As you might guess from its steep price, the Microtek ArtixScan M1 Pro ($750 street) is aimed at professional photographers and graphic artists, as well as serious amateurs. Even more precisely, it's aimed at those folks with large collections of photos and film who want to move their media to a digital format. Given the target audience, it's fair to say that for the MI even more so than most other scanners, scan quality is by far the most important issue. The good news is the M1 delivers on that score for both prints and film. Unfortunately, that's not the whole story—but more on that later.