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On Sun, 27 May 2001 13:37:42 +0200, - <g.scholten@nrcnet.nl> wrote:

>Does anybody know if a Windows ME driver exists for the PLUSTEK 4800P ?
>
>The w95 driver does not work, W_ME complains about "scanner dll not 
>found" and "scanner not found"
>
>All recommendations from PLUSTEK such as BIOS settings are 
>implemented without result.

I have/had the same scanner and am running win2k. Finally bought an
Epson 1240U and must say it is 100% better than the old Plustek. My
Plustek is going in the garage sale for 5 or 10 bucks. The win2k
drivers that they offer on the german website do not work with my
system. They do not have ME drivers as far as I can see. Try them at
http://www.plustek.de/seite-e/home.html
There will be no more support as you can see from the two posts that I
copied below.
Plustek RIP.

News flash
Saw an article in PC Magazine that PLUSTEK SCANNERS, In business since
1986 has annouced its
out of business. Its Vice President, of marketing Dave Chen and
ProductManager
Flavio Lago  was apparently terminated alongwith two other people in a
big suffle at the company. 
Much of the problem stems from the poor quality of its scanners and
the low 
price of scanners.In addition, technical support will no longer be
provided
any products. The PLUSTEK webiste is still maintained but email and
support
is non exsistent.(Downloads are still available)
From what was gathered much of the reason for Plustek's demise has to
do in 
large part to poor support, lack of vision in marketing and poor
policy planing
in particular the buying back of scanners not sold in stores in an
effort to keep
up the burn rate and the illusiong of high sales.From what was later
revealed, there
was a lot of returns of plustek scanner so much so that most major
stores no longer
carry Plustek.This probably
Its unlikely that PLUSTEK now regarded as the Packard Bell of the
scanner world 
will be seen anylonger at stores

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PRESS RELEASE

May 

LIVERMORE, CA- Plustek Inc., a leader in the home scanner industry,
announced that it will be
closing its business in the US citing the recession,poor sales and the
competition stemming from the
notably bigger name scanners such as Hewlett Packard, Epson, Logitech
and Visioneer.In addition, Plustek
will no longer provide customer assistance for past products such as
the 4800p, 600p and A3I and other
products though driver downloads should be available for the remainder
of the year.
 The announcement can as a suprise to analyst in the computer
industry. In business since 1986, Plustek
was considered to be a leader in the scanner industry for its parallel
port scanner products and has
recieved some favorable reviews; However sales have declined
considerably over the past year alone.
Poor quality of the scanners including the recent Opticworks 200,0
supposedly for the high end user
market failed miserably owing to poor quality of the scans and
frequent breakdown of the product
prompting.

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