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Summary: great product
Review: I've had hp scanner which was difficult to use. Then I had a microtek slimscan, and I thought it was perfect, but I upgraded so needed a new scanner. After looking around, for the money, I chose the Microtek 4800. It not only turned out to be easy to install, but much easier to use than the slimscan. Just got it, but I'm already happy with the ease of use and the results. I'm really impressed and pleased.
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Summary: Poor supply
Review: If you order this, be ready to wait a while.....a long while....llike until next year.....new technology might come out by then....then you can use it as a paper weight.
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Summary: Am furious!
Review: just when I really need the scanner....it just quit working and I have not been able to find a number to call anyone!! I have only had it less than one year too!
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Summary: Am furious!
Review: just when I really need the scanner....it just quit working and I have not been able to find a number to call anyone!! I have only had it less than one year too!
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Summary: Nice Scanner, Nice price
Review: Pretty versatile scanner, it looks cool too Silver lid with cool grooves and the button panel is cool plastic with silver pin-stripes which surround the five buttons to make your scanning tasks convenient: scan, photocopy, email, OCR and Web photo sharing. It does reflective (regular things like photos, typed or handwritten pages, etc.) and both positive and negative film with the Lightlid attachment.
The pros are that the software it comes with are pretty good, especially the interface of the Twain program Microtek Scanwizard which you can keep in either simple, easy mode or advanced mode or switch between the two interfaces as you like. The ABYY Fine Reader Sprint is pretty decent OCR Software at recognizing text; you can try and then purchase the full version of ABYY Fine Reader if you need that. If you are a digital camera aficionado or want to be, Adobe Photodeluxe does a decent job at editing your photos and Ulead Photo Explorer SE does a pretty good job at keeping you organized and the real version of Photo Explorer isn't that expensive if you need more options. Along with the online photo sharing and fairly decent scanning speeds, you get alot for your buck.
The cons are the name: ScanMaker 4800, you think it's a better or stepped up version of the 4700 but it's not, it's more of a stepped up version of the 3800. The 4700 is built much more sturdily and it has some better software that comes with it but you do pay for those "extras". The results from the film scanning with the Lightlid attachement are far from stellar, photos are better to scan.I also wish they made the Lightlid (the film-scanning add-on) with a little bit longer cord. Another con I think is that there is no off button (I unplug it to turn it off) or sleep button(low powered idle mode). Plus the scanner won't go into sleep mode unless you run Microtek ScanWizard each time you turn your computer on(this won't be a big problem if you always leave your computer on you just have to run ScanWizard once).
If you need a low-priced, lightweight scanner which is good at scanning photos with good 48-bit color depth and great DPI then this is the one for your home or small office.
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Summary: Scanner is great, support is just awful
Review: The Microtek 4800 scanner is a great buy, as long as it installs perfectly the first time. I have Windows XP, and one reason I chose this scanner is it's supposed to be compatible. Not hardly. Between two computer professionals, we couldn't get it to work. After several phone calls and numerous e-mails, we were told the problem was very complicated and we should use the premium (pay) support. This was before the 30 day free support period ended. We finally got into the registry and got it working. I do like the performance and features, just beware if you have XP or any unique setup...
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Summary: Scanner is great, support is just awful
Review: The Microtek 4800 scanner is a great buy, as long as it installs perfectly the first time. I have Windows XP, and one reason I chose this scanner is it's supposed to be compatible. Not hardly. Between two computer professionals, we couldn't get it to work. After several phone calls and numerous e-mails, we were told the problem was very complicated and we should use the premium (pay) support. This was before the 30 day free support period ended. We finally got into the registry and got it working. I do like the performance and features, just beware if you have XP or any unique setup...
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Summary: Windows XP Problems
Review: The scanner at first installed fine, but after rebooting the sdii.exe file would force the CPU usage to 100% making all programs unusable. I uninstalled and reinstalled the software with the same results. I went to the Microtek website and downloaded the new 5.76 driver. Again, sometimes the scanner would function correctly and sometimes the sdii.exe file would cause the CPU usage to reach 100%. The Microtek tech department was no help. After being on hold for 20 minutes, I spoke with an installation expert who could not help me and tranferred me to an "advanced" tech expert. This call resulted in a recorded message. Needless to say, I was dissapointed with the tech support. I later tried installing the scanner on a different computer with a different USB cable and got the same 100% CPU usage rate. If anyone else is experiencing this problem, ...
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Summary: good but
Review: The scanner has been good for everything I scanned except some photo's. Most photo's have spots on them after scanning that I can't seem to get rid of no matter what I do to try to adjust it. The picture they use to do adjustments is too small to see what you are doing. It will look good but then when you save it and go in to look at it, it still isn't right. It could be a little faster too. I don't understand why it will scan some photo's well and some are really bad. I cleaned it as directed and still it came out bad. Not my choice of scanner from now on. Will go to Cannon.
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Summary: Works great
Review: This is the first printer I have purchased. I bought mainly to scan photo's to sent tofriends. I found it very easy to install and use for me being some what a novice. It did come with the film and slidestrip adapter. I do wish it turned off without unplugging though
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