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Epson Perfection V200 Color Scanner Review
With automatic scanning, one-touch photo restoration, and 4800 DPI resolution this versatile performer brilliantly scans photos, film and even 3D objects.
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Epson Perfection V200 Color Scanner Feature
- Scans documents up to 4800 dpi for incredible clarity
- One-touch scan, email, copy, and scan to PDF buttons
- Includes powerful photo restoration software
- Unique 180-degree lid allows for scanning of 3D objects
- Measures 16.9 x 11 x 2.2 inches (WxDxH) and weighs 5.7 pounds
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74 of 77 people found the following review helpful.
Good hardware, horrible (Mac) software
By D. Blackburn
I have owned three different scanners in the last eight years. This one has the best scanner and the worst software of any of them. Five stars for the hardware and one for the software averages to three stars.
The hardware is quite nice, attractive and slim design with a side-opening high-capacity lid for bound material. The scans are good too, and hardware installation was trivial, just power brick and USB cable. Scans are very rapid through USB 2.0 interface.
Now for the bad news. The included software bundle is junk. Installation from the included CD uses a non-standard installer (what's wrong with Apple's Installer?), requires multiple license agreements, and spews four or five small applications all over your Apps folder. The "install log", rather than saying what was installled (and where) just says "Application installed successfully". Too bad these applications are useless. There are old and poorly ported versions of stuff that was probably written for Windows 98. Although the TWAIN drivers are compatible with Apple's "Image Capture" application, they don't play well with other software and so you pretty much are forced to use the clunky interface provided by Epson.
The scanner has great resolution. Too bad you can't use it - the software's file size limit means you can't scan an 8x10 picture at full resolution. Duh! Why didn't somebody in Quality Control notice this?
If you want to use OCR (scanning to a text file) it's a sorry experience. You launch the bundled OCR app and it forces you to get the scan through the Epson software instead of interfacing with the scanner itself. The app for Mac OS X is a poor reworking of a Mac OS 9 app which is a poor reworking of a pre-XP Windows app. I would guess that they haven't tweaked the core source code for at least six years.
Come on, Epson. With such great hardware, why can't you find some better software to go with it?
41 of 42 people found the following review helpful.
Amazing piece of hardware/software
By S. R. Thrapp
Like many boomers, we've been wanting to digitize our 35mm slides, as well as a few B&W and color negatives. I'd been researching film scanners for several months and had decided against the $500 Nikon, which apparently has problems with Kodachrome slides, and was considering Epson's $450 V700 when I chanced on the announcements for this little beauty. SO GLAD we waited!
We've scanned over 200 slides so far, and continue to be impressed, amazed, really at the quality. Great color, good shadow detail, sharpness - it really gives up precious little to units costing many times as much. We've also scanned some prints and negatives with similar results.
The included software is very intuitive - operates in three modes - Automatic, Home, or Professional; I'm finding the "Home" mode to be the best for most our purposes. Also included is ArcSoft's PhotoImpression 6, which after a brief learning curve has become my favorite editing software - even includes healing and cloning tools for fixing damaged photos. (The dust elimination feature in the scanning software seems to do an excellent job, too - Between that feature and the well-designed and marked slide and film carrier, we're whipping through our project much faster than anticipated. One note here - This unit is definitely designed for 35mm. It can't handle larger negatives at all, and cuts off part of our old Instamatic (square format) slides.
Scanning four slides at 400dpi takes about 7 minutes and results in an avg. file size of 2.8mb and a pixel size of 2400X1600 - about equivalent to a 7mp digital shot. The V200 is capable of scanning to 4800dpi, but such a scan would take over 15 minutes per slide and result in a file size of over 40mb - very cumbersome to work with, and for most home users there's simply no need. The scans we're getting at 400dpi look great full-screen on the monitor and make beautiful 8X10 prints.
My computer has a dual-core processor, and I've found I can edit photos while scanning with no loss of performance in either program. Nice!
In short, we continue to be impressed with the design and performance of the V200. It is heartily recommended to anyone wanting to convert film to digital.
36 of 43 people found the following review helpful.
OK Scanner--Software From Hell
By Peter in Tucson
Using a digital camera and a slide projector would be far easier and quicker for digitizing your old slides!!!
Those of us of a certain age would like to digitize our 35mm slides from the "good old days". After reading many reviews citing difficulties with virtually every available slide-capable scanner, I chose the Epson V200 based on 2 out of 3 Amazon reviews being very favorable--especially regarding ease of use. As it turned out, there was nothing easy about it.
There is not even a selection for "35mm Slides"--you have to figure out that "positive film" is probably the place to start although there different procedures for dealing with actual positive film. I found very little that was "intuitive" or easily recognizable. For example, Epson calls the adjustable selection area "marquee"--not in any English dictionary I've ever seen. Search for "Slides" or "35mm" in "Help" and there is nothing to be found!
You cannot start the software unless you first manually turn on the scanner. My ancient HP scanner comes on automatically when its software is started.
Every aspect of the Epson V200 software from installation to operation is unbelievably clunky by 2007 standards. I agree with the reviewer who suspects this is antiquated software poorly rewritten for current operating systems. Too bad, as the hardware seems to have very good potential--you'll just grow old and frustrated trying to utilize it!
After several aggravating hours of the Epson software fighting me every step of the way, I had maybe 3 usable 35mm slide scans. I doubt I will live long enough to scan the few hundred slides in my collection and certainly would not want to suffer the prolonged Epson agony that would be required.
The many ways Epson's software conspires to defeat your diligent efforts are truly astounding. Almost every setting or selection unexpectedly affects something else. And there seems to be a great tendency for settings and selections to revert to default after your painstaking efforts. Who wants a slide scan to be original size?
I have worked with computers and software for decades--including 5 years as a webmaster for a government agency--and this has to be the most USER-UNFRIENDLY software I've ever seen.
BUYER BEWARE !!!
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