About us
Welcome to our world
Here at Scan we’ve spent over 30 years focusing on just three things – technology, people, and how we bring them together. Whatever your passion, be it PC gaming, professional graphics, video editing, music production, high performance compute or artificial intelligence – we have a team of specialists ready and waiting to help you find exactly what you need, even if it’s just some good friendly advice. Our family of over 400 teammates live and breathe our 3XS philosophy of providing customers with the best Specification, Service and Satisfaction, which is reflected by the hundreds of media and industry awards Scan has won, and by more than 25,000 positive reviews on Trustpilot.
Specification What we know. Inside out. Computers, Components, Gaming, Audio, Video, Graphics, HPC, AI, Cloud and Digital Signage. We build bespoke computer systems for them all - inspired by our experience.
Services How we do things. People-focused. Going the extra mile. Passionate about giving people what they need. Build relationships and nurture loyalty. Speed. On-time deliveries.
Satisfaction What sets us apart. Our depth of understanding and guidance. Innovative and visionary sourcing. Award-winning service and custom builds. The reasons people keep coming back.
Since 1987 we have attended hundreds of industry events & supplied IT solutions to thousands of businesses across the world.
Meet the Scan Family of Brands
Alongside the Scan brand sits 3XS, our system build division, that underpins all our specialist Scan and Scan Business brands. An expert team of system architects work to develop PCs, workstations, laptops and servers tailor-made for the specific audience of each of our main Scan brand four specialist sub brands - Pro Gaming, Pro Audio, Pro Video and Pro Graphics. Each of these divisions is built on dedicated expertise in their particular field and features its own website, sales teams and technical experts. Additionally, each also has a dedicated Scanshot newsletter offering updates relevant to that specific industry.
Scan Pro Gaming is the home of the fastest gaming desktop PCs and laptops to give you that competitive edge. We also stock a huge range of peripherals to improve your gaming experience, from keyboards and mice, to G-Sync monitors and gaming headsets, plus video streaming technology for sharing your best gaming moments.
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The Scan Pro Audio team is made up of music professionals including top producers, composers, DJ’s, instrumentalists and engineers. Our depth of knowledge and hand selected range provides the perfect base for all of your musical needs - whether its instruments, accessories, digital audio workstation technology or studio equipment.
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The Scan Pro Video team offers solutions and support to all aspects of the industry - from professional editors, digital artists and vloggers - to cinematographers, photographers, colourists and DITs. We supply a handpicked range of professional video equipment for studio, streaming and broadcast scenarios.
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Scan Pro Graphics develops workstations and servers for graphics intensive workloads - optimised for a wide variety of applications and industries including CAD & CAE, AEC & BIM and Media & Entertainment. Our portfolio also includes virtualised GPU solutions for VDI, graphics and rendering.
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Beneath our main Scan Business brand sit a further four specialist sub brands - again supported by 3XS Systems and built on dedicated expertise in their particular field and designed to address the challenges of any size organisation. Each specialist Business brand has its own website, sales teams and technical experts and consultants.
Scan IT provides a one stop shop for all your infrastructure needs - from workstations to servers, storage to networking, services to consultancy. Our team are experts in providing high performance datacentre solutions to support high demand applications such as HPC, AI, virtual GPU and analytics.
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The Scan AI team acts as a dedicated specialist extension to Scan IT to decipher and advise the rapidly evolving world of machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence. Our team of experts are hands-on practitioners of data science and certified by the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute to help further your organisation's knowledge.
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Scan Cloud provides high performance virtualised compute and graphics platforms to complement our physical system portfolio and bring the power of 3XS Systems to any device, anywhere. Our cloud solutions are hosted in a variety of secure datacentres around the UK, in order to provide bespoke services for any size of organisation.
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The Scan Digital Signage and Analytics team offers interactive marketing and operational control room solutions based on interactive displays, video walls, a wide array of sensors and intuitive software platforms. Our team of experts support a variety of industries including healthcare, retail, media and entertainment.
LEARN MORE >Experts in our field
From software to hardware to expert technical advice and care, there’s nothing we don’t know about tech – after all we’ve got hundreds of awards, and thousands of positive reviews on Trustpilot, so we must know a thing or two about what makes good customer service.
Thousands of reviews on Truspilot with an average score of 4.7 out of 5 we know something about what makes good service.
Scan Computers is proud to announce that we have been accredited as an Investor in People.
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Scan Computers has implemented and maintains ISO standards for quality management, environmental, management, information security and business continuity.
FIND OUT MORE >Our HQ
Our impressive 26,000 sq ft headquarters in Bolton is home to everything Scan. We have our showroom where we demonstrate and display our huge range of PCs, computer hardware, peripherals, monitors, audio and video equipment from leading brands including Intel, NVIDIA, Asus, Blade, DJI, Black Magic and Lacie. We also have an onsite warehouse, a dedicated call centre, our state of the art 3XS factory and an in house studio where we filmed all our Scan shows.
Visit our showroom to view the latest technology from our partners for gaming, pro audio, pro video and pro graphics. We offer an order online and collect in store service and we are open 6 days a week, with experts on hand to answer your questions and queries
Opening times:
Monday to Friday - 9am to 17:30pm
Saturday – 10am to 4pm
At our HQ in Bolton we have dedicated teams overseeing the purchasing, marketing, sales, customer services and IT. We also have a team of Scan Account Managers who work closely with our business customers, to support, advice and find the right bespoke solutions. In addition to the traditional departments, Scan also have their very own Film Studio to assist in driving content through our marketing channels.
3XS Systems has been building thousands of custom PCs, workstations, laptops and servers a month in our state-of-the-art factory in the UK for more than 10 years. Our team of engineers has racked up more than 293 awards in the press for supplying High Performance Personal Computers and IT Hardware.
Scan stock over 70,000 products, all shipped from our UK warehouses. With a dedicated logistics, warehousing and customer services team, we ship over 2000 parcels a day, worldwide. With state of the technology, we can also track and report on parcel statuses from order through to shipping and delivery.
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Join us in our mission to dominate all things tech. From taking over the e-sports industry with our bespoke gaming systems to helping solve the world’s most difficult problems through Deep Learning and AI.
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