Microtek ScanMaker 5600

usability, price, design, reliability

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85% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

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usability

58% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Although you can buy flatbed scanners for 50 or even less, these are really only suitable for home use. If you want something a little more capable, and with the option of automatic document feed and a transparency scanner, then the Microtek ScanMaker...

High-quality scans of both prints and film (slides and negatives). LED light source for reflective scans eliminates warm-up time

Scans only four slides or one strip of film at a time. Dust and scratch removal feature does little for scratches

Although it's a bit slow and comes with little software, the Canon CanoScan 5600F offers lots of value thanks to its high-quality scans and low price.

Good for scanning negs

problem with dust particles showing up on scans. Bought another brand

Mind blowing scan quality, especially when you set the 4800DPI

Did not install on Windows-7 even after downloading the correct x64 drivers. Had to install on my XP laptop. Size is very big and heavy, you don't get the idea looking at the photo

I purchased this scanner to replace my Canon scanner that I purchased from Newegg eight years ago. My old scanner took a full minute to scan a single page at 150dpi, but this gem takes less than 10 seconds. I scan a lot of photos from magazines and...

None yet. Only gave this scanner four stars because I have only had it for one day and have not had a chance to fully explore it's potential

Good scanner for the money

Film scanner is for 35mm ONLY. The lighted top is a narrow strip, and not the entire top of the scanner lid. Avoid this model if you want to scan medium format negs/slides

Installation is fast and simple enough. The software isn't too bulky, and it's very easy to use ; I opened the box, installed the software and drivers, and scanned my first picture in under 10 minutes ; Scan quality is very good so far. It reads pencil...

It seems as though one has to use the Cannon software that come bundled up with the scanner to get full use out of it

Scanner worked fine. Scanned in 35 mm negatives and slides @ 9600 dpi. Pictures came out very clear ; Regular scanning also worked as I hoped it would

None that I can think of

I didn't get this here, but I noticed it on sale and figured I'd leave a little review ; I've been using this for - wow, 2 years ; Scanned around 10,000 photos so far. No problems with the hardware ; Works on XP and Windows 7 x64 ; Nice Looking

Software is kind of great, kind of poor: It has all the features you need and then some, but my main gripe is that it doesn't remember certain preferences, like save location. So every time you save a batch of scans, you have to hunt down the folder...