While the Memorex's depth of field allows users to scan objects up to 2.5 inches in height, it's a slow performer with a frustrating interface, and its image quality is subpar. Such scans are of just so-so quality, however. Sharpness is uneven, and the scanner's variable illumination can make the sides of objects unacceptably dark. Colors are dark and muddy and shadow details are indistinct. Traditional 2-D scans are also disappointing.
Colors are muddy, and details are lost in the highlights.
The Twain interface appears simple to use at first glance, but it's actually difficult to adjust the settings to improve image quality, in part because the prescan image preview may appear significantly different from what the scanned image looks like on a computer monitor or as a hard-copy print. There's also a paucity of image-correcting prescan tools. Worse yet, we found that the scanner often produced different images at identical settings, including the defaults. Memorex plans to fix the problem soon. Sluggish performance and mediocre image quality make this unit tough to recommend, unless you need to scan small objects, not just photos and documents.