Artec AM12E Plus
Scanner-shopping for your home, home office or small office? Do your prerequisites include a cheap price, scanning power and a cool design? Artec’s AM12E Plus might be the answer. Enhanced by 36-bit true color, an optical resolution of 600×1200 dpi (19200 x 19200 dpi with S/W interpolation), and a free bundled software package (MGI Photosuite SE, Xerox TextBridge Classic OCR, Microsoft Internet Explorer) included, the AM12E Plus combines ease-of-use with the necessary power.
Smart Money Magazine gave a terse nod of approval in their March 1999 issue. “WORTH IT:
With Ultima ViewStation AM12E Plus flatbed scanner ($89.50; www.scanneroutlet.com or 510-739-0800), you can route Junior’s fetching birthday photo, fax, file or clipboard. The enclosed software allows you to edit images and make greeting cards and calendars. Picture quality is as good as it gets; 600 x 1,200 dots-per-inch resolution and 36-bit true color (i.e., it can "read" 68 billion colors).”
Computerworld Magazine did also, in their similarly timed issue:
March 1, 1999
“Artec/Ultima International
www.artecusa.com
$99.95
The most amazing thing about this product is its price. The Artec ViewStation AM12E lists at a mere $99.95 for a 36-bit, 600-dpi resolution color scanner, complete with all the software you need for basic scanning tasks.
Simply attach the AM12E Plus to your parallel port (it includes a pass-through so you can still use your printer). Plug in the AC adapter. Install the software, which includes device drivers, TextBridge Classic 2.0 OCR software, the Ixla Photo Scanner Suite, a photo editor and an online manual. Reboot your system, and you’re set.
Unlike some inexpensive scanners, the AM12E Plus is relatively quiet. It isn’t fast enough for production work, but it’s more than sufficient for scanning the occasional image.
The scanner’s configuration software offers a wide array of options to help tweak images — everything from color depth to resolution to hue and saturation to color levels. A button on the front lets you prescan, or scan and print, documents.
If you want an easy-to-use, inexpensive scanner for creating Web pages or noncritical business documents, the AM12E Plus will deliver.
—Christopher Lindquist”
For a complete summary of the Artec AM12E Plus, visit our product page.
This article was last modified on June 30, 2023
This article was first published on March 23, 2000
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