Plustek Opticslim 1180 Flatbed Scanner

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.

Excellent product. Excellent scanned images colour rendition excellent. Fast scan times at all dpi settings. Runs smoothly and quietly. Auto cropping excellent. Would recommend to everybody. Well pleased with all results.

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.

Works ok, Problems connecting to network.

Minimal instructions with product. A very complex interface suitable perhaps for IT engineers, but of little use to the amateur. Zero response from enquiry on the website. Zero response when emailing the technical support line (after they politely answered from Germany, suggesting I use the English web interface that had produced no results). I suspect that this is probably a very good product, but suffering from an almost total lack of documentation, support or response. I wonder whether someone else's software might interact usefully with it and be easier to use. When I have used it it has produced very good results. Plustek please note!

Please note this product will not work with a Mac. I sent it back. Also remember that it is shipped from France so sending it back was expensive. All in all a fairly poor experience.

It’s OK if you don’t mind what comes out of it bearing little resemblance to what went in. A joke, really.

I suspect that many artists/illustrators might be tempted, as I was, to buy this A3 scanner because of the attractive price point. However it is not of a high enough quality to scan colour accurately, and I have had nothing but trouble trying to get a decent scan of watercolour, pencil crayon and ink images. For several months I assumed it was something to do with the way I had set it up, and struggled on, trying to make (ultimately unsatisfactory) reparations in Photoshop and Googling for calibration methods. In the end I contacted the manufacturers. Their reply? 'This is not a high-end scanner and you shouldn't expect good results from it', basically (I paraphrase). Sadly, I can't afford a high-end A3 scanner at £1,000+. I don't have any quibble with scanners being available for tasks that require less accuracy or fine detail, but I do think that this shortcoming should be prominently visible in the product description.

Lo usiamo regolarmente in ufficio per scansioni di copie, foto, libri immagini varie con risultati più che buoni. Arriva fino a 1200 dpi Interfaccia minimale ma completa come da foto. Dotato dei suoi driver e software per mac e windows Le immagini si possono importare da qualsiasi programma di grafica. Lo usiamo su Win 10 pro e fino ad ora nessun problema. Con il coperchio rimovibile scansioni perfette anche da libri che fuoriescono dal lato. In generale un buon prodotto senza eccedere con spese folli per scanner A3 magari professionali. Consigliato ottimo rapporto qualità prezzo con un immagine importata e restituita più che buona... Arrivato ben imballato nei tempi stabiliti… Venditore affidabile Consigliato Un Saluto

السلعه مخالفه للمواصفات حيث لا يوجد بها لغه عربيه او انجليزيه، في منشورة التعلميات او البرمجه. لا انصح بالشراء

This is not the best scanner - preview is bad, scanned images can be unfocused of paper is not sitting on scanner's surface. But, this is a very affordable A3 scanner and for its money, its worth the purchase. I found the drivers online and had no issue installing them.

conforme à mes attentes. envois sécure et bien protégé

Muy contento con el escáner,buena calidad para escanear mis álbumes de fotos