Mustek Scan Express A3 1200 Pro USB Large Format Scanner

by Mustek

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 15.1 x 3.5 x 21.9 inches ; 9.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 14 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000WKSZ5A
• Item model number: ScanExpress A3 USB
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (204 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #37 in Electronics > Computers & Add-Ons > Scanners
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The Mustek Scan Express A3 1200 Pro USB Large Format Scanner is an ideal solution for large-sized scanning needs. With a large, full color CIS flatbed, this scanner is capable of creating full color 9600 dpi scans of images and documents up to 297mm x 420mm. With an easy-to-use USB 2.0 interface, this scanner is also capable of performing copies, and can even fax scanned documents with the included software. This scanner is compatible with Widows 2000, XP, Vista, and Mac OS X operating systems.

Product Description

ScanExpress A3 USB Digital Scanner Tabloid Sized Scanner with Powerful USB Connection

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

102 of 105 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Scanner for Comic Book Artists, February 11, 2008

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Anthony D. Bachman "Scars tell the Truth" (Boise, ID) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mustek Scan Express A3 1200 Pro USB Large Format Scanner (Office Product)

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.

77 of 79 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For affordable A3 scanners is Mustek the only game in town. 5 Stars!, February 23, 2008

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Martijn13Maart1970 (Husavik Iceland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mustek Scan Express A3 1200 Pro USB Large Format Scanner (Office Product)

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!

95 of 99 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It WORKS under OS X!, May 19, 2008

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Emanuele A. Fiorillo (Milano, Italy) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mustek Scan Express A3 1200 Pro USB Large Format Scanner (Office Product)

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...