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Mustek ScanExpress A3 USB 1200 Pro Flatbed scanner
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$289.28
$154.69
$154.69
Average Customer Rating
4 out of 5 |
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Product Details
Brand: MustekModel: A3 USB 1200 Pro
UPC: 748011223512
Product Code: SEA3USB1200PRO
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A Dream Come True…
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
…if you hate spending money as much as I do. Probably the best A3 scanner around is the Epson 10000XL, but the price is brutal at $2K+; buy it if you can often make money scanning, if you need to scan oversize transparencies, or if you are hiring someone to do your scanning and you don’t have time to continuously monitor their output. If you are willing to work a little more slowly and take a little more trouble, you can get professional-quality scans from the ScanExpress, and you’ll have enough money left over to buy the NAS server you’ll need to store the gigantic files high-resolution scanning creates.
To start, you shouldn’t buy this scanner unless you feel comfortable fiddling around a little bit to get it to work right. For example, my Vista computer didn’t want to see it at first, so I installed all of the software on the CD (not just the drivers), and rebooted a couple of times, and eventually the scanner made itself known. Cheap scanners tend to skimp on their optics, so their depth of field isn’t all it might be. My letter-sized Epson, a $500 scanner, makes one beautiful scan after another of wavy watercolors, but my older Mustek A3 would gray the paper where it bulged away from the glass, and the image would be noticeably out of focus in those regions. Solution: store the watercolor paintings under heavy weights so that they flatten out–weighting the scanner lid won’t work with Mustek A3 scanners because the bed is more flexible than one would expect; it bends under weight and grinds against the light bar. Learn about setting black point, white point, gamma, and unsharp masking in Photoshop, and practice until you can get your scans to consistently look right.
This scanner sounds like an old Chrysler that won’t start, but I have been getting impressively good images from it, and it is much more deluxe than the older ScanExpress A3 I bought three or four years ago. I bought my first Mustek scanner, which looked like a window-washing squeegee with a wire coming out of the handle, for Windows 3.1, so the company has been around a while.
A big $150.00 TURD!
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
I purchased this thinking it would be a great product but when I hooked it up it didn’t work at all with any of my three computers (XP, Vista, Win7). It did manage to turn on, that was that. The manufacturer website is absolutely useless and outdated with drivers available only for Vista, but to no avail since it didn’t work anyway. I was really disappointed too because the A3 scanning capability is exactly what I need for my floorplans. As a result, I continued my search and managed to find an all-in-one with an A3 scanner made by Brother. It cost me twice as much but it works great and is well worth it. If I could give this product zero stars out of five I would.
You get what you pay for!
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
Very economical, and does a good job when it has a mind to. We’ve had ours for probably ten years, and its time is up. Too slow, too many inexplicable crashes, too many instances of it failing to save images to the software, too many pictures with razor-thin lines and other weird effects. It’s always been painfully slow, and the 1200dpi resolution has become an issue, but the other problems only began cropping up as photo software was installed or updated. It does not seem to like Adobe Photoshop 4.0 at all.
Best Value For The Bucks!!
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I signed on to find a large format scanner and was surprised to find that I already have the best deal going. I am on the second Mustek scanner after I broke the first (this was due to my negligence). I scan items to post on a website for sale, so they do not have to be perfect, but clear enough to see details,etc. I initially purchased 2 of these because they were such a good price, and I certainly don’t regret that decision; this scanner is worth the money and more. Looking at prices for large format scanners, you will not find a better deal, and this scanner does hold up as I have had mine for some time now. I scan fashion-related items- large magazines,etc.- and have used it to scan various sized objects and it has handled them all. After reading the other reviews, I won’t be looking again until something happens to this scanner, at which time, I will just buy another Mustek (for that matter, I may buy another now to have as a backup; at this price, you can afford it).
Yes! My tiling days are over! (mostly)
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
A friend just put out a question about scanners, which prompted me to remember to review this one. I was recommended to this little guy by a friend who purchased one and recommended it then to me. I appreciate personal recommendations, so I went with the Mustek.
In a nutshell, it’s great. The entire base is not-much-larger than the 11×17 scanning area, so it doesn’t take up much more desk space than that. The scans are good, the warmup time and response are fast, and it’s compatible with my MacBookPro (I’m running Leopard OSX 10.5.4 though, not Snow Leopard, so I can’t testify to it’s functioning with any other OS). It has no preset buttons on the scanner itself, but I never really used them, so that didn’t bother me.
My only complaint – and it’s not even a complaint, because, hey, it works great now – was the less-than-ideal scanning interface. I still haven’t necessarily figured out the BEST way to scan, but the dance I ended up doing was this:
Open the Application “Image Capture” > Devices > Browse Devices… > hit the “Use TWAIN UI” button next to the scanner, and you’re up. You can, from there, automate your scans to open in Photoshop, etc. easily. I guess my only real complaint was that I had to figure that out by myself, because the included-instructions are rather limited.
Seriously though: where else are you going to find an 11 x 17 flatbed for this price? It’s an issue for artists with limited wallets (read: most artists). This little workhorse gives me good quality scans quickly, and I paid less than $200 for an 11 x 17″ scanner. Sweet. I love not having to tile most of my work in Photoshop anymore. Thanks, Mustek.