Advantages: Good looks, nice price Disadvantages: A bit slow
The UMAX AstraSlim 1200 SE is quite a fashionable scanner, which can be brought on a budget for around £35. I decided to buy one when I found out or suddenly became aware of how useful owning a scanner is. But, as usual, I was on a budget, and gave myself the task of buying a scanner which, is not only inexpensive but also is of good quality . After looking through the catalogues, I stumbled across this scanner. The package looked good and it was ... ...A little information on the UMAX then:
Speed: 6 out of 10---The scanner’s speed is quite slow, but if you are only going to use it for general things, this shouldn’t be a problem. Colour Sensitivity: 7 out of 10--- Colour sensitivity is good for the scanner; it produces some quality scans of paper with many different colours on them.
Resolution: 7 out of 10--- The resolution of the scanner is of a good standard, and again it is O.K for general ...
master-ryan 27.10.2004
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Advantages: reliable, durable and cheap Disadvantages: Hand-writing recognition not that great.
...and finally decided on the UMAX Astraslim SE.
At first I did not expect much from this scanner as it was less than £40 to buy but I must admit I was pleasantly surprised to find it was such a good investment. Along with it's scanning capabilities this piece of hardware also comes with a photocopier (direct image to printer), e-mail function which allows you to avoid the hassle of saving to the hard-drive in the correct format then having to find ... ...also comes with a handwriting recognition option and some limited recognition software. (textbridge and ABBYY)
Other software included with the scanner is the Ulead photo express suite. This is a trial version but it has no time limit on it. It offers all of the basic features which are on the full version and it is actually quite good. Using this software you can edit photos with ease by cropping, rotating, changing the contrast and the brightness ...
katiemacf 22.07.2004 (24.07.2004)
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