We were impressed with the VividPro II's ease of setup. Being a parallel port model, it plugged into the printer port and has a pass through port allowing you to plug your printer into the scanner so you don't lose access to your printer while scanning. Having an optical resolution of 600X1200 dpi and being a traditional CCD based scanner, we found the resulting scans better than expected. In fact, they were quite good on the whole. Speed was a problem but this shouldn't be that much of a problem for the economy minded.
Sacrifices have to be made somewhere.
We would have liked to see a document management package even in this admittedly low-end product. However, scans from the ColorPage-Vivid Pro II were a bit better than those we got from other, more expensive units. For example, it was able to reproduce the dark region of a photo that caused the other scanners problems. Even so, the image seemed a bit blurry, and stripes appeared on the photo, as if it was output from an inkjet printer. We also noticed a faint green tint.