AMAZON USA DISCOUNT LINK is.gd Customer Reviews: "A friend just put out a question about scanners, which prompted me to remember to review this one. I was recommended to this little guy by a friend who purchased one and recommended it then to me. I appreciate personal recommendations, so I went with the Mustek.In a nutshell, it's great. The entire base is not-much-larger than the 11x17 scanning area, so it doesn't take up much more desk space than that. The scans are good, the warmup time and response are fast, and it's compatible with my MacBookPro (I'm running Leopard OSX 10.5.4 though, not Snow Leopard, so I can't testify to it's functioning with any other OS). It has no preset buttons on the scanner itself, but I never really used them, so that didn't bother me.My only complaint - and it's not even a complaint, because, hey, it works great now - was the less-than-ideal scanning interface. I still haven't necessarily figured out the BEST way to scan, but the dance I ended up doing was this:Open the Application "Image Capture" Devices Browse Devices... hit the "Use TWAIN UI" button next to the scanner, and you're up. You can, from there, automate your scans to open in Photoshop, etc. easily. I guess my only real complaint was that I had to figure that out by myself, because the included-instructions are rather limited.Seriously though: where else are you going to find an 11 x 17 flatbed for this price? It's an issue for artists with limited wallets (read: most artists ...
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