Scanning the Canon CanoScan LiDE 20 - The LiDE Arrives
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A few short days after ordering the scanner it arrived. Here’s what the FedEx guy handed me.
After getting into my office with it, I noticed the box had sustained a bit of structural damage as seen below.
Nothing too serious, but with something that has moving parts, you can’t be too careful. That was the only sign of damage, and it looked less like an impact and more like it just got caught on something. Hoping for the best, I opened the box up to see how well Canon packs their scanners.
As you can see the packing was undamaged and the scanner is pretty well protected. There was actually an additional piece of cardboard on top that I removed to get a better look at the packaging. However the moving parts can be affected by a nice hard impact that might not hurt the foam. Here’s what came in the box.
A USB cord, the manual and warranty, a driver/software disc, a doughnut-looking stand, and of course the scanner itself, wrapped in a nice plastic bag with a couple of caution tags. One of those caution tags caught my eye immediately. It was pointing to something on the bottom of the scanner.
After moving the tag aside, I realized what’s there: it’s a switch to lock the internal mechanisms in place so that during shipment, or just general moving around, the innards wouldn’t be damaged by inadvertent impacts or shaking. Good thought! Seeing this gave me quite a bit of relief over the whole damaged box thing.
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