Microtek

Microtek is a name that usually suggests electronics, imaging gear, or office hardware, the kind of company people associate with scanners, printers, or related peripherals. By our assessment, that sort of brand can be attractive when it is tied to practical equipment with a simple job and a plain product line. The weakness is that Microtek is too brief to tell you which of those worlds it actually occupies, so the name does some work and also hides some. In use, a company like this tends to be judged on compatibility, durability, and whether its devices stay boring in the best way. It sits in the old-school hardware camp, where functional reputation matters more than style. Microtek is more a maker’s label than a promise of excitement.