Umax Astra 1220P Color Flatbed Scanner

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Product Details

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• Shipping Weight: 13 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00000K33U
• Item model number: 1220P
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1973

Product Description

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.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

47 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GOOD SCANNER ! 111, November 6, 1999

By A Customer

This is a great scanner I know alot of people are thinking at such a low price why would it be good or work well ? But it does remarkably do yourself a favor get it

30 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Poor product, November 28, 1999

By A Customer

I purchased a 1220P less than a year ago and from the very start it was noisy,slow, and finiky about sending images to the printer. A week ago it finally gave up the and started displaying mult-colored lines through the image. Tried a number of times to get through to Umax to no avail. Scraped it and bought another brand.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Home use of Umax Vistascan Astra 1220P, January 14, 2002

By	Doug (Merkel, Texas USA) - See all my reviews

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.