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Placeholder for Raven scanners, Starfish Technologies, LLC

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==Anti-consumer practices==

~~Great Toshiba HW scanners, that used an Amazon cloud service to store and fax, email, or copy to other location. Huge paper and toner saver for businesses still using fax, like Healthcare.~~

~~Company goes under, likely due to cost and/or change in Amazon cloud service. They low~~-~~key notify customers in Summer 2023 at screen login that the cloud service will stop at end of 2023. During 2023 support becomes non-responsive.~~

~~Unfortunately~~, the fax ~~is now a brick~~, ~~since it’s~~ dependent on the ~~now, unavailable~~ cloud ~~for most functionality~~.

The company produced quality Toshiba HW scanners, that used an Amazon cloud service to store and fax, email, or copy to other location, that allowed for huge paper and toner saves for businesses still using fax, like Healthcare.

The company then went under, likely due to cost and/or change in Amazon cloud service. They notify customers in Summer 2023 at screen login that the cloud service will stop at end of 2023. During 2023 support becomes unresponsive.

This change causes the fax to become non-functional, as it was dependent on the cloud services.

Amazon ~~was still selling~~ in early 2024, but ~~seems to~~ have stopped.

They were still sold by Amazon in early 2024, but have seemingly since then stopped.

Reddit link to history, shady CEO, and people trying to get them working with other services and possibly other OS:https://www.reddit.com/r/RavenScanner/s/1pdYwz1Bqy

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 Placeholder for Raven scanners, Starfish Technologies, LLC
-in short:
+==Anti-consumer practices==
-Great Toshiba HW scanners, that used an Amazon cloud service to store and fax, email, or copy to other location. Huge paper and toner saver for businesses still using fax, like Healthcare.
-Company goes under, likely due to cost  and/or change in Amazon cloud service. They low-key notify customers in Summer 2023 at screen login that the cloud service will stop at end of 2023. During 2023 support becomes non-responsive.
-Unfortunately, the fax is now a brick, since it’s dependent on the now, unavailable cloud for most functionality.
+The company produced quality Toshiba HW scanners, that used an Amazon cloud service to store and fax, email, or copy to other location, that allowed for huge paper and toner saves for businesses still using fax, like Healthcare.
+The company then went under, likely due to cost  and/or change in Amazon cloud service. They notify customers in Summer 2023 at screen login that the cloud service will stop at end of 2023. During 2023 support becomes unresponsive.
+This change causes the fax to become non-functional, as it was dependent on the cloud services.
-Amazon was still selling in early 2024, but seems to have stopped.
+They were still sold by Amazon in early 2024, but have seemingly since then stopped.
 Reddit link to history, shady CEO, and people trying to get them working with other services and possibly other OS:https://www.reddit.com/r/RavenScanner/s/1pdYwz1Bqy