Umax Astra 1200s Review

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Umax Astra 1200s
3.1 stars
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morkys's Review of Umax Astra 1200s Scanner

4th Feb 2008

Overall Rating

4 stars
  • Value for money
    4 stars
  • Scan Quality
    4.5 stars
  • Ease of Use
    3.5 stars
  • Time Scanner Owned
    Over 1 Year
  • Ease of Set Up
    3.5 stars
Good Points

Good scanner for detail, sharpness, clarity colour etc.


Bad Points

Won't work in modern PC despite PCI SCSI card.


General Comments

I love this scanner, but I could not get it to work on my MSI Neo2 Platinum motherboard and AMD64 CPU based system. I tried too different PCI scsi cards and it won't work. Nevermind drivers, the PC itself won't even see the scanner upon boot-up. This was back in 2005. It's now 2008 and I am going to upgrade my PC again to another motherboard and CPU and see if through some fluke I can get it to work again.

This scanner isn't super fast, but it works really really well. Good quality scans overall. I just wish it would work with newer PC's. I would recommend looking for this older scanner, but I can't because of the compatability issue.

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