Microtek 9830XL Plus A3 Scanner

The Microtek ScanMaker 9830XL Plus is built for people who can't afford to lose detail artists, designers, photographers and studios digitising work that genuinely matters. With a generous A3 scanning area, it swallows oversized originals like artworks, architectural drawings and posters whole, so there's no stitching multiple scans together and no risk of losing accuracy along the seams.

Where this scanner really shines is flexibility. Its dual light source switches between single and dual light modes, so you can pull out shadow depth and texture on textured artworks, or smooth away crease shadows on flatter originals. Add true 1600 x 3200 dpi optical resolution and 48-bit colour depth, and you've got a machine that captures subtle tonal gradations as faithfully as bold colour.

This is a scanner built around getting the capture right the first time.