Ricoh FI-70F Flatbed scanner 600 x 600 DPI A6 Black

Product Overview

AI-generated summary

The Ricoh FI-70F is the sort of scanner you buy when you’ve got a very specific “day-to-day hassle” and you want it gone. It’s aimed at A6 flatbed work—think forms, IDs, small documents, and anything that doesn’t scan cleanly through a sheet feeder. In practice, flatbeds like this tend to be more forgiving with odd-sized paper, thicker stock, and jobs where you need consistent, repeatable captures. If your team regularly scans small originals (rather than lots of loose pages), the £244.90 ex-VAT feels fairly reasonable because you’re paying for the right tool, not marketing.

That said, I wouldn’t buy it if your workload is high-volume document scanning. Flatbeds are slower and more manual than duplex document scanners, and if you’re scanning stacks of multi-page PDFs all day, you’ll start feeling the time cost quickly. Also, if you need lots of automated workflows (heavy batch scanning, high throughput, feeding mixed paper types), this isn’t the obvious choice—there are better-value “workhorse” models for that. Bottom line: buy it if your business genuinely needs A6/smaller flatbed scanning; skip it if you’re mainly scanning big volumes of standard paper.