Umax Astra 2200 Scanner

Amazon.com Product Description
The Astra 2200 scanner from Umax is a prime choice for users at home or in small offices who demand excellence from their equipment. Capable of handling transparencies, negatives, magazines, photographs, and all sorts of office documents with precision and clarity, the scanner has a 600 x 1,200 dpi resolution and 36-bit color. With both USB and SCSI interfaces, it adapts well to systems of all ages and capabilities, either Macintosh or PC. Included is an impressive software bundle of ten different programs created to help you with design and management of all graphics-related projects. Umax offers a one-year warranty on both parts and service.

Product Description:
The UMAX Astra 2200 is the smart, push button scanner for home and office. With a touch of a button you can scan, copy or send images and documents to popular applications such as e-mail, document management and image editing software. With the USB interface, setup is simple. Just plug in the scanner, install the software and you're up and running in minutes. And the 2200 also has a SCSI II interface, which means that more computer systems new and old will be able to easily connect to the scanner. With the included Universal Transparency Cover, you can easily scan slides, negatives and other transparent material. The Transparency Cover replaces the lid on your scanner and allows you to scan transparencies up to 4" x 5". While other scanners offer transparency solutions as options, the Astra 2200 comes equipped with the transparency cover right out of the box.

Average customer rating:

Very annoying machine
buy something else
Not stellar, but does the job, and DOES work w/ Win XP
Umax does not support
Useless Umax support

Umax Astra 2200 Scanner

Manufacturer: Umax
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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Product Features:

Single-pass color flatbed scanner
Push-button scanning
True 600 x 1,200 dpi optical resolution
36-bit color
USB and SCSI-2 interface

ASIN: B00004W442

Product Description

The UMAX Astra 2200 is the smart, push button scanner for home and office. With a touch of a button you can scan, copy or send images and documents to popular applications such as e-mail, document management and image editing software. With the USB interface, setup is simple. Just plug in the scanner, install the software and you're up and running in minutes. And the 2200 also has a SCSI II interface, which means that more computer systems new and old will be able to easily connect to the scanner. With the included Universal Transparency Cover, you can easily scan slides, negatives and other transparent material. The Transparency Cover replaces the lid on your scanner and allows you to scan transparencies up to 4" x 5". While other scanners offer transparency solutions as options, the Astra 2200 comes equipped with the transparency cover right out of the box.

Amazon.com Product Description

The Astra 2200 scanner from Umax is a prime choice for users at home or in small offices who demand excellence from their equipment. Capable of handling transparencies, negatives, magazines, photographs, and all sorts of office documents with precision and clarity, the scanner has a 600 x 1,200 dpi resolution and 36-bit color. With both USB and SCSI interfaces, it adapts well to systems of all ages and capabilities, either Macintosh or PC. Included is an impressive software bundle of ten different programs created to help you with design and management of all graphics-related projects. Umax offers a one-year warranty on both parts and service.

Customer Reviews:

Very annoying machine.......2004-01-21

Used to work ok in win 98 but when I upgraded to XP it's nearly useless (considering how expensive it is!)

It only works if you unplug the transparency cover and UMAX won't upgrade the drivers for XP. I bought it for slides and it wasn;t even great at those - bad colour reproduction. I have to fix almost every image with photophop.

I advsise against this and will not be buying any more umax products.

buy something else.......2004-01-17

This scanner is garbage. Why?

- Umax claims that it can scan negatives & slides. It does a horrible job, as it does not have the true resolution to scan media so small, and the color/contrast is awful when scanning these transparent media.

- Umax claims (now) that this scanner will work with Windows XP with new drivers. It does not. It may work once in a while, but frequently crashes/locks up the scanner software and becomes useless.

- Umax support is awful. They charge you for updated drivers, when they finally get around to updating them. Then you find out that the new drivers are still broken.

- Not only should you not buy this scanner, you should NEVER buy a Umax scanner. Period.

Not stellar, but does the job, and DOES work w/ Win XP.......2003-11-04

Bought it at a rummage sale for $15. Another $15 for the CD from Umax w/ the Windows XP drivers. Once the CD arrived, I installed everything and had it up and running (with only minor hiccups) on my Win XP Pro system in about a half-hour. Not the best scanner, but quite acceptable for what I need now, and quite a deal at a total of $30.

Umax does not support.......2003-10-27

I bought the $15.00 upgrade CD from Umax when I moved it to a XP system, but it did not work. I attempted to call them for service they want to charge another $25.00 for the phone call. They simply don't work with XP systems.

Useless Umax support.......2003-09-09

This scanner worked fine under windows 98. It does NOT work properly with any later operating system from Microsoft. Umax support is non-existant. They want you to pay for driver updates, and then the driver updates still don't work. They say Windows built-in scanning capabilities are supported, they aren't. Stay away from this scanner, far away.

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