Umax Astra 1220P Color Flatbed Scanner

Amazon.com Product Description
The UMAX Astra 1220P is a quality scanner for home and office use. A parallel-port interface makes setup simple; there's no need to open your computer. A printer pass-through port built into the Astra 1220P allows the scanner and printer to share one parallel port.

Use scanned images to add excitement to your documents, reports, and Web pages or share images by e-mail with clients, family, and friends. With the included software you can archive photos and important documents, copy, fax, and more. This combination of exclusive hardware and powerful software will be one of the most fun and useful computer tools you'll ever use. Explore your creativity and make your documents come alive.

Product Description:
The UMAX Astra 1220P not only scans photos and documents at 600x1200 dpi resolution, this top-notch flatbed scanner is built with a parallel port to provide simple installation and ease of use. Instead of SCSI connectivity, the 1220P is a quick alternative to users who need a high-powered scanning solution. It provides 36-bit color quality with a 10-bit A/D converter and UMAX patented Bit Enhancement technology. The 1220P is an excellent addition to any graphics or corporate communications department.The 1220P ships with a full-version of Adobe PhotoDeluxe, NewSoft Presto! PageManager, Caere OmniPage LE OCR, and UMAX Copy Utility. The 1220P comes with a cold cathode lamp for long life and the lid is removable for those big, three-dimensional scans. The Astra 1220P also has an optional transparency adapter to give you even more flexibility.

Umax Astra 1220P Color Flatbed Scanner

Average customer rating:

Great Images, although slow and buggy

Worse than a 70's Clunker running on unleaded gas

UMAX Astra 1220P - Support Issue

Umax will rip you a new one

Home use of Umax Vistascan Astra 1220P

Umax Astra 1220P Color Flatbed Scanner

Manufacturer: Umax
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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Product Features:

600 x 1,200 dpi optical color scanning

9,600 x 9,600 dpi maximum resolution

36-bit color quality with Umax patented BET technology

Complete software bundle

Parallel interface

ASIN: B00000K33U

Product Description

The UMAX Astra 1220P not only scans photos and documents at 600x1200 dpi resolution, this top-notch flatbed scanner is built with a parallel port to provide simple installation and ease of use. Instead of SCSI connectivity, the 1220P is a quick alternative to users who need a high-powered scanning solution. It provides 36-bit color quality with a 10-bit A/D converter and UMAX patented Bit Enhancement technology. The 1220P is an excellent addition to any graphics or corporate communications department.The 1220P ships with a full-version of Adobe PhotoDeluxe, NewSoft Presto! PageManager, Caere OmniPage LE OCR, and UMAX Copy Utility. The 1220P comes with a cold cathode lamp for long life and the lid is removable for those big, three-dimensional scans. The Astra 1220P also has an optional transparency adapter to give you even more flexibility.

Amazon.com Product Description

The UMAX Astra 1220P is a quality scanner for home and office use. A parallel-port interface makes setup simple; there's no need to open your computer. A printer pass-through port built into the Astra 1220P allows the scanner and printer to share one parallel port.

Customer Reviews:

Great Images, although slow and buggy.......2004-06-16

When I owned this scanner I thought the image quality was top noch. Colors were acurate. Details and sharpness were good.I was using on a Win98 machine. However, it was very slow and I kept having to reinstall the twain drivers because they would get corrupt causing green or black scans. It was much worse when I switched to WinME. Then when I upgraded to WinXP I just got rid of it. I have not been to happy with what I replaced it with, the Epson perfection 1660, so I'm currently looking for another scanner.

Worse than a 70's Clunker running on unleaded gas.......2003-11-12

I've had this "scanner" for about 3 years now. Let's put it this way: I had time to go watch an episode of Friends while this thing completed a 300dpi scan. It has given me nothing but trouble from the beginning, and the other reviews are correct in that there is no support for any new OS's (Win 2000, XP, etc.) short of purchasing new drivers from the manufacturer. Umax is a bunch of daft cretins if they actually think anyone will waste their money on such inferior support. I was fortunate enough to find a pirated copy of their updated drivers (it came from overseas and was in a different language) so I could use the scanner with XP. Surprisingly it worked but that didn't stop the errors and incredible slowness this machine is notorious for. I wish Amazon would add negative stars to their scale.
I hope other potential customers will steer clear of it and find another model, even another company. You'll be much happier.

UMAX Astra 1220P - Support Issue.......2003-10-16

Scanner works well with Windows 98. However, is now obsolete with Win-XP unless I purchase an updated driver from UMAX. I am not happy with this hidden cost.

Umax will rip you a new one.......2003-09-04

Buy Umax only if you will never upgrade your software. If you plan on upgrading your operating system in the future Umax is not the way to go. Any time you need to upgrade drivers for say a new operating system or if you lost yours, unlike most other computer manufacturers, Umax will not let you download drivers for the upgrade. Instead they will mail you the drivers for just [money amount]. Real customer service.

Home use of Umax Vistascan Astra 1220P.......2002-01-14

For infrequent home use, this is really not a bad scanner for the low price. However, it does not hold up well to frequent use. Image quality is what you would expet from a lowend scanner. After about 1 year, I started to get colored lines through the image. These will disappear if you cycle the unit in preview mode several times. Even with this problem, at $...you can afford to throw it away and get a new one after a year.

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