Brother ImageCenter ADS-2800W Wireless Document Scanner for Home & Office Use

Lisa Culverwell: I'm used to a Cannon scanner - from there I could do everything I needed to do with ease and in only a couple of steps. This one, although it's good, it takes a lot more steps to get everything done. They need to simplify everything... then it would be perfect.

United States on Aug 14, 2023

Alex D'Amico: Good product

Canada on Aug 14, 2023

Nicolas: Nous apprécions sa qualité, sa simplicité d’utilisation et toutes ses fonctionnalités

Canada on Jun 10, 2023

ETECHSS TECNOLOGIA, SOLUCOES E SERVICOS S.A: Gostamos, está atendendo a demanda que precisamos.

Brazil on Jun 02, 2022

Andre: Very easy to use, software was straight forward to install from website and register. Has some paper jams when paper is not exactly perfectly set or straight, but easy enough to deal with. Good and fast scans, definitely great to have if you have lots of scanning to do.

Canada on Mar 23, 2022

Gerry: Very impressed by the fast shipment, arriving within 4 days! Product meets and exceeds expectations. I do all my scanning from custom links I've created in the Brother app on my desktop (simplex, duplex, colour, etc), and save all my pdf's in searchable text mode. Since this works so well and the machine is small enough that I can keep beside me on my desk, I haven't bothered to configure shortcuts on the actual scanner unit. The scans are quick, including colour. Extra time is required for processing by the computer to make the pdf's searchable. Long 2" cashier receipts scan well too, although because the paper is so thin, they tend to move out of alignment in the document tray as they are being pulled through the scanner. The auto deskew feature works great to straighten these scans. Scanning photos as TIFF's look grainy compared to scanning them as PDF's or other graphic formats - haven't played with it enough to figure out why. Scanner has the option to select Multifeed detection which shows up as a paper jamb. This requires manual paper removal and then starting the scan process again on those remaining pages (not automated to correct on its own like the more expensive...

Canada on Dec 27, 2020

Michael: My wife and I bought this to replace the scanner that was on one of those cheap little all-in-one deals. You know the kind: It has a scanner on the top that accepts a single (one-sided) page at a time and really works best for scanning photos ... not documents. It died, and so we started shopping for a replacement.

See, the problem is that we scan a _LOT_ of documents. We homeschool our (three) children and I'm a big IT Geek (a programmer) meaning I like having all of my paper documents backed up on my (very nice, and very expensive) server.

Scanning has always been a real pain and a chore for us. One side of one sheet of paper at a time. Moreover, we had to drag out a USB Key so that we could scan each document to it, then move that to one of our PCs so that we could pull the document off of the USB Key and move it onto the server. A real chore that was super time consuming because of all of the manual intervention involved.

This scanner has absolutely everything that I wanted:
1. It is WiFi Capable (and offers manual configuration instead of only WPS - this is a real gem, as I don't use a store-bought router, and my Ubiquiti Access Point absolutely does...

United States on Mar 29, 2019

Mitchell F: The Brother ImageCenter ADS-2800W is a good, reliable wireless scanner with a few minor drawbacks. I have now been using the printer for several weeks with a reasonably consistent and significant scanning workload each week. For clarifications on my environment:
- I am using this device on my iMac Retina 5K late 2014 model running macOS High Sierra
- I am using the latest available version of Brother's scanning software, Brother iPrint and Scan (27-Oct-2017)
- I have updated the scanner's firmware to the latest version (01-Feb-2018)

Here is my feedback from my use experience:

PROS
1) Fast -- for the first seven pages
2) Excellent output quality
3) Software is reasonably modern and simple to use
4) Wireless (Wi-Fi) scanning is flawless
5) Exporting documents into other applications is pretty straightforward
6) Works on a wide variety of source documents for scanning
7) Scanner is PARTICULARLY good at scanning VERY LONG paper items/receipts

CONS
A) After seven pages, the scanner slows down SIGNIFICANTLY
B) Scanner cannot be used to scan directly into software like Acrobat, Office, etc. (*)
C) Scanner software (Brother...

United States on Mar 26, 2018