Advantages: Spec for price Disadvantages: Its apparent design fault
...calls (to no avail) to Microtek themselves, and some expense on my part, Computerbench replaced the scanner.
Installation was quite straightforward; the instructions were pretty clear, although - again a Mac problem, though I'm not sure if some Microsoft OS's may be similarly left out on the software CD - I had to pay an extra £2.99 in order to download the driver for OSX, which was by no means a new OS at that point. The scanning software supplied ... ...4.0 (for Windows) and Adobe Photoshop 5.0 (for Mac). Since I already had a newer version of PS installed, this raised further questions about the up-to-dateness of the machine! Also enclosed was a freebie virus scanner called Titanium - again, only for PCs - with a 'win a mouse' competition included.
All appeared fine with the third scanner and I enjoyed several months of almost problem-free use. I say 'almost problem-free' because I'm used to minor ...
amason27 07.07.2005 (10.08.2005)
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