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Buyer's feedback: - * Perfect for this Professional Illustrator/ Designer ...
This product was everything I needed! As a professional illustrator and graphic designer, I not sure what else you could ask for in a large format scanner. The image quality it fantastic... why would anyone pay $2000 or more for the ability to scan at a resolution above 1600 dpi?! The human eye can only determine a quality distinction at around 240 to 300 dpi... so you would only need to scan things at a higher resolution (than 300 dpi) if you plan on enlarging the original image or object being scanned. For example, if you were to scan a 4" x 6" photograph in this scanner at maximum resolution (1600 dpi), the resulting scan would be equivalent to 21.334" x 32" at 300 dpi. The gist of my review: this scanner should suit the needs of most professionals at a fraction of the cost of other A3 scanners. Great product!

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Buyer's feedback: - A lot of scanner for the money - works on a Mac
Like others, I was wary that this might not work on a Mac, but I had it up and running in under 5 minutes. Mac users must install the Twain driver from the included CD and access it through Photoshop ( I'm using CS2 ) using the import function. Scan speed is slow and the colors will need some tweaking in Photoshop, but no big deal, considered how much money I saved versus buying other large format scanners.

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Buyer's feedback: - * The best you can do for the money on the Mac ...
I was a bit wary about whether this thing would work on my Mac or not, but I got it working.

I'm using a MacMini 1.25 ghz (G4 powerpc) running OSx 10.4.11. I'm using Photoshop CS3 to scan.

First I installed the driver called "Twain" from the cd. It worked, but the color was really off, kind of a monotone red. So then I installed the package called "English" as well.

After that it worked as I expected. I open Photoshop, then go to "Import" and choose "Scan Express 1200 A3" or similar. This will bring up a rudimentary scanning application.

I say rudimentary because I was unable to find any descreening controls. Some scanners do this automagically, but not this one. So if you scan printed materials, expect to see the dot pattern in the scan. I was able to mitigate this effect somewhat by using the "Blur" filter.

Luckily this doesn't matter too much for me, since I'll be mostly scanning in my own line work for comics, but others may want to know this.

When the scan is finished, it pops right up in Photoshop for you to do with as you will.

Also, this program has the LONGEST preview mode I have ever encountered. The preview takes literally as long or longer than the actual scan. Wow. But I really just can't complain too much because the price was so right.

I would have given this thing 5 stars if not for the preview and descreening issue. Aside from that though, i really have to thank Mustek for making an actual AFFORDABLE tabloid size scanner.

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Buyer's feedback: - Good product for the money
I was initially hesitant to buy this scanner due to the negative reviews I'd read, and the fact that it's the only affordable large-size scanner on the market (I was afraid that Mustek's apparent monopoly would negatively affect the quality of the product).
I'm glad to report, however, that the Scan Express is a decent scanner. There is some small color distortion (which is typical for any scanner) but it matches close enough that a few tweaks in Photoshop will fix the problem. Scanning is a bit slow, and as other reviewers have noted, your computer does start to slow down after several scans, but it's nothing that will make you pull your hair out in rage.
I haven't tried the software bundled with the program since I typically import images using Photoshop (which works just fine with this machine).
I'm very, very pleased with the Scan Express and I'd recommend it to any other artists who uses large canvases.

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Buyer's feedback: - * Awesome. ...
Maybe some people have gotten lemons, but the one we got rules. If you know how to download a driver (ours had the driver on a cd that came with the scanner too) you should have no problem using this scanner on a mac with photoshop (we use it with CS3) and with USB 1.1 or 2.0 (we've used it on both)