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Microtek ScanMaker i900 Flatbed Scanner | 
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| Brand: Microtek
Category: CE
This item is no longer available
Rating:  32 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 10
Dimensions (in): 27 x 11 x 21
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: i900
Model: i900
UPC: 793111804444
EAN: 0793111804444
ASIN: B00018JMZU
Release Date: June 4, 2004
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| Features:
| • | 6,400 x 3,200 dpi optical resolution | | • | 48-bit color depth, 16-bit grayscale; 4.2 optical density | | • | ColoRescue technology restores faded photos and film | | • | Batch templates for 35mm slides, strips, 6-by-9-cm, and 4-by-5-inch media | | • | USB 2.0 and FireWire IEEE1394 connectivity; PC and Mac compatible |
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Product Description
MICROTEK i900 -- This dual-media Flatbed Scanner delivers uncompromising quality, and comes packed with the tools most needed by today's graphics and photography pros. In addition to a superior 6400 x 3200 dpi optical resolution legal-size scan bed, the i900 offers film scanning in an 8" x 10" lower bay. FireWire ( IEEE-1394 ) & Hi-Speed USB 2.0 Interface (cables included) OS compatibility - Windows 98SE, ME, 2000, XP; OS X v10.2 or later Dimensions - 6.3H x 15.2W 23.6D
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| Customer Reviews: Read 27 more reviews...
 Good scanner but not for beginners August 9, 2008
Tom O (Gaithersburg, MD USA)
The software that comes with this scanner is the weak point, it crashed numerous times. Don't use the CD, download everything from the website. It comes with a pretty complete manual, but the way this software is designed it needs it. They could spend more time explaining what they mean by a batch. Also, to have a transparency scanning area of 8 x 10 and make a carrier that holds two strips of 35mm film is crazy, what about the rest of the area? Their target market should be pros or advanced amateurs who would want a contact sheet of their negatives, preferably without taking them out of their holder, the way I used to do it in my darkroom. The medium format holder is also poorly designed, no pro wants to cut up his negatives to scan them.
 Delighted June 9, 2008
S. Harding (Mesquite, TX USA)
I selected this product because I needed a new scanner and wanted one that could scan my large collection of 35mm slides as well as prints and documents. I have scanned a couple of dozen slides so far and am very pleased with the results. The color is true and the resolution allows for good detail. The software includes Adobe Photoshop Elements, which I had not used before, but I'm finding it easy to pick up. I'm using that to erase the small bits of dust that my pre-cleaning did not completely remove. I would recommend this product for anyone needing to digitize a large number of slides.
Best scanner I've had! June 9, 2008
Gary R. Fuchikami (Hawaii USA)
I bought the i900 because I wanted a scanner that would do slides & negatives besides normal reflective scans. I have an old Scanmaker E6 that is still working great, so I decided on the i900 because it was cheaper than most film scanners and could do more than just film. I considered the i800 but decided against it as it seemed not to be as heavy duty with a cheaper, lighter construction and using a brick power supply rather than an internal supply like the i900. Anyway, at first I was frustrated because trying to scan negatives using ScanWizard was not working. I kept getting images that looked more like a brightly colored mosaic than anything. Finally, just when I was ready to give up, I loaded the supplied SilverFast Ai program and tried scanning negatives with it, and they came out beautifully! (I had ScanWizard's settings correctly set for negative scanning, but something isn't working right in that program; also couldn't get Microtek's website at all; seems to be off-line for the past couple of weeks, but I'm not too concerned since SilverFast works!)
This scanner does a wonderful job scanning negatives; I didn't believe how it could turn those orange-tinted negatives into normal photos. Normal reflective scans are just as good and the scanner is significantly faster than my old E6. This is by far the best scanner I've seen; my next project is to find some of my old slides and see what kind of job it will do with them. I suspect it'll be as great as the negative scans! At the discount prices you can get this scanner for, it is certainly worth considering!
 Spend about $250 for a far superior scanner April 26, 2008
D. Teuber (St. Paul, MN)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm a Mac user so software problems might be different then PC. I bought this scanner in 2006. I'll tell you what you will be in for now and a year and more from now.
The firewire quit functioning on the first one I got so I sent it back under warranty. The firewire quit working about a week after the warranty expired on the second and I was told I could have the scanner replaced with a refurbished one for $250. Believe me the scanner isn't worth it.
The software that comes with it makes you think the scanner is faster then it when using their ScanWizard software. I scanned a 5x7 inch photo at 4800dpi and it took about 3 minutes. Sounds great but the the scans are fuzzy, out of focus. It's like scanning at 72dpi and increasing the resolution to 4800dpi.The file size reflected this too at over 100mb of space. You can boost all the settings and get a half way decent scan but then your back to a very slow scan which sub-par to the SilverFast software they also luckily send with the scanner. SilverFast is a much better program in all repects. I didn't even install their software after reinstalling my system. SilverFast is all you need on a Mac. Besides they boost optical density as 4.2. Optical density, at it's best is only 4. How can this one be 4.2?
Color and density is about medium quality. Luckily I have Photoshop to fix color problems but I can't make the density they say I should have..
I had the same guy more then once also when calling customer service, like previously noted in an earlier review. Probably the same guy. I needed updated calibration data because their charts didn't match the data that came with the scanner. They said they would email it and never did. So I called back and they told me to go to Kodaks website and after about an hour of searching I finally found the data files I needed. Now I don't even calibrate. I don't even think the calibration capability works.
I often have to scan old photos in more then one direction. I found out that scans are out of proportion. I scanned a photo in all four directions. It took me about three hours to align them.
Now the scanner doesn't scan in grayscale. I usually scan in color anyway for editing but it just goes to show the quality of thiis terrible scanner. I will never buy anything Microtek again and I told them that. I feel like I have wasted $465 because I know I need to buy a truer scanner.
 Good scanner with software from h*ll April 24, 2008
Sleavowitz (New England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Microtek has always made good hardware and always provided a challenge in terms of its software - hence the professional photographer who sold me her i900 because she "couldn't figure out how to make it work." When running this scanner on Mac OS X Leopard, all kinds of fun awaits - and I do computers for a living. The Microtek ScanWizard software is rated to run on Leopard, but causes the scanner to make sounds like someone hitting it with a ballpeen hammer, and then it locks up. LaserSoft's usually reliable Silverfast software (I paid to cross-grade my long-running SilverFast account to this scanner) works beautifully - once - and then crashes, and locks up the scanner too. Importing into Photoshop (CS3) using the SilverFast or ScanWizard plug-in causes Photoshop to quit unexpectedly.
So... I'm getting ready to do just what the photographer did, and try and find someone with lots of extra time on their hands to de-bug how to get this scanner to do what it's supposed to do.
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