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Summary: bum equipment
Review: I purchased a scanner from a store (best buy) in modesto, Ca. When I got home i found that the scanner was used. the cd was thrown in the box w/o protection nd it was dirty. the white cord was dirty. I took it back (60 miles round trip) and the store siomp[ly offered me another scanner and 25.00 in cash for my trouble. I then bought a scanmakerX6 (new) and took it home. It worked for awhile then stopped and my computer was really going down. I finally took my comp to a shop and they fixed it. I again tried to install the scan,maker x6 and more problems. IT WILL NOT WORK. my computer won't even rec it now. I want to send iut back to the co, but don't know how. Bob
Rating:
Summary: bum equipment
Review: I purchased a scanner from a store (best buy) in modesto, Ca. When I got home i found that the scanner was used. the cd was thrown in the box w/o protection nd it was dirty. the white cord was dirty. I took it back (60 miles round trip) and the store siomp[ly offered me another scanner and 25.00 in cash for my trouble. I then bought a scanmakerX6 (new) and took it home. It worked for awhile then stopped and my computer was really going down. I finally took my comp to a shop and they fixed it. I again tried to install the scan,maker x6 and more problems. IT WILL NOT WORK. my computer won't even rec it now. I want to send iut back to the co, but don't know how. Bob
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Summary: Product must vary?
Review: I purchased this product about a year ago. It set up easily, and was fairly easy to use. The scans I have made have been nothing short of magnificient. The only "technical" problem I have encountered is that, if the scanner is off at startup, a dialog box tells you that the scanner was not detected. If you want to use the scanner, you have to reboot, with the scanner on at start-up. I reccommended this to my family, and they also bought one. The scanner works great, just like mine, but it is noisier than mine even though it is the exact same model. It is a shame that the technology is so good, but the quality control is so poor. I will say that when this product is working properly, and it is used correctly, the results are magnificient.
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Summary: Excellent scan quality, sluggish speed
Review: I've had this scanner for about 3 years now. It has worked perfectly in Windows 98/ME/2000/XP. I mainly use this scanner for photographs. The scan quality is excellent, as evidenced by correct tonal reproduction. You can even scan 3D objects by placing them on the scan bed, effectively getting a digital camera quality image. The only downside is speed. This scanner features a parallel port connection, which severely cripples its performance potential. Basically, if you need an all-around quality scanner to be used for occasional scans, look into it.
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Summary: A GREAT SCANNER FOR THE MONEY.
Review: IF YOU CAN BUY A BETTER SCANNER THAT DOES THE JOB LIKE SCANMAKERX6,HOOK UP SO EASY,MAKES BEAUTIFUL PICTURE,AND DOCUMENTS.BUY ONE AND SEE FORSELF.
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Summary: Decent scanner but terrible software
Review: It scans pictures with pretty good quality for the price, I have no problem with that. In addition, you can use both printer and scanner with only one parallel port on the computer. It's a little tricky to get this to work right, you have to boot up in the right order (printer first, then scanner, then computer) but overall still pretty nice to use both devices with one port. The downside to this scanner is the software. Basically, it's all garbage. The only piece I use is the TWAIN acquire software attached to my Paint Shop Pro and Adobe Photoshop to bring scanned pictures in. In addition, I have a terrible time reinstalling the drivers for this scanner whenever I unplug it from my parallel port. My CD-ROM chokes whenever I place the Microtek scanning CD in my CD-ROM. I had to download the latest drivers from the Microtek website instead. My recommendation is: invest the extra money to get a newer, more current scanner with at least a DECENT software package. But buy the scanner for the scanning, not the software that comes with it.
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Summary: Decent scanner but terrible software
Review: It scans pictures with pretty good quality for the price, I have no problem with that. In addition, you can use both printer and scanner with only one parallel port on the computer. It's a little tricky to get this to work right, you have to boot up in the right order (printer first, then scanner, then computer) but overall still pretty nice to use both devices with one port. The downside to this scanner is the software. Basically, it's all garbage. The only piece I use is the TWAIN acquire software attached to my Paint Shop Pro and Adobe Photoshop to bring scanned pictures in. In addition, I have a terrible time reinstalling the drivers for this scanner whenever I unplug it from my parallel port. My CD-ROM chokes whenever I place the Microtek scanning CD in my CD-ROM. I had to download the latest drivers from the Microtek website instead. My recommendation is: invest the extra money to get a newer, more current scanner with at least a DECENT software package. But buy the scanner for the scanning, not the software that comes with it.
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Summary: Make sure you know what you are doing before using this
Review: There are 5 or 6 pieces of software that come with this scanner, each from a different company (there is the scanner drivers, OCR software, etc.). I installed the first piece which worked fine. After the second piece of software, the machine locked up and would only boot to a black screen. I started the machine in safe mode and restored my registry and it still would not work. I had to reinstall my machine and the same thing happened. Know what you are getting yourself into with their technical support. Each piece of software is made by a different company so you cannot call one place. Also, each support number is a toll call and each place has very limited hours. I installed my scanner on a Saturday night and none of the companies had support lines open on Saturday night. If you are going to buy a scanner, get an HP or other higher quality vendor.
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Summary: Make sure you know what you are doing before using this
Review: There are 5 or 6 pieces of software that come with this scanner, each from a different company (there is the scanner drivers, OCR software, etc.). I installed the first piece which worked fine. After the second piece of software, the machine locked up and would only boot to a black screen. I started the machine in safe mode and restored my registry and it still would not work. I had to reinstall my machine and the same thing happened. Know what you are getting yourself into with their technical support. Each piece of software is made by a different company so you cannot call one place. Also, each support number is a toll call and each place has very limited hours. I installed my scanner on a Saturday night and none of the companies had support lines open on Saturday night. If you are going to buy a scanner, get an HP or other higher quality vendor.
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Summary: Great Scanner, Bad Software.
Review: This is an amazing scanner, the quality is incredible, and it is faster than most parallel scanners. It is great how you can fit big objects because of the lifting top. It is a really high quality scanner but the software is horrible. The ScanSuite software that it comes with has 16-bit components which make it slow and ugly, but it works. A major problem I found was when I installed Ahead Nero Burning ROM CD-RW software, this application installs the latest ASPI drivers, the scanner also uses the ASPI layer, but the problem is that the scanner drivers use an old 1996 ASPI.DLL to interface with the ASPI installed on your system. After installing Nero my registry corrupted because the scanner driver caused ASPI to fail which caused data to get written wrong on my hard drive. So just be careful with ASPI if you buy this scanner, if it wasn't for that problem I would have rated it a 5!
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