Plustek A320E Opticpro Scanner, 12"x17" Scan Area, 800dpi Scan Resolution, 400mm Length, 623mm Width, 140mm Height

Before buying this A3 scanner I did a lot of research and also balked at some of the eye-watering prices they were being sold for! I finally decided I needed to buy one when I inherited all my late father's family tree 'doodles' on loads and loads of A3 sheets of paper. I also had some scrap-books of my wife’s school projects that needed to be preserved. Trying to scan and stich all these using my A4 scanner was daunting! After reading many, many reviews I decided upon this scanner because it had a CCD scanning head, which gives a better focus of uneven documents. A number of reviews complained about the build quality, colour rendition, and how noisy it was. It's none of these things, well maybe a bit noisy, but it’s fast, well-built, and gives very good quality scans. I love it!

Worked straight out of the box, thought I might have issues with connection to my MacBook Air as had to use a third party USB-B to USB-C cable as MacBook only has USB-C connectors, no worries with that as connected seamlessly with no problem and produced an excellent A3 coloured pencil drawing scan at 600 DPI with my first attempt. Reproduction was impressive with excellent clarity and resolution, early days yet but so far very impressed with the Plustek A320E. Driver and software downloaded from Plustek rather than using the DVD provided.

For the price, I wouldn’t even pay a tenner for this machine. My brothers cheap Espon is so much better. There is no clarity in the scan. It is so blurry, I bought it because I needed to scan embossed sheets with watermarks and authentication strips holograms etc because of CCD it has 3d scanning in theory but this machine was so bad.

I've had it about 2 weeks and I've been putting it thru all the paces! It's quick, accurate and simple. I'm attempting to digitize 40 years of family photo albums along with various other family mementos for safekeeping. My album pages look great (and don't require further cropping unless I go back to eliminate the hole punches), Easily scans up to the 12x17 it advertises and for larger than 12x17 just 2 scans and PhotoShop photomerge create 1 excellent image! This was exactly what I needed at a cost I could justify. Customer support even has an online chat option for quick answers.

Just what I needed for the large magazine and books I need to scan

scanner respectueux des dessins originaux.

It might not be the quality of a scanner of $5000, but my scanned artwork came out as good as with my Epson PerfectionV600 photo, with the advantage that now I don't have to scan two halves and merge them after. I am very happy with this scanner. My scanned pictures are not for professional reproduction. I haven't tested to scan a photo, so I can't tell about that.

I am using this to scan documents for family history and a research project, and the ease of operation is great. I bought it for the size of the bed for oversize documents and it has worked perfectly. I did have a small issue with set-up and jumped on a live chat with tech support - solving the problem in less than 5 minutes.