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Plustek OpticBook 3600 is your simple innovative solution to scanning books. With Plusteks patent pending SEE (Shadow Elimination Element) Technology, any book can lie completely flat on the scanning glass. the result is a perfect scanned image with no annoying book spine shadow and no distorted lines of text.
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By andrewv1 (Houston, TX USA)
I'm pleasantly surprised that the Mac Beta Software works so well on the first go around. My question though is why Epson and Canon among others have not targeted the Book Scanning Market like Plustek?
By B. Williams (Portland, OR USA)
I bought this scanner hoping to use it with my Mac. The Mac OS is not listed under the system requirements, but since it's supposedly TWAIN compliant I assumed it would work with Apple's built-in Image Capture application. Most of the time system requirements for simple devices such as printers, cameras and scanners refer specifically to the (crummy) software bundled along with them.
This scanner does not work with the Mac at all. Image Capture is unable to recognize it. Same with Photoshop. I looked around on Plustek's website for a possible Mac download, but was unable to find any. Then I decided I'd pack it up and return it to Amazon. My bad, I should have taken the requirements at face value.
But then I saw a sticker on the box. "If your Plustek product is not working properly DO NOT RETURN TO PURCHASE STORE. Please contact Plustek Customer Support [...] Or call [...]
What the hell, I figured, I can give them a chance. Maybe they'll at least be friendly and let me down gently. So I dialed. "Hello?" a man said. I thought I'd mis-dialed, and reached some unaware residential phone. I checked the number on my phone's display. Nope, not a mistake, the number's correct. "Hello. Is this Plustek?" I asked. "Yeah," he replied. "Oh, okay. I'm calling for support." His response was a quick, "They're all gone for the day." Followed by a disconnected line.
And so I'm returning the product. I wish I were able to review its quality and functionality here. I'm sure it's a pretty good machine when paired with Microsoft Windows. But the company, Plustek, is not one I'd like to encounter ever again.
By Hung V. Nguyen (Huntsville)
I agree with the other reviewers here that the Opticbook 3600 is great when it does
work. But it does not last. I got the Opticbook 3600 in June 2009 and used it
for about 4 months. Then after about 3 months of inactivity I started it up again
and discovered that the color and grayscale scan quality has badly degraded. I called the customer service but like the other reviewers have said, no one there
to talk to you. I am not happy with this product but it is the only scanner
that can scan book. Does anyone here have the same problem?
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Following the advice of a reviewer here I uninstalled the software and reinstalled it and it is working fine now. When it is working this is a great product but it
does have some unstable behavior like this. I am undating my rating from two stars to four stars.
By Paul D. Keyes
I bought my scanner from Plustek about 3 years ago. After ~300 scans the lamp started having issues warming up. I would have to power off and on the Scanner numerous times before the lamp would fully warm up. I called Plustek support and arranged to have the scanner fixed under warranty. Plustek could not find anything wrong with the scanner and sent it back. The only thing I could think of was my power, so I bought a power conditioner but it did not help. I ended up putting my scanner in storage after that. I could not bear to throw it away after paying so much for it. I found a patch on the Plustek site 2 years later that addressed the issue. I installed the patch but my scanner still had issues. I contacted Plustek support to see if they had any other fixes for the device. The tech told me that it was a known issue but because my scanner was out of warrant I would need to send my scanner into Plustek along with a 100 dollars and they would fix. I recounted the scanner's history and that the issue was simply not understood at the time I sent it in when it was under warranty. The tech recomended I get on Ebay and by a new scanner. Plustek simply doesn't care that I received a broken scanner with known issues and insists that I need to pay for shipping (again) and pay another 100 dollars to get it fixed. Plustek is not a company I plan on doing business with again and I recommend you don't ether.
By Berta L. Magran
Este scanner tiene una particularidad, además de la de poder escanear libros sin que le cree la mancha oscura en la unión del libro (en el medio), los botones son de un tamaño de muy fácil uso; en mi caso particular, me ahorra mucho tiempo el escaneo entre una hoja y otra, los escáneres convencionales, hay que tomar el ratón (mouse) y con el cursor apuntar un botón en particular, lo que te llevaba tiempo y energia, en este escaner, tocar el botón es cuestión de un segundo, y se hace un acto reflejo, lo cual te beneficia en tiempo de trabajo, ahorro, es una maravilla, el software es muy fácil de usar y de instalar, es muy rápido. Se ve que es un producto muy bien estudiado y probado. Nunca pensé que hubiese un producto similar, las grandes compañias como HP, Canon, Fujitsu, Epson, etc. no tienen un producto similar a este.
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