RICOH fi-8040 Office & Desktop Document, Receipt, ID Card Scanner

I've used this for multiple years now on a daily basis. Other than some software glitches, this has been an outstanding machine.

Love these scanners. I’ve used them for years. They are almost bulletproof. They cost a little more but they last a really long time.

Scanner works great - it replaced a similar previous Ricoh/Fujitsu scanner after 10 years. Their applications only have full support for Windows, and driver-only support on MacOS/Linux

Durable and best to use only 10 cards at a time, easy to use and set up

Good for the Price. Very fast. Would buy it again.

Purchased this after seeing a review on Youtube regarding the ease of use with scanning cards in top loaders, semi rigids, and even in penny sleeves. It works... Sometimes... It jams about 75 of the time. And when it does go through, your top loaders & card savers will get scratched. Tried running some penny sleeved cards through it and sometimes it would work, but other times it would get stuck on a penny sleeve and ruin the sleeve, sometimes the card. Mind you I made sure to test with junk cards. Glad I did. Another issue I had is, when the cards finally scanned, sometimes they would come out slightly distorted or over stretched. See the pictures attached. None of these pics have been modified by me. This was the results I got from the scanner. Lastly, if you're going to scan a Prizm or Chrome card, they will come out VERY dark. Again see attached pics. The software was not the best, very clunky. But it is the free version. They do have a premium paid version which I'm sure is more intuitive. I'm back to taking photos in a well-lit area. I get much better results, but it is time consuming.

We purchased this scanner to replace our ScanSnap ix500. That scanner is still running fine, but we wanted to let users directly email scans to themselves. After fiddling with settings for a couple of weeks we learned today from Level 2 tech support at Ricoh that the fi-8040 is not compatible with Office365 email. They have a feature request on file, but no ETA. We are trying another approach (using an email relay setup) but it is frustrating that the SMTP setup just doesn't work with one of the main business email platforms. I would love to describe the scan quality, speed, paper handling aspects, but we haven't made it that far yet. Also, you can either configure it to operate without a server or you can configure it be connected to a PC, but not both.

This was a gift and it’s very loved! Super easy to use and great quality scans. Especially love the auto document feeder!