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Friday July 27, 2007
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"Supersize me" applies to scanners, too. Mustek's new ScanExpress A3 USB handles 11-by-17 tabloid pages yet sells for a dirt-cheap $200 street. Just make sure you shop for the 2007 version with a USB 2.0 interface. PC Magazine tested the predecessor in 2002 with the same product name and found that one weak on dynamic range. This one has better if not perfect quality, shorter scan times, and still no front panel buttons (keeps the cost down). Once you've got one, you'll be surprised how many uses you'll find, from plagiarizing two pages of magazine text at once to scanning four to eight snapshots at a time (use your software's auto trim feature to cut them apart). Other tabloid scanners run $1,000 and up.
Post by Bill Howard
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April 4, 2008 2:17 PM
I've been using one of these since 2004 (found on ebay for $140 at the time), and it's been great - I use it primarily for scanning my black and white tabloid sized artwork, and it works really well.