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Patrons seem to be REALLY pleased and impressed with what the KIC can do and I've received a lot of positive feedback from all of these groups. They are most impressed with the ability to save in color,  size of the scanning bed, the automatic cropping and separating of pages, and the various file formats that the KIC can save in.  JPG is primarily used for images to use in PowerPoints or papers (photos, charts, text snippets, etc.). Searchable PDF is used primarily for saving an article, book sections, etc. for research which also allows the ability to copy and paste lines of text into a document, highlighting, searching for words within Acrobat, etc. Students and faculty have also used it for copying notes to distribute. Others like the fact that the system is environmentally "green" when compared with using copy machines, that they can save only the sections they want from documents, etc.   We've also had unique uses of the KIC such as a Music Professor scanning sheet music from a journal into a pdf document and then using that with a program on his Mac which interprets the scanned pdf and can actually play the music from that. Our EReserve department has made use of it. It has also come in handy for Special Collections since it can handle large format items and since it scans materials face up there is less chance of damaging collection items. Most recently, they digitized 2 very fragile scrapbooks in one of our Rare Books & Manuscripts Collections to allow for patron research/viewing without additional wear and tear on the original.