HP ScanJet 5590 Digital FlatBed Scanner

The perfect addition to a home office. The multisheet duplex scanner is as easy as load the sheet feeder and push the scan button. Reduces the paper work clutter in my home office everyday. I just scan it then shred it

I can't believe HP made this pathetic product. Every 5th paper jams with the automatic document feeder. I should have done my homework on Google, which has plenty of nightmare stories about this product. I returned this product and bought a printer/scanner combo with an auto document feeder. It works great and cost about 60% less. Ironically, it is also an HP product.

This is really not a horrible product. HP claims on its site that this scanner is compatible with Mac OSX 10.6 Not until after I got the scanner and tried to download the software that I discovered HP did not plan to release 10.6 software til the coming spring. Besides that i'm sure it works great with other computers...The duplex is really truly slow... unlike other duplex scanners that scan both sides of the page at the same time, this scanner scans one side, then flips the page around, scans the other side, flips it around AGAIN to spit it back out the other end....quality was decent, scans were typically straight, and clear...file sizes were larger than normal, but that was HP's software... Instead I decided to use my brother All in one laser copy fax to scan everything in using the Automatic Document Feeder....It was only $99 compared to HP's $259, its faster, and produces smaller PDF sizes....PLUS...works PERFECTLY with Mac OSX 10.6-

Nice piece of hardware for the price, but no tech support whatsoever to correct problems:

1. Five buttons on front have no labels. Either that or the back lighting doesn't work.
2. Scan software insists on appending sequence numbers to file names with no way to shut off.
3. Typical software for a hardware company: geeky and hard to figure out.

This replaced an older scanner. Works great and easy to install. The two sided feature is an added bonus from older model.