Macintosh Production Scanning Performance

Mac Performance Limits (ipm)
b&w
200dpi 		b&w
300dpi 		gray
300dpi 		color
300dpi
1x G4@1.25gHz n/an/a26-478-16
1x G5@2.7gHz n/an/a3513-18
2x G5@2.7gHz n/an/a5027-31
1x Core2@1.83gHz n/an/a27-869-34
2x Core2@1.83gHz n/an/an/a18-72
Intel 4-Core n/an/an/a150-260
Intel 6 or More Cores n/an/an/a260+

Notes:

  • An entry of n/a indicates the ability to run all supported scanners at rated speed, including production scanners (fi-6670, fi-6770, fi-5900C, fi-5950 & fi-6800).
  • USB 2.0 is required to scan at rated speeds for gray or color with any of these scanners, and for black-and-white for the higher-end scanners. USB 1.1 does not have enough bandwdith and at 300dpi will limit speeds to less than 60 pages (or images) per minute for black-and-white and gray, less than 20 pages (or images) per minute for color.
  • For most scanning, a minimum of 1GB RAM is recommended. The software is tested to be functional for 300dpi color duplex scanning with as little as 512MB RAM, but this is not recommended. If you are planning on using a scanner's long-document scanning feature in color, you will probably want at least 2GB RAM.
  • Macs with G3 processors are still supported, but they are not able to get maximum performance from these scanners. The fastest G3 will not quite keep up with the 6130/6230 for black-and-white scanning. A G3-based Mac should scan 300dpi grayscale at about 5-10 pages (or images) per minute, and should scan 300dpi color at about 2-4 pages (or images) per minute.