UMAX Astra 3450

Rather compact, excellent price, scanning positive image is very well

Poor software, problems with USB, scanning of color negatives is bad

The ASTRAs are alright scanners, as is this one. But don't be fooled into thinking it will work with a Mac by the description. UMAX has announced they will never support OSX for these scanners. So You have to run a clunky scanner utility in os9 to get...

I have used this scanner for over a year and have been very pleased with it. I have not have any problems with it installed of two different operating systems (Win 98 SE and Win 2000). The OCR software that came with the unit is much better than...

This is an average scanner. The main attraction of this particular model is that it can scan bigger transparencies, while most scanners that offer this feature at all are limited to 35mm negs or slides. The lid tends to make books slide out of place...

This is an average scanner. The main attraction of this particular model is that it can scan bigger transparencies, while most scanners that offer this feature at all are limited to 35mm negs or slides. The lid tends to make books slide out of place...

Spent a couple of months e-mailing, calling and never got customer service. The phone just rings and rings. E-mails nevered answered and that was almost 10 months ago. I fixed it by unplugging unit over night and repluging it in after it just quit...

Spent a couple of months e-mailing, calling and never got customer service. The phone just rings and rings. E-mails nevered answered and that was almost 10 months ago. I fixed it by unplugging unit over night and repluging it in after it just quit...

When it works it's good. After a few months the Umax 3450 decided to scan the underside of it's lid and send it to the printer whenever it felt like it, which seemed to be once or twice a day. It also intermittently scanned only mono in a shade of red....

This scanner's flaws... hmm... where to begin. First, the driver GPF'd if I didn't have the scanner powered on during boot up. So, I always had it powered on when the computer was on. Then there developed a problem with the scans. I'd get bands of red...

I bought this headache a year ago and I have NEVER gotten it to work properly with either of two different computers and two different operating systems (Windows 2000 and XP). Recommend to avoid it because of poor product design and support.