Umax Astra 6400 Scanner

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Product Details

Product Manual [913kb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 11 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004Y7T7
• Item model number: SPKG-13440
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 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 6400 offers high-speed FireWire/IEEE 1394 technology. With42-bit internal color density for billions of colors, and 14 bits perchannel, the unit scans in resolutions from 600 x 1,200 dpi to a maximuminterpolated 9600 x 9,600 dpi. Single-button operation expedites scans,copying, optical character recognition, and e-mailing of images. With FireWire connectivity for Mac andPCs, the 6400 is designed to appeal to Web designers and graphicsartists.

The Astra single-pass scanner with CCD sensor provides image scalabilityto scan and enlarge slides and other media. The Intelligent Image ProcessEngine (IIPE) evaluates the correct scanner settings for many types ofimages, providing fast, untroubled scanning at high speeds. With scaling from 1 to 1,000 percent% in 5 percent increments, 24 seconds isall the time it takes to produce an 8.5-by-11-inch color image at 300 dpi. IIPE also auto-crops imageareas and can correct the orientation if the source image is off center.

With Umax Astra 6400's hot swappability, you can connect or disconnect thescanner without restarting the system. This compact and lightweight (under8 pounds) unit includes Adobe Photoshop LE, OmniPage LE OCR, and Presto!PageManager software for enhancing, modifying, and organizing your images.A transparency cover is available separately. Umax backs the Astra6400 with one year of technical support and extended support hours.

Product Description

The UMAX Astra 6400 offers the fast speed of FireWire/IEEE-1394 technology along with hot-pluggable support for fast, versatile, and high quality image capture. The Astra 6400 is up to twice as fast as identical SCSI scanner. With hot-pluggability user can connect or disconnect the scanner at any time without restarting the system. A FireWire/1394 card (for PC) is also included with the Astra 6400. With 600 x 1200 dpi optical resolution, the Astra 6400 provides image scalability allowing the user to scan and enlarge slides and other media. Featuring 42-bit internal color, it will also provide billions of sharp, vibrant colors.UMAX' exclusive Intelligent Image Process Engine (IIPE) automatically detects whether a document or photograph would best be rendered in color, grayscale, or black and white. Unlike most scanners, the Astra 6400 does not require the user to define media type, color type or size. IIPE technology also determines the optimal resolution, auto-crops the image area, and even rotates the output to the correct orientation if the source image is askew on the scanner bed. The Astra 6400 offers a solid software solution including Adobe Photoshop LE, OmniPage LE OCR and Presto! PageManager. Adobe Photoshop LE software delivers a set of the image-editing tools preferred by graphic design professionals around the world.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best there is for the price., April 7, 2001

By	Brad Hunt "rarrgh" (the briefcase.) - See all my reviews

Well when my old HP crapped out, I knew I had to get me a scanner that would last more than 6 months and would produce high-quality scans. Enter UMAX. This is by far the best scanner I've seen available for the money, and the included firewire card comes in quite handy. If you're just sending photos to friends & family or if you need a scanner for professional purposes, this would, like, totally fit the bill, yo.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quality Scanner, August 12, 2001

By	"lwang81" (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

The UMax Astra 6400 Scanner is one of the best scanners you can ever own. I originally had the UMax Astra 1220U Scanner and it provided ok quality scans, but I take lots of pictures and waiting for scanners to finish scanning every single picture was a burden that discourage me from scanning pictures often. The 1220U series also wasn't Windows 2000 compatible so I decided to finally get a better scanner.

I research and found that the 6400 was known for it's fast scanning speeds so I decided to give it a try, and it didn't disappoint me.

The scanner comes with everything you need to use it and you don't need to worry about Windows 98se or 2000 compatiblity. It even comes with its own firewire card. The firewire card has 3 ports so not only can you use it with your scanner but you can plug 2 other firewire devices such as digital video cameras for digital video editing on your computer, that is if you have the software to do so.

All and all, I think this is the best scanner that any home user can buy for a reasonable price.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars DOES NOT WORK WITH WINDOWS XP - BEWARE, December 11, 2001

By	admin (Lancaster, PA United States) - See all my reviews

I just upgraded to Windows XP after buying this product. It's not supported by Microsoft. Neither is the Astra 6450.
Be very careful.