Epson Perfection V600 Color Photo, Image, Film, Negative & Document Scanner

I purchased this scanner primarily for its film and slide capabilities, and it has exceeded my expectations. Starting at the beginning. . .setup was effortless. I installed it on a name brand PC with a Pentium 4 processor, 1 gig of ram, running Windows XP with Service Pack 3. Installation and operation have been flawless with this OS and hardware configuration. Next point . . . speed. I have never been able to do high resolution scans at this speed; this machine is fast. I have another scanner (different brand)that is nearly brand new, but drastically slower than this little Epson. The V600 Perfection can do high dpi scans in a fraction of the time compared to my other scanner. With my processor and memory configuration the V600 has been able to do 4 instamatic slides at 6400 DPI in about 10-12 minutes. And there is definitely an improvement in output with 6400 as opposed to 3200 resolution. But . . .resolution alone does not tell the whole story either. The output from this scanner has a visual "presence" that must be seen to be fully appreciated. I have also scanned a lot of really old 120 (620) negatives (some in excess of 90 years old). The results have been nothing short of stunning. So much for the hardware. Now to the software . . .I have primarily used the Epson scanner software without doing any "enhancement" commands. On a few occasions I have done "color correction." "Unsharp mask" has been used once or twice and "backlight correction" has been used a time or two. When I have decided to do software correction the results have been good. The color correction command has been very accurate on 40 year old color slides. So much so, that I have not needed to do any other restoration. Finally, some folks have commented on Digital Ice. I have used it sparingly, mostly for creased and torn snapshots. In one particular case, a 70 year old snapshot was creased and torn---some might say "badly mangled." The ICE result was very good, though I decided to use Photoship to finish the restoration. However, the crease and tear correction done by ICE saved me a lot of time and effort in Photoshop Elements. Bottom line . . . I can't believe this scanner was so reasonably priced. Comparing output, software quality and ease of use, the Epson V600 is THE BEST scanner I have ever owned or used (and this is the 5th scanner I have owned over the years). The Epson V600 Perfection's ability to scan old negatives and slides is unbelievably good. The learning curve was relatively rapid---though it takes a few days and some practice scans to fully learn the capabilities of this fantastic machine and software. August 31, 2011: The Epson Perfection 600 works superbly with an i7 processor in the Windows 7 64 bit environment. Huge (high pixel) scans take very little time, and continue to be beautiful, both in color and black and white. After four months and several hundred negative and slide scans, I remain totally impressed with the quality of this machine.

Perfection... That is the quality of images I'm getting! The resolution is unbelievable. "Create extraordinary enlargements from film - 6400 x 9600 dpi for enlargements up to 17" x 22". I love it! I import everything I scan into Photoshop CC 2014, and it works seamlessly. And, mentioning Photoshop - a big plus for those that would use more advanced software than the other bundled apps... Adobe Photoshop Elements is included in the price - free, which I have used and it is a great imaging program. I can't say anything as far as DIGITAL ICE, and the EPSON photo fix, but judging from earlier versions of the same software, I can only imagine how good they are now. I see them as being perfect for those that just want user friendly software for minor but unwanted corrections on film and prints. The scanner is incredibly fast and very quiet compared to those I've had in the past, and the scans are perfect. Bottom line... If you're looking for a great scanner producing unbelievable resolution and clarity at a great price, you can't go wrong with the Epson Perfection V600. And now something completely different... more than a few words of praise for Amazon. I haven't seen a user review page for the company itself, so please pardon me if there is one, and I will be happy to move my Amazon.com review to the appropriate place. I bought this scanner from Amazon (obviously), which is where I buy ALL of my purchases. I do that for many reasons, chief among them is that I trust Amazon completely. I know that if there is ever a problem, their great support team will do their best to make it right. They have exceeded all of my expectations in solving the problems I have had in the past. They are truly the best in customer care in every sense of the word! I have been a Prime member since day one, and just the 2nd day delivery is well worth the price. But when you throw in the millions of songs they have to listen to for FREE in their online streaming library and the amount of video - FREE as well... it's amazing! One of Amazon's biggest and best features is AMAZON SMILE. Any company that has made part of their profits available to whatever cause or charity you choose is... simply amazing. I don't know of any other company that does all of these things for it's customers and for the world's most needy charities. Nobody forced them to institute Amazon Smile... they do it because they truly put their money where their mouth is - Amazon really helps people - and every time you buy something through Amazon Smile - YOU are helping people as well... which blows my mind. And that goes hand in hand with their company mission statement which leads off by saying something like (and I'm paraphrasing here) - their main purpose is to be the most customer centric store on earth. And they have proven that to me. Many times over.

Purpose: I bought this scanner to digitise 1000s of 1970s, 80s pictures of our family. Most of the photos were already faded and lost colour. Progress: I have already completed scanning 2000+ photos and works like charm. Exactly what I expected. Feedback: 1. Works perfectly on my Mac (despite some reviews say it doesn't). I am using latests Mac OS version on MacBook Pro. Was not hard setting it up on my Mac. Just downloaded the latest version software "Epson Scan 2" from the website and it worked. 2. Picture Quality is much better than any other scanners I tried (& bought) before trying this one. Quality is close to what you can see in the picture, is what you will get it on your file. Other scanners, though they claim 48 bit colour, they gave colour banding issues. 3. Faded colours are auto corrected if the feature is enabled during scan. (I still had to do some on Photoshop) 4. Both Colour and Grayscale pictures worked perfect. 5. Best part is, when you scan multiple photos, the photos are cropped into separate files and colour restoration works for each photo separately. Overall: No complaints so far. Bit expensive though.

Tengo un monto de negativos de 35mm y 120mm que necesitaba digitalizar. Estuve buscando varios escaners y este me parecio bueno para el precio pero tenia mis dudas. La verdad es que no me ha decepcionado. La calidad de las imágenes es bastante buena con el software que viene por defecto. Me tomó varias pruebas para lograr los ajustes (en el software) necesarios para tener los mejores resultados pero ya se pagó solo.

Fantastic piece of kit. Simple to use and does a fantastic job

I was very unhappy with the scanning of my artworks, on which I put a lot of effort in terms of the detail, the technique and the colours, only to have my ordinary scanner-printer-copier downgrade them on all those things. So I investigated scanner for artworks and I came across this one. It definitely scans so much better than the 3-in-1 copier-scanners. In fact, the reproduction of detail is so good that now I have to be careful with little errors that did not appear on the previous scanner images! Besides, it has got several adjustments you can make on colour, definition, contrast and the like. This allows you to tweak the settings gradually until you get the ideal combination of them and then you save them for all subsequent scans. But....yes, only one disadvantage: The scanner is an old model and WiFi was not even available for it. So you have to connect it with the old USB cable and the computer often struggles to make the connection with the scanner, even with the cable. Sometimes I even have to restart the computer and the scanner in the hope that they will see each other. As the quality of scanning is more important than the convenience of wireless communications, for me, I am prepared to live with this small inconveniences.

Had to buy an adapter to make it work. This was not mentioned on the Amazon.com.au advert.