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Epson Perfection V200/en Colour Scanner 4800x9600dpi Usb2.0 Built In Film Adapter
- £50.23ex vat
- £59.03inc vat
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- manufacturer #: B11B188032
- quickfind code: 130242
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Superb
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Windows XPPurchased largely because of the positive reviews of Epsons V100 and V350 scanners. Was not disappointed. Scans have good contrast. Colours are very accurate. Resolution is excellent (although anyone actually expecting a true 4800dpi optically on a cheap scanner is kidding themselves.) Reflective scans are true to the original. Scans of 35mm slides have been most satisfactory (previously used Ohnar slide copy adapter with my digital camera).
With exception of the driver and User Manual, did not install any of the packaged software. The driver (Epson Scan) includes integrated software which does a very good job of restoring colours to faded photos, and also removing dust and other imperfections. (RePrint Photos looks useful; pity it cannot be installed without the so-called Epson Smart Panel!)
Speed is not high but more than acceptable. Only minor criticism so far is the rather fiddly slide adapter.
In short, for 60 quid, the V200 is a superb buy.
Really good
os:
Windows XPI wrote a review above but gave 4 stars.
Having used the scanner for a while it is well worth 5 stars as the interface is so straight forward. The document scanning is a breeze with options being clear and easy. I had said that there was little documentation but little is needed.
The photo scanning is so much higher quality than my screen can show.
This works well with very little fuss. Which is what all equipment should aspire to.
Good value for the money.
os:
Max OSXI bought this a few months ago to replace an ageing Bearpaw 1200CS which didn't work with my iMac.
I simply plugged it into the Mac running Leopard, switched it on and after loading the supplied drivers off the cd, Image Capture knew what it was and worked.
I've scanned loads of photographs and the colours are good, I've also scanned quite a few books and it does a reasonable job of getting to the edges of the pages, especially those awkward ones in the middle!
I've also done a few 35mm transparencies and while they are a little fiddly to load into the supplied template, with a little care and patience this scanner works well.
Well worth the money.
Very Capable
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Windows XP
Not being the most familiar with scanners and needing to got some of my film collection on computer I was not sure of what to get.
This is so new there are few reviews about but this was easy to use. The main problem was making files that were huge from a single slide. My photo programs could not handle them so I used 2400 dpi and the quality is fine. 9600 dpi would allow me to cover the side of a small house.
The document scanning offers to open up in Word from the scan which is very helpful.
The software seems easy enough with most of the adjustments within one window although I have no experience of other photo scanners.
A little fiddly with the slide / film holder but nothing serious. Anyway for the money this is a capable machine.
Four stars as documentation is scant and you do need some help with any new hardware to begin with.
disastrous
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Windows XPall the opinions on colour reproduction are true - epson has always been great.
Now, straight to the ugly:
- scanner glass is so thin that when you apply some pressue (say you put a heavier book on it) - it bends, and stops the scanner head moving (to the whining noise).
In other words - COMPLETELY useless for scanning books.
- scanner lid... whoever designed this, should be impaled, boiled and quartered alive. The scanning direction is such that You have to place a book upside down, in the top right corner. Oh, you certainly can put in bottom left, but hey, this coicides with the lid being on the way.
- Epson support. It's a joke. They use bots with bot answers to reply to your queries, which would be hilarious if not for the fact that you need answers, not irrelevant bot answers based on words randomly picked from your inquiry.
