Decent quality scanner, good price, great selection of software .
Disadvantages:
Scanning speed is on the slow side .
Recommend to potential buyers:
no
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My old UMAX died on me and it was a great scanner. I decided to stay with UMAX, so i bought the Umax Astra 2000P, because I thought the quality would be the same as my first scanner. but i was WRONG.
They added more useless bells and whistles and made the actual scanning process take twice as long, but the scans weren't any better. Also the scanner hasn't worked since the second month after I bought it. which was a long time ago now.
For some reason it is not being recognized anymore by the computer. There is nothing wrong with the computer as everything else is working just fine. The blasted scanner is the problem. Now I have to take it AND my computer back to the place where I bought the scanner and have it serviced. This is a pain. I should have never gone with UMAX again.
The first scanner although it made nice scans, also screwed up my computer's POST I kept aborting start ups for weeks. It took forever to find out that it was a patch file that was needed from the UMAX download site. Why didn't UMAX contact me if they knew this was a problem? Why the hell did I ever fill out the registration form if not to be notified of a known problem with the equipment.
Will never buy their products again. Don't call me a fool if I make a mistake. Call me a fool if I make the same mistake twice!!
However if for some reason you do want to buy it you can buy it for around $70, about £40. from any decent computer shop.
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