Plustek OpticFilm 7200 Film Scanner
October 10, 2007
Scanners can be classified into image scanners, document scanners and film scanners. Image and document scanners are mostly used in home or office. But film scanners are mostly used by professionals like photographers to get high quality scanning. This film scanning units are manufactured with advanced technology. Plustek Optic Film is a manufacturing company which has been sold Plustek OpticFilm 7200 Film Scanner which scans films efficiently.
• Optical resolution
This unit has the ability to produce resolution up to 7200 dots per inch.
• Slides
This unit has the stuff to make a maximum of 35 millimetres slides with high class printing quality.
• Interface
This product is availed with USB 2.0 interface for fast connectivity.
• Illuminate viewer
It is an essential element equipped with the unit to view mounted slides as well as negatives. This element is fixed on the top of the unit.
• Software
It has already loaded with a high class image editing software.
• Software solution
Make use of software solution to simply remove dust and scratches.
• Film Holders
It uses film holders that are needed for mounting film strips and slides and these holders are designed as user-friendly unit.
• Cover
The manufacture offers a magnetic cover in addition to the unit to keep the unit away from duct and debris.
• Quick scan
It is a useful feature, which helps you to take scan just by one touch. There are lots of scanning settings available.
• CCD Image sensor
It is used in this scanning unit to take colour images.
• Hardware resolution
The hardware resolution capacity of the unit has come around 7200 x 7200 dots per inch.
• Scanning area
The user can use an area up to 36.8 x 25.4 millimetres for scanning.
• Preview speed
The user can preview the image within 10 seconds.
• Scanning speed
This unit has the capability to scan just by 48 seconds with the resolution up to 3600 dots per inch.
• Colour depth
It has come with 48 bit colour depth.
• Weight
The unit has been marketed around the UK with 1.35 kilo grams approximately.
• Scanner Dimensions
This scanning unit has been manufactured and marketed with the dimensions 272 x 120 x 119 millimetres as depth, width and height.
• Other features
The users can get other benefits by using the unit namely:
1. Single pass scan mode.
2. Cold cathode lamp
3. Film holder
4. Mounted slides
5. 6 frames etc.
• Must-have system requirements
The user has to fulfil all the system requirements namely:
1. IBM Compatible PC,
2. Pentium II or faster CPU,
3. CD-ROM Driver,
4. One available USB Port,
5. 128 MB RAM (256MB recommended),
6. 160 MB free HDD space (300 MB recommended),
7. High Colour graphic card (VGA or higher),
8. Microsoft Windows XP, Me, 98, 2000 etc.
Plustek Optibook 3600 Scanner
October 1, 2007
Plustek, one of the leaders in the electronic suppliers has now added a new one to its lists of supplies. They have introduced to you the all new Plustek 
Optibook 3600 Scanner with its detailed feature explanations that will match both your budget and your requirement at the same time. This new model is uniquely designed to eliminate the book spine shadow and the distorted text that is the drawback of most of the scanners and copying machines.
Take a look into its features
• It uses a high speed USB 2.0 connection.
• The speed of scan is as fast as 7 sec for an A4 size for colour scanning or grey scanning or for B/W scanning with 300 dpi of resolution.
• It is also enhanced with a Reversible Reflective Document Mat that is built in the lid of the Scanner.
• Supported with White backing in the case of normal scans, and black backing for auto cropping it again give a clear scanned image for the thinnest pages. Thus covering most of the common problems we are used to in our normal scanners or copying machines.
The scanner from Plustek is provided with an intellilock. This intellilock protects the optical system in the scanner with it’s lock/unlock mechanism, giving more value and security to it. It is designed with Ergonomic desktop design that is helpful for stress free working with the scanner. One can transfer the images saved to CDs or VCDs with much ease and the Book Pilot software provided with the scanner helps in storing and arranging the images scanned with ease categorizing it for its easy retrieval.
It is a Flatbed Scanner with an optical scan resolution of 1200 x 1200 dpi, and has a maximum scan resolution of 24000 x 24000 dpi. This Plustek Optibook 3600 Scanner works on Microsoft Windows 98/ME/2000/XP.
The maximum colour depth supported is 48 bit and that of Gray depth is 16 bit. It has to be loaded manually and it supports plain papers along with bulk objects like books. It is compatible with PCs and uses a Colour CCD image sensor technology for its scanning. There are a few action buttons provided for its easy use. For regular scanning one gets to use the action buttons that supports Custom, E-mail, Copy, OCR and Scan button active. In the case of book scan the action buttons that are active are the Book Pilot, Preview, colour scan, greyscale scan, and the text scan buttons.
The scan mode is Single Pass Scanning and has a Cold Cathode Lamp in it. The amount of power consumption is 18W while it is operating and 4.3W while it is idle. The maximum scanning area provided by this Plustek Optibook 3600 Scanner is 216 x 297 mm that is equivalent to an A4 letter size or 8.5” x 11.69”. The cable length it gives is 150 cm or 59.06” and has a dimension of 4.1 x 11.2 x 17.8 (H x W x D) inches.
