A good scanner, but unfavorable for Windows 7, despite WIA driver and Twain driver.

In principle, a good scanner, but there are a few things about what not to write, but which are not insignificant. The thing with the drivers, Twain counterpoint WIA. WIA is a standard Windows, especially Windows 7. It supports both. Wow, sounds good. But, there's a catch. Because actually mastered this scanner 4800dpi. But only if the Twain driver is using. When WIA drivers are max. 600dpi. possible. More can not adjust it, even though the scanner is more. The setting of the WIA driver are worse than useless. Just brightness, contrast, color or b / w and make a resolution to max. 600 dpi can be adjusted. Unlike the TWAIN driver. Additionally allows you to customize the full spectrum. Levels, remove dust and scratches, well over 4800 dpi, then just interpolated and much more.
It has stands's the choice if you want to scan through image editing programs. So want to import images into the relevant programs. One can choose the scanning source, so WIA or Twain.
So to choose if possible the Twain driver, because that is so much better. And for most programs that goes well, but in Windows 7 there is a hook, because it is not running. One program scans the document while a, but then it freezes. Another program will not respond when you scan the button "clicks.
The problem is not the programs or the Twain driver, but Windows 7. Windows 7 is designed to WIA, and so there is just trouble. Remedy you manage the fact that you opt for the WIA driver. In Adobe Photoshop CS5 for example, only the WIA driver is possible because Adobe Twain no longer supported in this version. Well, also works, but only with minimal adjustment and max. 600 dpi.

Actually, for normal scans 300 dpi perfectly adequate, what I complain so. But if you want more, because you want to scan very good photos with many details that will later be printed as posters, 600 dpi is just not enough. Since you have mastered a scanner of 4800 dpi, and I bought it and why, and then the.

It remains to note that you can handle this shortcoming. The software associated with this scanner, allows. This software is primarily used to manage the 5 buttons on the scanner. These include copy, send e-mail, scan Automatic, and scan as a PDF file. Here you have the possibility to determine by default that the Twain driver is used and thus resists the full range available. The scans are then stored in the desired format in the My Pictures folder ", but even that can be set. So you will not scan directly over his favorite software, but only once the programs which belong and can then open the scans with its software and edit further.
In XP Mode from Windows 7 works with my programs Twain and WIA drivers, although many programs are designed for Twain. But as awkward, either I have to start the XP Mode, which has not yet times each, or do I have to scan through detours.

Plus points for this scanner:
- Low power consumption, LED technology
- No separate power supply needed, is powered via USB.
- Small, light, flat
- Fast scan
- For some automatic functions, deskew.
- Copy function by pressing a button on Copy. "
- TWAIN and WIA capable.
- Auto function for OCR (text recognition)

Minus points for this scanner:
- About WIA max. 600dpi
- Confusing because of the many options and different ways to achieve something.
- When importing Windows 7 unfavorably of programs for weak WIA.
- Some scanned images I could not find, but somewhere on the disk.

Conclusion: "
Anyone looking for a flexible scanner, the 7 "32-bit" and "64-bit" runs with Windows and usually not much emphasis on high resolution, if needed, but even that can reach with this scanner, which can buy these scanners quiet , Perhaps one should take into account some training time. I have bulged about 8 hours to find out what he can and what he can not. If you, however, warned by my report, you will experience no disappointment, then you know where the weaknesses are. As for the Scan Quallität, I can not complain. But because most scanners are likely ok. be.