I have been perusing the various offerings in the A3 flatbed scanner niche as a replacement for my painfully slow Mustek A3 1200Pro, which does not even scan the entire 12x17 area, making it actually pretty useless for some things.
I can hardly imagine a more experience crew than here on the topic of what A3 flatbeds are fast, reliable, give nice sharp images and most importantly are well supported. I have looked at entries in the db but before I plop down hard cash I'd like advice from people who have already used them. I am doing archive scanning for the National Space Society and have lots of odd sized and sometimes non-bendable things, so I have to use a flatbed for those items... I am using the marvelous Fujitsu ScanSnap for pretty much anything bendably letter sized. I was a bit interested in the Plustek OpticPro A320, but it does not seem to be supported yet. I'm a bit fed up with Mustek's recent offerings and the fact they do not support their older ones on 64b linux... I have to run my Mustek off a 32b virtual machine with an ancient copy of sane because they do not give you the ability to recompile the driver to run on anything new. A few years ago I spent a good bit of money on an HP model whose page feeder never worked right... every time you told it to scan it went through several pages from the feeder. It became an expensive door stop. -- View this message in context: http://sane.10972.n7.nabble.com/A3-flatbed-scanners-tp17929.html Sent from the SANE - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
