Plustek OpticSlim 1180 1200 x 1200 DPI Flatbed scanner Gray White A3
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Price: £256.61
Brand: Plustek
Description: The Plustek Optic Slim 1180 is an A3 tabloid sized scanner designed for high quality scanning of Art photos scrapbooks genealogy research newspaper historical documents scrapbooks documents and other items up to 12 x 17 in size. Optic Slim 1180 includes four one-touch scan buttons to simplify and automate the most common scanning functions (i. e. scan OCR PDF and email). Bundled s Software includes image processing document management PDF creation highly accurate optical character recognition (OCR) and TWAIN driver. These features make it the ideal scanner for scrapbooking genealogy photo organizers photo scanning map scanning historical document scanning graphic designers publishing companies libraries schools small office/home office (SOHO) users and for those who require high quality large format scanning at a reasonable price. Large Format Scanning Scanning of A3 tabloid size documents and graphics up to 1200 dpi make this scanner ideal for art scrapbooking photo scanning and genealogy! Compact design With a sleek and compact design the Optic Slim 1180 uses less desktop and storage space than other A3 tabloid scanners. Easy to use Four one-touch buttons for performing pre-set jobs enables users to quickly: scan email OCR or create PDF files.LED Light Source. The Optic Slim 1180s LED light source provides stable illumination that doesnt change from scan to scan or over the life of the scanner. This results in higher quality images and no warm-up time is needed. Environmentally Responsible and Energy-Saving The Optic Slim 1180 meets ENERGY STAR standards and contributes to an environmentally-friendly and responsible work space. Software Bundled with simple-to-use image processing and document management tools fast and secure PDF conversion image organizer with thumbnail viewer and accurate OCR software. Plustek OpticSlim 1180 1200 x 1200 DPI Flatbed scanner Gray White A3 - shop the best deal online on appliances4.me
Category: Scanners
Merchant: Quzo
Product ID: 45561
Delivery time: Next Day
Delivery cost: 0
MPN: 0254UK
EAN: 5054629523384
Author: Mike Fox
Rating: 5
Review: Bit big but to be expected. It does however look very smart and sleek. So simple to use and what fantastic quality. Scans up to 1200 dpi in B?w, colour or sepia. Great with old photos and so fast on 600dpi. Much better quality and easier to use than y canon MG 5750 printer. I suppose that's to be expected from a dedicated scanner. If you are looking for a quality scanner then pay the money and buy something good, you will not be disappointed.
Author: Jakes
Rating: 1
Review: I liked this product for the A3 format and scan-only features. Design wise it also looked good, but was not essential to the choice. This however has been a lesson in patience and endurance. The software were installed and uninstalled several times but continued to flag up error reports of all kinds. While my PC could "see" the A3 scanner - it could not communicate with the drivers and as a result I could not use the product with my PC. I have lost literally days in trying to get it to work but failed. I have had a specialist on site whom spent 3 hours trying to get it to work to no avail. Plustek (manufacturers) support was near on non-existent and only contacted me once to say it must be a factory fault and should send it back. I have in the end had to resort to using a small notebook and Microsoft "camera and scanner wizard" to operate the scanner. It is clunky and unstable but with care I do manage to scan fairly large .png and .jpg files. Scanning to .tiff file format makes it crash every time. Standard setting scans are a waste of time but the higher resolution scans are of fair to good quality. But this is using software not designed to go with the product - so not the best way to test it. I installed the software originally on a Sony Viao Laptop, 64 bit Operating system with Windows 7 Home Premium It has 4GB ram and has an Intel Core i7 processor. I now run it from a ASUS EeePC notebook, with 1GB ram and an INtel Atom processor and it just about do the job. This notebook was never intended to be anything else but a soft-use web and email interface for non-business use. The notebook was a last resort (an old disused unit supplanted by iPad at home) and will now only be used to interface with the scanner. Overall - very disappointing. There is no reason why any new product cannot interface with one of the major operating systems available in the marketplace today. There is nothing intuitive about it I am sad to say. But more than anything - 6 weeks after purchase I am resorting to run it on a makeshift, make-do approach, using hardware not quite up to it and non-propitiatory software. Not the easy resolution and scanning that it promises to be. And the manufacturers seem wholly uninterested in providing any form of support or backup service. Sadly I cannot give a better review - it will be unfair to those of you considering it as an option. If it was not for the fact that I needed a scanner of A3 size and working on a restricted budget, I would not have it. But alternatives are near non existing with an A3 flat bed and I have decided to make do. But I do so with considerable reservations.
