Microtek ScanMaker 3840

The ScanMaker 3840 flatbed scanner from Microtek supports one touch scanning and has an optical resolution of 1200X2400 with 48-bit color depth and 16-bit grayscale depth. It has a USB interface and is very easy to setup. The default software is Microtek Scan Wizard 5, which is also very easy to use. The scanner comes with three convenient push buttons on the front panel, which can be used directly to scan, scan and print, scan and e-mail. Last two buttons can work only if you have properly configured your printer and e-mail client on the system.

Scanner performed satisfactorily in our speed tests. It took around 12 secs to do a preview scan for the first time and subsequently took 8 secs. While scanning an A4 size color image it took 46 secs for 300 dpi image, 2 mins and 4 secs for 600 dpi and a whole 8 mins for 1200 dpi image. Results were impressive with crisp scans, well-differentiated colors and clear screen images.

The scanner includes other bundled software such as ABBY Fine Reader, Sprint 4 OCR, Ulead Photo Explorer 7.0, and Adobe photo Deluxe 4.

Overall, it is a good buy for small offices and homes.

Siddharth Sharma