| Epson Perfection V200 Color Scanner | 
| Brand: Epson
List Price: $99.99
Buy New: $82.05
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Rating:  28 reviews
Color: Silver
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 11
Dimensions (in): 20 x 16.1 x 5.6
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: Epson Perfection V200 Color Scanner
Model: Epson Perfection V200 Color Scanner
UPC: 010343862869
EAN: 0010343862869
ASIN: B000S5KF34
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 4800 DPI for exceptional clarity | | • | Quick copying of documents and photos for arhcving purposes | | • | Automatic Scanning - scan to e-mail, create PDF's and more. | | • | Convenient film scanning to create enlargements up to 14 x21 inches | | • | Built-in transparency unit for slides and negatives. |
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Product Description
Epson's Perfection V200 Photo scanner offers the perfect solution for those seeking to archive their photo collection into digital form. The 4800 dpi optical resolution provides remarkable clarity and detail, and automatic scanning allows you to easily share and archive documents and photos (scan to e-mail, copy, create PDFs) with one touch buttons. Precision film scanning allows you to create enlargements up to 14x21 inches. An innovative lid design lets you easily scan oversized items and 3D objects ? great for scrapbooking. The built-in Transparency Unit allows scanning of 35mm slides and negatives with ease. Other unique features include One-touch restoration of faded color photos, Advanced Digital Dust Correction to remove dust from photos and film, and Creativity software included so you can do more with your photos. Macintosh - PowerPC G3 400 MHz or Intel-based CPU, USB 1.1 ? Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later, Hi-Speed USB 2.0 ? Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later, 128MB RAM (256 MB recommended),735MB hard disk space minimum, CD-ROM drive (4x or faster),available USB connection Physical Dimensions (WxDxH) - 16.9 x 11 x 2.2 inches (430.1 x 280.3 x 56.6 mm) / Weight 5.7 lb (2.6 kg approximately) Epson One-year limited warranty in the U.S. and Canada
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| Customer Reviews: Read 23 more reviews...
 Good hardware, horrible (Mac) software September 8, 2007
D. Blackburn (Minneapolis, MN United States)
58 out of 61 found this review helpful
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?
 OK Scanner--Software From Hell September 24, 2007
Peter in Tucson (Arizona, USA)
34 out of 42 found this review helpful
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 !!!
 Amazing piece of hardware/software August 1, 2007
S. R. Thrapp
29 out of 30 found this review helpful
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.
Fine Photo Scanner August 17, 2007
David Pettit (MD)
19 out of 20 found this review helpful
I am also very pleased with this scanner.I have scanned about a 100 slides, and I'm still experimenting with its features. I found the Epson Scan software very logical and easy to use. It has a basic starter mode, and a profesional mode. I use it at home and found the Profesional mode meets my needs. I have some previous experience with another scanner, but I found the Epson software much easier to use. It does little convenient things, for example, the preview mode does a quick scan, and then lets you orient the picture. Then when you do the actual scan, it is filed with the correct orientation, so you don't have to rotate the images. I didn't install the Arcsoft, because I use a version of Photoshop Elements and my camera software. You can import into Photoshop. Also noteworthy is the ABBYY software that has word recognition. I haven't used this feature yet, so I can't comment on it.
Bottom line, I'm getting great scanned slides ( and I'm picky) and a fun easy to use software. At 3600 dpi, the average file size is 1meg, equivilent to a 7 megapixel camera, using Photoshop baseline filing. At 4800, I'm getting around 3 meg files. Optimized Photoshop files are much larger. It will go up to 9600 optical in Pro mode. And then even higher interpolated. In the 9600+ modes it is slow. But it can be worth the wait for your best pictures if your going to supersize them.
Inexpensive With Great Quality & Features January 21, 2008
Martin A Hogan (San Francisco, CA.)
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
I don't scan a ton of material, but I do it enough that I wanted an inexpensive, but quality scanner. You can get up to 4800 dpi (dots per inch) resolution which is greater than most photography shops use (Walgreens, etc.) However, you must have a quality printer and photo paper to see the results. This has all the basics, like scanning directly to Email and creating PDF's. The lid lifts up one inch and beds back over for objects that are bulky (this is a big deal when scanning from thick books). I don't scan slides, but I understand this has a neat feature that makes it easier. There is also a very cool feature where you can restore faded color photos - it's a real trip. There is other software that I don't even use that most people would benefit from (like the Dust Correction and other software that is way over my head). It's light and can fit almost anywhere without plugs and wires getting in the way. I use mine with a PC (it is MAC compatible) and have had no problems. It's really just great for one-button scanning. Fast too. I bought mine at a local chain electronics store, but the price here is very competitive.
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