Epson Perfection 1260 Photo Scanner | 
| Brand: Epson
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Rating:  25 reviews
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 9.4
Dimensions (in): 22.6 x 15.2 x 5
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: 1260
Model: 1260
UPC: 010343842946
EAN: 0010343842946
ASIN: B00006AMSD
Release Date: October 8, 2002
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| Features:
| • | 1,200 x 2,400 dpi optical resolution, 9,600 dpi enhanced | | • | True 48-bit color depth for rich scans | | • | 35mm adapter for slides and negatives | | • | Automated 4-button operation | | • | Convenient USB connectivity |
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Product Description
The combination of powerful features, ease-of-use, high quality and affordability with the Epson Perfection 1260 has taken home scanning to new levels. Technologies that are often found only in advanced scanners are standard in this new and incredibly versatile scanner. It is now a case of home scanning with a very real difference - the Epson difference.An optical carriage movement of 2400 dpi with Micro Step Drive, Dynamic Range Control and Simultaneous RGB scanning produces smooth, clear images with high color consistency and depth. With the optional Transparency Unit, scanning 35-mm film negatives and slides is an absolute breeze. With a total of 10 applets, the Epson Smart Panel makes it an absolute snap to make the perfect scan for photos, OCR, e-mail, Web and even Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). With direct scanning to P.I.M. (Print Image Matching) format, photograph scans feature colors more vivid than scans restricted to the traditional sRGB color space. With a single press of one of the scanner's four buttons, the scanner enters auto mode and delivers optimum scans, every time.The Perfection 1260 Photo model comes standard with a versatile 35-mm slide adapter unit for scanning negatives and slides.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 20 more reviews...
 Horrible slide scans February 16, 2003
36 out of 38 found this review helpful
Despite Epson's marketing of this scanner as being excellent for scanning slides, My experience has been the pits. When I tried to scan slides that have excellent detail, exposure, and clarity the scanned images are anything but. The shadow areas come out so dark that you can't make out any detail what so ever in the shadow areas. When you go to editing to try to correct this you loose alot, and I mean alot of detail in the highlight areas. When I try to scan slides that were taken at night, again despite excellent detail and exposure most of the time the scanner tells me the slide isn't there or it's improperly placed although it is there and properly placed. On the rare occasion when these slides do scan the color of the scanned slide is very wrong (ie: a waterfall that is light up against a night sky) in the slide the waterfall is a whitish yellow and you can clearly see the detail of some rocks that do not have water rolling over them. The same image scans with the waterfall being a red-orange and with the water that is at the bottom going into the river being a bright sunshine yellow, as well as no detail of the rocks that have no water rolling down them at all. If this is what Epson calls excellent, I would hate to see what they call bad. I have been on the phone with support from Epson and the people who have developed the software bundle that comes with the scanner, which by the way are all long distance calls. None of these company's have toll free numbers, which begins to add up very quickly. Not one of these company's had any answers for me, they just kept referring me back and forth between the software companies and Epson. I did this for two weeks in good faith trying to resolve these issues. I am now done with it, I have decided to return the scanner to the place of purchase for a full refund. PERIOD!
 Don't know why others are complaining December 31, 2002
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
I don't know why others are having problems. I bought this scanner for my father for christmas and it works great. He also has an HP printer and we have had no problems getting the scanner to copy directly to the printer.The text on the control panel is fine. I have never even looked at the manual. The only thing that doesn't work right is the scan to e-mail. The only e-mail program it will scan to is outlook express. My fathers computer has Netscape Mail and the full version of Outlook on it but these don't show up as options when scanning to e-mail. I love the fact that it finds the edges of the photo being scanned and only scans the appropriate area. There is no need to do any cropping with an editing program when the scan is done. I may have to buy one for myself.
 Not perfect, but pretty darn good June 15, 2003
bgaughr (Georgia United States)
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
I almost did not buy the 1260 Photo Scanner based upon a couple of other reviews. After using it for a few days, I sure am happy I did.
1. Since I run Windows XP with the Service Pack, I was very concerned after reading the problems a couple of other buyers experienced. I can now say this is not an issue with the Epson. When you open the box, there are instructions on how to download a 'patch' from Microsoft to ensure that the scanner runs perfectly. 2. I was also concerned with another reviewers comments about having to set up a 'phantom' printer. I use a HP Laserjet printer and I printed to that device without any problems. 3. Finally, one of the other concerns was 'ease of use.' Again, not a problem from my perspective. The scanner was set up and running perfectly within ten minutes (from box to perfect picture). The quality of the photos and documents is very good from my perspective. I tested the scanner using the printer, sending a picture to an email, saving a scanned picture to a file, and including a scanned picture in a Word document. All functions worked flawlessly. What more could I ask? Well, maybe one thing. The scanner could be a little faster. It is not actually slow - just not real fast. Conclusion: All things considered, I do not think you can go wrong with this scanner.
I took it back November 14, 2002
D. Harder (Topeka, KS USA)
17 out of 53 found this review helpful
One Saturday morning my old scanner bit the dust. I needed a scanner that weekend, so some research, store visits and reading were required. I finally narrowed my choice to this model and a Canon that didn't do photo negatives. The rebate on this model swayed me along with the capability (although will I use it?) of doing negatives. Well, let's sum it up by saying that after 10 frustrating days, I took it back and got the Canon. Functionally, the 1260 worked fine...quiet and quick. But the software was [horrible]. The Epson Control Panel had text that showed up in different fonts if it showed up at all (I had to constantly open the help file to see what a panel should look like and to figure out what the buttons and text boxes should say). Also, although some functions worked fine, I was unable to save a scanned file as a TIF or BMP and have it import with any quality into PageMaker. My old ...scanner did this just fine at 200 dpi for the size I needed. Anyway, I contacted the help sites for the scanner and a separate site for the software (even though it's got Canon's name all over it, they don't support it), and after 9 days had heard nothing from either of them. Think twice before you purchase this dog. In fact with that type of customer service, maybe Canon isn't a good choice at all.
Excellent Scanner! November 25, 2002
R. Gordon (Decatur, GA United States)
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
I do a lot of scanning for print & video professionally, and I bought this scanner over the weekend after my old scanner bit it.The coolest feature: When I placed several photos on the scanner, the scanner recognized the individual pictures and placed each scan in a separate file, each aligned perfectly. Drool-worthy feature. It works with Mac OS X Jaguar. Download the latest driver from Epson's website. It scans negatives and slides. Since I have tried this before with my digital camera, I really want to see this feature in action. I placed the slide in the holder, placed the backlight on top of it, and placed them on the flatbed (note: align the two arrows). It scanned the negative, inverted it, and placed the resulting image in Photoshop Elements. Cool. I highly recommend this scanner for consumer & moderate prosumer use.
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