Brother DS-940DW Duplex and Wireless Compact Mobile Document Scanner

Good desktop printer
The Brother DS-940DW is a great little scanner for anyone who needs something portable and easy to use. It’s lightweight, compact, and fits easily in a bag, making it perfect for traveling or small workspaces. The duplex scanning feature is super handy since it scans both sides of a document at once, and the wireless connectivity means no fumbling with cords—you can scan straight to your phone or computer. The built-in battery is a big plus, letting you use it anywhere without needing to be plugged in. It handles receipts, documents, and even photos really well, with sharp and clear results. The only downsides are that you have to feed pages in manually, and the initial setup can take a little patience. Overall, it’s a solid choice for light scanning needs and super convenient for anyone on the move.

This thing is AMAZING .. use it with WAVE accounting and it essentially works flawlessly
What I like…The footprint of this device is amazing. Even if you do not travel it just compliments the desk and it is not bulky. Many complain of no multi document feeder but this is not what this device is for. Scans are great .. this is not for high rez photos .. it is for documents and receipts and it does that with a great deal of clarity. The software allows you to set up one touch buttons for various types of scans that you may want to do.What I did not like…The documentation for connecting this thing to WIFI is nothing short of terrible. If you have a mesh system like ORBI that does not allow you to separate 2.4 and 5ghz bands this will not connect during setup. After a ton of $%^$%^&#ing around I discovered the bottom of the unit has a ton of info including s/w registration numbers. The key is the hotspot infrastructure wifi .. basically you connect to that with you phone or other then open the management page from the device .. I believe it is 192.168.118.1 .. all of the passwords you need are printed on the bottom of the unit. Once you get in you can configure the SSID and PW for your mesh wireless. After configuration the unit works fine on mesh. I do not know why setup can’t find the wireless but if you manually set it using the method above you will have success.lastly .. it appears (not 100% on this yet) that it will only charge the onboard battery with the USB cable connected to a computer. Connecting it to a power adapter does power the unit but does not appear to charge the battery. Not sure why this would be but, in any case, I do not travel with my device and if I did, I guess I just have to plug it into a pc to charge it.The wifi setup is the sole reason for 4 stars for this device.

It’s a portable, battery powered scanner. It does exactly what it says it does, although I noticed a prior review that mentioned that the scanner can’t connect to existing wifi networks, so I wanted to correct that.- The scanner DOES support this type of connection through its “infrastructure mode” setting. If you look up the model number and “infrastructure mode”, you should be able to find instructions to set it up in the online owner’s manual (not sure about the physical manual). Long story short, you need to connect to the scanner’s network, then access the scanner’s direct IP address (should be 192.168.118.1), log into the web interface, and set it up in there. It’s not a desktop driver setting. I set it up to use both infrastructure and direct wifi connections, so I can still connect to the scanner directly if I’m not connected to the wifi network that I set up.- In case you missed it, max DPI is 1200×1200. Desktop driver supports 300x, 400x, 600x, and 1200x. I think it supports 100x and 200x, but I don’t use those.- The DSD… thing, is just a piece of plastic. Stays in place well when closed, but is loose when open. It also directs the output upward at a 90 degree angle, bend is roughly 3/8 of an inch or so. DO NOT USE this “feature” for items that you don’t want bent!- For scanning things thicker than paper, the scanner can reportedly handle up to 48 pt thickness. I’ve been scanning 35pt cards (mtg, yugioh, as well as some sports cards) with thin plastic sleeves over them without issue; rollers are rubber with enough pressure to move the card with plastic through the scanner without damaging the card features. I don’t expect that any thicker will be doable though. Definitely not a graded slab, that’s for sure.- Scanner is designed to accept documents from the left side; there is a feed sensor about an inch from the left side that is used to detect the presence of things to scan.- No tray for multi-document feeds; this scanner is only designed to scan one item at a time.- Duplex scanning happens all at once; no need for the document being scanned to run through the machine backwards or anything like that.- Even with all image processing turned off, I noticed that the machine has some trouble with detecting where a document starts in the case where the document is covered in plastic (like the aforementioned cards). I’ve got it mostly dialed in now, but originally it would either overscan slightly or underscan slightly, maybe by a margin of +- 1mm? Not a problem for regular paper documents but for scanning details of cards sometimes it misses the card edges.- The web interface for the scanner is surprisingly capable. It’s about what you’d expect from a printer/scanner interface, but there are some features that I wouldn’t expect to see in a consumer scanner that are nice-to-haves for someone with more tech know-how.Overly, very satisfied with this purchase.

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