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 enlarge | Brand: Epson
Category: CE
List Price: $249.99
Buy New: $199.89
You Save: $50.10 (20%)
New (50) Used (2) Refurbished (1) from $198.99
Rating:  81 reviews
Color: silver
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 14
Dimensions (in): 7 x 15 x 21
nv:Scanner Type: Flatbed
Scanner Element: Epson MatrixCCD line sensor
Optical Resolution: 6400 dpi
Hardware Resolution: 6400 x 9600 dpi
Maximum Document Size: 8.5" x 11.7"
Color Depth: 48-bit
Gray Scale Depth: 16-bit
Interface Connectivity: USB 2.0
Power Source: AC Adapter
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: B11B189011
Model: B11B189011
UPC: 010343865372
EAN: 0010343865372
ASIN: B000VG4AY0
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: New, factory sealed, fast shipping
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Showing reviews 6-10 of 81
 Unable to Setup on PC with Vista. Photoshop Software not Vista-Supported. September 25, 2008
W. Munro
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well, I've spent over 2 hours trying to install the scanner software on my PC running Vista Ultimate, and so far have not succeeded. The basic software to run the scanner won't start, so I am currently dead in the water.
Hopefully, I'll get this worked out and be able to update this review with scanner performance details.
Also, while the product description for this scanner says that it is designed and optimized for Windows Vista, the included version of Photoshop Elements software is version 4.0, released in 2005. The current version of Photoshop Elements is 6.0. Version 4.0 seems to open and may function somewhat in Vista, but it is not supported for Vista, and you do get a "known compatibility issues exist with this software" warning when you launch it.
 Fascinating and a great value September 25, 2008
Jerry Saperstein (Evanston, IL USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a remarkable, fun and useful device.
Just a few years ago, you would have had to pay through the nose to get a slide and film scanner this good.
Now it is affordable, simple to use and a lot of fun to boot, You really learn quickly that that the slides and negatives you thought were focused sharp as a tack, weren't.
The Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 included with the package will not work with Vista and it is at least two versions behind. Still a good, useful package, though.
Setup could not be easier, as it generally is with Epson products. Setup instructions are on a single two-sided sheet. Make sure you follow each step, because there are a couple of "gotchas" for the impatient.
The unit ships with a carrier for 35mm film strips and 2x2 slides. You can insert two film strips (12 exposures) or four slides.
The Epson Scan application is reasonably well featured, but some may want to consider specialized third-party scanning applications.
You can scan at up to 1200dpi optical resolution.
Scanning speed is nothing to write home about. In fact, it is on the slow side.
The results on both slides and negatives are excellent. The dust removal feature works well and the backlight color correction less so.
For documents, the Abby Fine Reader works well for simple OCR. You can also scan directly to Adobe PDF or email.
Overall, this is a great value for the money. If you have a moderate qyantity of prints, slides and 35mm negatives you want to convert to digital, it's wonderful. For ordinary scanning of documents and light OCR, it is also excellent. You can, by the way, get an ADF (Automatic Docment Feeder) for the unit.
Jerry
Impressive, Big and Impressive, Very Impressive September 25, 2008
Vesta Irene (the Pacific Northwest)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I wanted a slide scanner because I've got a lot of slides my husband and I took four decades ago. We have no way to view them, other than to hold them up to a light, not very satisfactory. So, I was really looking forward to this.
When it came I was surprised at the size of it. This is a behemoth. I sort of pictured something much smaller, like those little photo scanners you see in the electronic section of Target. And you had to plug it into the wall, my Cannon scanner gets its power from the USB connection. Still, it was in my living room and I had those slides, so I lugged it upstairs, put in on my desk, put the CD into my computer, followed the simple directions and in no time I was good to go.
To my surprise this thing scans photos as well. I don't know why, but I thought it was only a slide and negative scanner. So, I put a photo in, pushed the button and the scanner went to town. Unlike my Cannon scanner and the HP scanner my husband has, this scanner does not work through a Photoshop plug in. That's good, because there are no onscreen clicks I have to do to scan a photo. I just put it in, close the lid, hit a button on the scanner and voila!
I'm going to stop here and say that this machine makes some weird and kind of loud noises when it works. At first I thought it was broken, but no, that's just the language it speaks.
I had the preferences set to 300 dpi and the machine did the job in about a tenth the time of our other two scanners. That was impressive. Next I loaded in four slides. To do that I had to put in the plastic slide tray and slide out the underside of the top of the scanner, so light can pass through the slides. The machine takes four slides at a time.
It takes a couple minutes for it to do the slides, but the output is fantastic. This beast is big, but it does the job and it does it very well, even if it groans its way through the work. I am very, very impressed.
Reviewed by Vesta Irene
 Vista users BEWARE!!!!! September 24, 2008
AE2 (United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Do not believe the icon that says "vista compatible"....it isn't. Neither the software for the scanner nor the adobe photoshop 4.0, which came with the scanner, are Vista compatible. I've never had the difficulties in getting software loaded as I have with this. Can't even get the upgrades to download from the respective company's intenet sites. The scanner gets great reviews, but when the software isn't the right thing, the scanner is useless.
Good, but the color is sometimes way off September 23, 2008
ratyoke (San Diego, CA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Installing the software and hooking up the scanner was done with out a problem on Windows XP. Epson doesn't seem to have forced me to put as much software on my computer as a my Canon scanner.
I am going through Photoshop CS2 to start the scan. That way the scanned photo is open in Photoshop right after scanning so I can crop it or make whatever adjustments I want. Scanning takes a few minutes to scan 12 color negatives, probably about twice as fast as my Canoscan 8800F.
Some of my scans look great. With others the color is not so good. They are just really washed out, the color restoration setting, which is supposed to fix washed out photos doen't help (probably because there was nothing wrong with the photo in the first place). The same image looked ok with my Canon. However, scanning at the same DPI (1200) and comparing the same image at 100%, the scans on the Epson look sharper than the Canon.
The color being rather desaturated in some scans is really my only complaint about this scanner, and that can generally be fixed in Photoshop. Other than that, I'd say its pretty good for the current price.
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