On seeing this "Plug & Scan" scanner at £60 in our local copmuter shop, I bought it on impulse for our office. We'd previously had an HP Scanner, which did nothing but crash the computer it was on and could not be moved about very easily.
Now I don't know the ins and outs of scanners, but I know they're not all £60 and of good a quality as this one.
Mustek are not very well known and don't have the distribution of the HP / Lexmark / Epsons of this world.
I can say though that we have had no problems whatsoever with this scanner. Plug it into the printer port (& you can route the printer through the scanner too), install the software and you're away, easy as pie.
So what are the specs??!!
It's a colour flatbed scanner which can scan from 100dpi up to 19200dpi (not recommended!!). It's lightweight (and the beauty of it is that it can be transferred from one machine to another. Our old scanner needed a chip installing in the computer but this one doesn't need that.)
The scanning area easily accomadates A4, it's about 21cm * 30cm.
The scanner itself is slightly larger, very slim and doesn't take up too much room. Longer cables would have been nicer though. It's colour is white.
Scanning
To scan, either use the program supplied or your normal photo editing program (PSP in our case)
You choose the dpi level (sliding scale of 100 - 19200 dpi and custom levels), tell the computer some info about the image.
Normally, you'll preview the image (takes about 15 secs for a photo, 30 seconds for a piece of A4) and about the same to scan it in at 100dpi and more for increased dpi.
Installation
Installation is very straightforward and took me about 3 minutes in total.
I haven't seen this printer in many other places, though if you can hunt it down, I'd thoroughly recommend it for office or home.
Whether you can buy one online or not I don't know, I couldn't see it on the website, maybe worth checking out
It's amazing that these days you can get a well spec'd Scanner for such a low amount - and a big choice too. I bought my Flatbed 18 months ago for around £75 and that was a bargain, because all but the most basic and 'bog standard' ones were £100 plus!
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02.04.2001 16:11
It's amazing that these days you can get a well spec'd Scanner for such a low amount - and a big choice too. I bought my Flatbed 18 months ago for around £75 and that was a bargain, because all but the most basic and 'bog standard' ones were £100 plus!