#DOXIE SCANNER INSTALL#
#DOXIE SCANNER SKIN#
#DOXIE SCANNER FULL#

Doxie can be set up to scan directly to a number of cloud services.

On my Mac, Doxie recognized that I had Adobe Reader, Preview, Evernote, and iPhoto installed, so it provided those apps as destinations for my newly-scanned files. Scans can also be saved to various applications. How easy is the scanning process? I'd like to give my Dad one of these, since he's continually sending me awful scans that he makes on his HP All-in-one printer. After the scan is complete, you can choose where to save it. You insert the document to be scanned and then push the pink button, either on the scanner or in the dialog seen above. If you choose the defaults, Doxie will scan photos in color at 300 dpi and documents in 200 dpi grayscale. You choose the type of scan to make - document or photo - and then set the resolution and color of the scan. Whirring ensues, and within about 30 seconds Doxie is ready to go. The Doxie software initially asks you to do a calibration, which involves putting a special piece of paper into the scanner face down and pushing the signature Doxie heart button. That's it - there's no power supply to plug in or to lug with you when traveling. Once the software is installed, you simply plug one end of the included USB cable into a powered USB hub or directly into your Mac.

That's not good practice, and the folks at Apparent should be sure to tell Mac users to drag the app file to their Application folder, then eject the disk image. dmg disk image file - unfortunately, there are no instructions to drag the heart-shaped Doxie icon to your Application folder, so many Mac newbies are going to just run the software from the disk image. The current version of the software, 1.0, was released earlier this week. Rather than include a CD, Doxie comes with instructions to download the latest version from the Doxie website.

#DOXIE SCANNER INSTALL#

To start scanning, you need to download and install the Doxie software. Just as you can't judge a book by its cover, you certainly can't judge Doxie by her girlish looks.

#DOXIE SCANNER SKIN#

Hopefully the company will also come out with an optional camo skin for Doxie. My personal choice would be either the wood grain, which would match my desk, or the zebra hide. There's also a nice little carrying bag that is thoughtfully heart-free.

#DOXIE SCANNER FULL#

Read on as I give this new entry to the portable scanner market a full workout, and then enter our giveaway to get a chance to win a Doxie for yourself. Fortunately, the company realizes that the pink hearts might not be acceptable to manly men, so the scanner comes with a choice of stick-on skins that provide it with more masculine zebra hide, wood grain, plain black, blue and white sky scape, Scottish tartan, and black-and-blue plaid appearances (see below). The hearts are in the dock when you have the Doxie software running, there's a pink heart over the 'i' in Doxie, there's a string of eight progressively smaller pink hearts along the front of the device, and to scan, you push a big button with a pink heart on it.Īpparent's product is a very capable product, despite the graphics which make it appear to be something designed for little girls. The dictionary defines 'doxy' as a lover or mistress, so it's not surprising that the new Doxie portable scanner from Apparent has pink hearts as a defining graphic feature.

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