Very slow scanner it takes 2 hours to scan 40 pages! How can I increase scan speed

Dear
Pl. do scan setting, lower the resolution better the speed also scan area of the document may help the speed of scan.
Thanks.

Change the scan resolution to 200 dots per inch (200 dpi). If 300 it tajes a few seconds. If 1200 dpi, it may take really long.

scan at a lower resolution .
Maybe increase virtual memory of p.c. in Windows o/s

The scanner creates a Raster Image and if it is grey or color, the size is big. After a few images are scanned, the 'buffer' inside the scanner is full. It may take more time to process the scanned image by the scanner if it is 24 bit color. The image is sent to the computer Harddisk and if the disk is full or if it had not been defragged for a long time, the sectors may not be contiguous for speedy writing, This will slow up the scanning. Ensure the disk has large space. 'Scan ahead' slows down scanning speed. (Without scan ahead, the next page is fed only after processing, whereas when selected, just after the previous page is scanned, the scanner start the next one)
S. Mohan, India, Chennai

Color scan files will be huge and it will take quite a time to process. Ensure that there is enough disk space in the computer to speed up the scanning.
S. Mohan, India

Scanners speed is influenced by the quality chosen in document productions. Selecting impressionful color saturation requires time to produce results. Use the menu buttons on the scanner to select least saturated color pixels.

Your hard disk must be almost full. Direct the scanning software to send data to a hard Disk location where you have enough space.
S. Mohan, India

It looks the problem is with your Computer. Do you have enough disk space? Run 1) Scandisk and 2)Defragmenter and check if it is better. Do you have enough Video RAM? Try and increase using the BIOS.

S. Mohan, Chennai, India

did you change your scan resoulution? The quality of your scans will determine how slow it will pass through. another thing to check is weather it is scanning both sides, another option in your scanner properties.

The scanners rated speed is for black and white all error correction turned off. As soon as you start doing 24bit colour or grayscale or up the dpi the scanner will start scanning more slowly. I personally get abpout 60ppm with my error correction on black and white 200dpi. (300 dpi scans just as fast although 400dpi will slow down).