VIISAN 3120 A3 Flatbed Scanner, 1200 DPI, CIS Sensor, Scan 11.7" x 16.7" in 8 sec, Frameless, Auto-Scan, Document & Photo & Book Scanner, Design for Library, School and Soho. Supports Windows & Mac

I agonised over whether I needed to own and store an A3 scanner and whether it would be good enough quality at this price. I've now scanned many documents at 600 and 1200 dpi and am quite happy with the results. I use Linux Simple scan most and it just works.

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I bought this, hoping to get an affordable A3 scanner. I saw the other reviews mentioning the bad color balance and thought it couldn't be THAT bad. It was worse. Every scan had washed out colors and had a very yellow hue. Adjusting the image in the included software did little and I just couldn't get it anywhere close to the actual thing being scanned. My scanner/printer combo was more accurate and didn't require post-processing. Scans also had streaks in them where they don't exist on the physical item. And it's not a case of a dirty scanning area; this was straight out of the box. Even worse is that I strongly suspect this isn't a true A3 scanner. Every scan, even a blank white piece of paper, had a 1-pixel line down it, exactly where the middle of the scanner is, in one of the aforementioned streaks. I'm guessing the scan bar is made of two units and the images are joined in post. This line makes it absolutely useless for the archiving job I bought it for. Save your money and hope for a deal on one from an established brand.

I recently got it. I tested out just to see it works. I am impressed at all the features it has. I am an artist and I needed a scanner that folds open at the short end not the horizontal sides. This will be easier to scan sections of large artwork I do to peace back together in Photoshop. I read the instructions and it is a feather where it says it can scan sections together. If this is true I won't have to open up Photoshop to piece together scanned sections of large art. This scanner is about same width as typing paper but longer then 11" typing paper. So it will easil scan legal paper. I am very impressed with all the features this scanner has. It is amazing. I hope they all work.

The packaging was good. Pulled out everything started reading the directions. I couldn't get it loaded onto my computer. Had to ask my son to come over to see if he can get it to load onto my computer. Took him about an hour and a half to get it set up. He had to go and get the information off the internet. And downloaded everything from there. On the box it said I was supposed to get a dvd with instructions on it. Never received. It was very disappointed that it took as long as it did to get it set up.