The high price of the Ricoh Aficio IS01 means that it has poorest Value for Money score out of the group of five scanners reviewed in this feature, even when a healthy individual feature score is allowed for its built-in document feeder. Price again, this time the relatively low price of the Microtek ScanMaker 6400 XL, gives it the biggest Value for Money score by a very healthy margin. This chart shows our assessment of the relative value for money for each of the products in this review.
Longer bars represent better value for money.
Products are sorted by price, with the highest price at the top. Where products have the same price, they are shown in alphabetical order. The resulting raw VFM scores are then made relative to the lowest-scoring product. To use the graph, first see which products fall within your chosen price range, by looking at the column of prices on the right. The best value product within that range is then the one with the longest bar.