Mustek Scan Express A3 1200 Pro USB Large Format Scanner

• Large format full color scanner
• Scans images and documents up to 29.7cm x 42.0cm (11.7" x 16.5")
• Creates full-color 9600 dpi scans
• USB 2.0 connectivity for fast, reliable data transfer
• Windows and Mac compatible

If you are looking for a scanner that can scan a full page of comic art in one pass then look no further. No more scanning in pieces and cutting and pasting pages together. The scan area has enough room for a full sized 11" x 17" comic page with room to spare. The extra software isn''t great or bad, if you are already scanning into your chosen software you probably won''t use it. Plus it''s about the hardware and I am so glad I got this scanner, it has made scanning pages a lot easier.

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To Mac OS X users: I''ve successfully tried this scanner! I can confirm that the TWAIN driver is on the Mustek site (and also on the CD that comes with the scanner, in my case), you just have to download it with the right-clic method. After this, you''ll only need the right app to use the scanner: Photoshop, the only program that''s able to recognize the non-standard Mustek TWAIN driver. Before discovering this, I''ve tried the ScanExpress 1200 Pro under Image Capture, GrapchiConverter etc... but no way. In Photoshop, it works instantly like a charm. Hope this will help some OS X user out there...

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I edited this review to make it even more positive. I am finished scanning all Carl Barks work he did (Donald Duck, Scrooge etc), which is about 7000 pages. I didnt even count. Plus half of that in the Dutch version after I got this scanner.

It did not falter ONE single time! Incredible. What a great buy!

I have a book with Donald Duck paintings from Carl Barks which I wanted to scan. It has a size between A4 and A3 and the foldouts are exactly A3.

Looking at the prices for what I wanted Mustek was the only possibility. I live in Iceland and got it unscathed from the US.

It comes in a great carrying case box, so A+ for packing, Mustek!

And also A+ for quality, and A++++ for quality/price ratio! Why?

Indeed the scanner looks a bit thick, as if it is from the 80''s. But it is nice and strong. Not fragile.

The software design looks also not as neat as that of i.e. Canon, but that is only the ''looks. How about what it can do for you? A lot! Taje the software for recognizing text: I just open the program, scan a page of a book and on the right side I get the text without any mistakes. Brilliant! Easily to be saved as a picture, or word or other document!

This scanner does exactly the job for me and it does it nothing less thant brilliantly. For this price, you can forget any other brand. Prices elsewhere start at 900 dollars or more. And what more do you need than good image processing, good colour bit quality and high resolution? Mustek has all this!

It has 48-bit possibility, and dpi to 1200. You need a very fast computer with a lot of memory to do that! I use 400dpi on 48-bit colour and the results are already "you might as well be there" quality.

The software is easy to install and really enough intuitive. Read the instructions, open the Ulead Photo program, type in the file name you want to save it as, select dpi etc, use "acquire scanner", do a "preview", select the area you want to scan to save processing time, and there you go. All the other selections are easy.

One very good plus is also the lid comes on and off very easy with a hinge mechanism. I have a CanonLide who doesnt allow the lid to take off (at least I haven''t found a way, I don''t wanna break it) and then I cannot always put the book closely enough to the plate.

With Mustec glassplate you can always put the page such that it lies flat on the glassplate. Very important point! Great!

So some of you who want to scan a book will think: hey I have A4 size so why go for an A3? Well, you can do 2 pages at the same time, and crop and process each to a different page. This scanner is, compared to i.e. CanonLide (which is light, ok), very quick. It must have a lot of internal memory.

So I really want to recommend this scanner to all of you who want just a good quality scanner, for either A4 or A3. I would say go straight for this size, since, like me, when you find out you suddenly need to scan something bigger than A4, you can!

This machine rocks!

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This product was everything I needed! As a professional illustrator and graphic designer, I not sure what else you could ask for in a large format scanner. The image quality it fantastic... why would anyone pay $2000 or more for the ability to scan at a resolution above 1600 dpi?! The human eye can only determine a quality distinction at around 240 to 300 dpi... so you would only need to scan things at a higher resolution (than 300 dpi) if you plan on enlarging the original image or object being scanned. For example, if you were to scan a 4" x 6" photograph in this scanner at maximum resolution (1600 dpi), the resulting scan would be equivalent to 21.334" x 32" at 300 dpi. The gist of my review: this scanner should suit the needs of most professionals at a fraction of the cost of other A3 scanners. Great product!

I received my scanner two days ago. The instalation went without any problems. The first scan was done with the default settings. The result was a tif file which looked absolute horrible. Then I switched to super fine resolution together with JPEG2000 and all quality concerns disappeared. Since then I have scanned about thirty full color oil pastels of various sizes upo to 11 by 17. I am very particular about how the colors in my artwork reproduce. This scanner does come through to my satisfaction.

I catalog all my work using Adobe Lightroom 1.3 which strangely does not support JPEG2000. Moreover, the scanner does not support regular JPEG. I work around this problem using the JPEG2000 viewer that comes with the scanner software. In that viewer I save the image as JPEG under a new name. Importantly, the filename has to be changed not just the file extension. Otherwise the viewer just creates another JPEG2000 file.

The difference between JPEG (cosine transforms) and JPEG2000 (wavelet transforms) is presumably the reason that the scanner does not work directly with CS3. CS3 and Lightroom should really support JPEG2000.

For the price of $150 this scanner is great.

-M.