily print the desktop document and business card management, OCR, and receipt management programs..

Features for Productivity

There is no duplex scanning system available in Brother DS-820W wireless scanner which does not provide both side print at a similar time.

Although it does not have an automated color detection ability it can print color pages very smoothly. However, this scanner also does not have any built-in auto-rotation facilities inside it. For the unavailability of the smart cropping technology, this device has no power to recognize the page whether it is A4 or A3. All of the pages have to be set manually..

Quality of images

Brother DS-820W has no advanced printing features such as auto crop & deskew for Paper Size. That is this scanner cannot align a document that is not straight. Besides, when printing a document or file which has a punch hole, it cannot recognize this and instead of filling that hole with the white mark, it goes with a spot. But, it has OCR support which means that it can create a searchable document from the image, most of the cases in PDF or Word..

Brother DS-820W accesories unboxing

Automatic Document Feeder Tray is one of those significant features which make a scanner an effective one. And DS-820W has no such feature enabled.

The design is very sleek measuring 12.1 in. x 1.6 in. x 2.1 in. (30.7 x 4 x 5.3 cm). It can easily scan documents of any printable size especially A3, A4, etc, photos, receipts, business, and embossed plastic cards, and more – from business card size up to 8.5″(W) x 32″(L). The height is perfect for the pro mobile user who needs a potent and effective scanner that will fit anywhere from small briefcase to office bags.

The bundled software suite includes Nuance PaperPort 12 SE (Windows), Presto! PageManager 9 (Mac), Presto! BizCard 6, DSmobileCapture, Button Manager V2 (Windows)..

Brother DS-820W driver, manual & brochure

Drivers are ready for different latest OS. To find the right driver for your PC please visit this link- https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=ds820w_all If you need complete installation guide, here is the link of the manual – https://download.brother.com/welcome/doc003210/cv_ds820w_eng_usr_h.pdf Still, you are looking for many technical details find the brochure from this link – https://www.brother-usa.com/-/media/brother/product-catalog-media/documents/2019/10/07/11/04/dsmobile-820w-brochure.pdf.

What do real users say?

Let see how much our happy customers like us online – “It was incredibly easy to set up right out of the box. I highly recommend this machine.” “Truly such a great buy, perfect for all of my needs.” <!–

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