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At the time, Staples were having a sale and the Mustek 600 CP was a good price, £44.94. I had heard of Mustek's reputation for quality and reliability and thought this to be a bargain.
On getting my brand new, shiny scanner home it was a doddle to set up and configure, just follow the ... Read review
Advantages: Pocket friendly price tag Disadvantages: Not the fastest scanner in the world
...having a sale and the Mustek 600 CP was a good price, £44.94. I had heard of Mustek's reputation for quality and reliability and thought this to be a bargain.
On getting my brand new, shiny scanner home it was a doddle to set up and configure, just follow the instructions and you're there. Even the supplied software was easy to install - Textbridge and iPhoto Plus. The installation guide booklet is handy and gives step-by-step instructions ... ...
To summerise, the Mustek 600 CP is an adequete scanner for most uses. It is affordable to most people and it does a fairly good job of it. If you can reach a little deeper into your pockets, you may want to spend a little more for a higher resolution USB scanner, if not, this one will do the job. ... more
It was my aproaching my birthday and I was asked what I wanted. "A digital camera" I replied with glee, only to be told that they were too expensive - think of something else. I decided a scanner would be a good idea, I could scan in all those old photos and e-mail them to everyone I know.
At the time, Staples were having a sale and the Mustek 600 CP was a good price, £44.94. I had heard of Mustek's reputation for quality and reliability and thought this to be a bargain.
On getting my brand new, shiny scanner home it was a doddle to set up and configure, just follow the instructions and you're there. Even the supplied software was easy to install - Textbridge and iPhoto Plus. The installation guide booklet is handy and gives step-by-step instructions on how to do everything from connecting the parrallel cables to the actual scanning - in no less than 6 languages.
The Scan Dialog Box allows the user to run the scanner software each time the lid is opened, alternatively, this feature can be disabled. The options available in the Direct Scan Box are:- Scan, Copy (Photocopies), Fax, E-Mail and Optical Character Recognition (OCR). These options should cover nearly everything you will need to do with any scanner. This sounds like an all singing, all dancing machine for the price. With the Twain drivers installed, integration into your graphics software (Photshop, Paintshop Pro, etc...) is a breeze and much easier to use when you just want to scan a picture, modify it and save it to your hard drive.
The scanned images aren't perfect, but what do you expect for that price? They are plenty good enough for most uses though and unless you are planning to scan photographs and make enlarged copies of them on photographic paper, this scanner will do just fine.
But beware, there is a down side...
The Downside... Textbridge (OCR) is not perfect by any means. OCR is still quite new and although some software is better than others, this one does have many problems in recognising many fonts and special characters. I have spent many hours correcting characters that were not read properly. The Copy option must be set up correctly for it to produce an excact copy, this may be different for your settings and your printer but I had many "trial and error" pages before I got it right. The scans are slow compared with some of the newer scanners available these days, especially the USB versions, when you are watching the progress bar, it doesn't seem to move - a bit like "a watched kettle never boils". The 300 x 600 dpi (9600 x 9600 dpi - through software interpolation) could well be all you need but don't expect to scan in a 5" x 3" photo and expect to enlarge it to A3 for printing perfectly - there aren't many scanners which will do this anyway.
The 600 CP is a budget scanner for people who can't afford to buy a "top of the line" one. As with all things today, you get what you pay for.
To summerise, the Mustek 600 CP is an adequete scanner for most uses. It is affordable to most people and it does a fairly good job of it. If you can reach a little deeper into your pockets, you may want to spend a little more for a higher resolution USB scanner, if not, this one will do the job.
Advantages: Cheap and reliable, good photo quality. Disadvantages: Limited Photo editing software.
The Mustek 600 cp is the only scanner I have owned, not that it is the only scanner I have tried. I have tried many, but I keep sticking with my 600 cp. The main reason is Quality of picture, especially for the web, setting the resolution to 700 rather than the default 300. The scanning software interacts well with all other programs, even Macromedia, but I tend not to use the editing package that comes with it, as it is a little limited but that ...
fubb 01.12.2000
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Advantages: Cheap, Reliable, Easy to use Disadvantages: old technology, not as fancy as newer models
We were given a Mustek 600 CP by my father in law when he upgraded his system. Who would want outdated hardware?
I would simply say that this scaner is good for what it is, cheap and easy to use.
Its picture quality is good, and it is easy to use.
The software makes life simply, all you need to do is lift the scanner open and the memory resident software goes into action.
I can be used instead of a fax machine, or as a scanner, I have used it ...
denver.brown 11.07.2000
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Advantages: good quality, fast, cheap Disadvantages: very average software, high resolution causes system crashes
Mustek 600 CPs scanners are a very good buy. I bought mine for less than £30 and it was worth every penny. The scan quality is excellent and it is fast and easy to use.
It scans photos and postcards very, very well but it tends to struggle with magazines and newspapers which reflects the quality of these publications. It takes typically two to three minutes to scan a photograph in 600 dpi. This quality setting gives crystal clear scans at the same ... ...required it may need a higher quality setting which can cause crashes.
You would be well advised to simply download the drivers from Mustek.com rather than use the software CD, as the scans work better and you can choose to use only Paint Shop Pro or similar for your image editing.
Beware users of Windows ME and 2000, the CD software doesn't work, however the drivers from Mustek.com are good. ...
neilmoore67 23.12.2000
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I bought a Mustek 600CP and I have had nothing but pleasure from it. The software was straightforward to install, the scanner plugged in and played, and it has worked well since. The quality of the scans is excellent - and the price of this scanner was remarkably cheap. I use the scanner to scan in photographs, and graphics and it works well on both. The photographs are really excellent and I use them on my web site. The software even enables you ... ...easy to do and very effective. The only problem is finding a printer of high enough quality to allow you to print out all these great scans now sitting on my machine. But then again, it is easier just to email them around or put them up on a website instead. ...
password 15.07.2000
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