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I don't regret buying it, but I'm not sure if I'd buy it again. No biggy. Then again, for the price, you can't really complain. Not exactly the best quality scans I've seen. In fact, I always run the scans through a filter in photoshop.
The glass drops down on the scanning mechanism, causing it to get stuck, in addition to dirt getting inside. It is not put together with common fasteners that would make it easy to take apart and repair. Sometimes I turn the unit upside down to scan. Do not use this scanner for scanning books. The glass is attached with double-stick tape and came lose on my scanner.
The reviews said it was a bit slow and was short some buttons so I had a little concern. If you need the extra size of an A3 scanner this is the machine.
and goes up from there. Next one up starts at over $1000.
I needed a large image flatbed scanner since IBM decided not to update the driver on their machine to work with XP. It does an excellent job.
I commend Mustek for filling this "hole" in retail personal scanner products that none of the other manufacturers seem to have considered. I lucked out and found this one through considerable research at stores and on line.
Haven't missed a single button, it's faster than the IBM I had before and the Twain interface is very user friendly.
Best advice is to just go to the Mustek website and download the appropriate driver for your system. The perfect tool for scanning large scale documents, and the price is unbeatable. It turns the image a shade of gray. Beneath the lid of the scanner is a black cushion, which can be bad for scanning documents that are a bit transparent. Three minor complaints: At a higher resolution the scanning process can take a few minutes to warm up, preview, and final scan. Installation was a bit tricky but didn't take nearly as much time as previous reviewers have mentioned.
You can get better scans using a paint program that you can change scan settings (I use Paint shop pro), but the scans take MUCH longer. I didn't push it until it fully crashed.
(I was using WindowsXP on a 2 year old laptop with 1GB of memory)All in all, for what I needed to do this scanner serves my purpose well enough since I'm just using it scan in pictures to run a slideshow of tattoo designs, and the color on those pics don't need to be dead-on. Very easily fixed if you shut down and restart the program.
Well the previous reviews were pretty much on target with this scanner. After I scanned 25 pages or so, the program responded much slower.
If you're looking to do a lot of scans and need them to be exact, you might want to go with another model if you can afford it. It DOES scan extremely light, especially on the leading edge of the page, with unbalanced contrast if you use it's own software.
I ended up using their software and corrected the pictures in Paint Shop.And their software does seem to have some sort of memory leak.
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