Great for scanning old pictures

I went looking for a service to scan old photos into jpegs and found out that my 2k+ pictures were going to cost me an arm and a leg to scan into DVD(s), so I went out to look for an alternative. Did quite a bit of research and came across this printer. However, I did not see anybody that was using it for that purpose. I went ahead and got one just to try it out. At $400+ it was pricey, but a whole lot cheaper than sending my pictures out to a service plus I have the flexibility to scan in any order I wanted and do it batches at a time. A service would also only do 300dpi and I had to pay extra for things like chronological scanning. However, I was afraid that since this scanner is really intended for documents, it would not offer enough quality for pictures.

After scanning hundreds of pictures, I could not be happier with my purchase. This scanner is amazingly fast even at 600dpi. It can handle any size picture I have thrown at it(I have used several sizes from 2"x2" to 5"x7" with the vast majority being 4"x6"), and the quality of the pictures is amazing. Since the path the scanner takes the picture through is pretty much straight, it does not create any distortion and the wear it puts on the picture is minimal.

So a very fast scanner, with awesome picture quality, and no jams, what is there not to like? Well, on the negative side, it took me about 3 hours to tweak all the settings to where I could figure out what the right settings were for picture scanning. You have to go to the event manager to set most options, but you have a different place to setup other options. Also, I have to feed all the pictures in portrait (short side in) which is kind of weird. So figuring out the software was not trivial, but all in all after everything was setup, it has worked great. In the end, I use Photoshop elements to get the pictures through the scanner using the Epson drivers. Tag and date the pictures and get them into my catalog. That has worked pretty well for me. Glad I bought it and I will feel better when all these pictures are digitized for safe keeping! I rate the scanner 5 stars for superb performance. For ease of use I rate 3 stars because it was a bit harder to setup and use for pictures than I thought it should be.

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