Bell and Howell Copiscan 8000 Plus Series Manual

C A S E S T U D Y
As Its Scanning Needs Grew,
CUNA Mutual Turned to
Another Bell & Howell Product,
the Copiscan®8000 Plus
Here’s how one loyal Bell & Howell customer met its expanding scanning needs. For five years, CUNA
Mutual Insurance Society used its trusty workhorse, the
Bell & Howell Copiscan 6338, to scan documents. But as
the giant Madison,Wis., insurer’s business surged by double
digits annually, it decided it needed a more powerful product
to meet its mounting volumes of work.
But CUNA Mutual didn’t want to hire additional staff or
sacrifice its traditional quality and accuracy of work. And, not
surprisingly, it wanted some insurance of its own — against
double feeds. It demanded that any upgraded system had to
prevent double feeds or detect them if they occurred. The
perfect system also had to be able to imprint a number
of documents before scanning and ensure that
everything was done the same day.
CUNA Mutual turned to Bell & Howell — and,
specifically to the Copiscan 8000 Plus Deluxe
Model (8080D). Bell & Howell had just begun
shipping the new high-end, high-volume
production scanner platform earlier in 2000.
CUNA Mutual wanted to see first hand how
the system would operate in its demanding
production environment, so Bell & Howell
provided it with the Copiscan 8080D
scanner on a trial basis.
After testing the scanner — developed to maximize a
customer’s productivity and ease of operation — CUNA
Mutual employees voiced their strong opinion.They
MOVING ON UP:
“With the reliability
of Bell & Howell’s
Copiscan 6338
system, our
confidence in the
Copiscan 8080D
was evident.
No other systems
met our needs
as well.”

understand premiums and the Copiscan 8080D
had all of the ones they required.A major plus
for the insurer was the scanner’s VirtualReScanTM
(VRS) capability. Its powerful combination of
hardware and software took the guesswork
out of scanner settings.This turnkey solution
allows scanner operators to work more efficiently,
while still producing superior results. That’s a
productivity booster.
CUNA Mutual employees also liked the
redesigned paper-feeding mechanism and exit
tray for mixed-batch scanning, the easy-to-learn
user controls, and the 80-page-per-minute
throughput. Buttoning down their vote were
three “one-touch” buttons on the Copiscan
8080D.The first button puts the scanner in
“clean” mode, which lets operators quickly
perform various cleaning routines. A second
button,“multifeed ignore”, bypasses the scanner’s
ultrasonic multifeed detection feature.This is
useful for capturing certain documents, such as
a document with a yellow sticky note attached,
and then continuing with batch scanning as
usual. The third button,“batch counter reset”
allows the operator to reset the scan count
with a single touch.
Just how pleased was CUNA Mutual? Here’s what
Jim Berry, the insurer’s distribution manager, says,
enthusiastically: “Big jobs that used to require
four people to oversee now require only one.
This really increases our overall productivity.”
And Berry adds that Bell & Howell’s system
continued to provide the fastest throughput,
less-operator intervention in the document-
feeding process, quality images, software
compatibility, and more scanning capacity than
did competitive models.“With the reliability of
Bell & Howell’s Copiscan 6338 system, our
confidence in the Copiscan 8080D was evident.
No other systems met our needs as well,”he says.
CASE STUDY
CUNA Mutual Turned to Copiscan®8000 Plus (con’t)
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