Rating: 
Summary: Great except...
Review:
This is a perfect scanner for the home user. The software is simple
to use, you have a choice between automatic scanning and manually
scanning. However, I was disappointed with the descreen feature (which
doesn't seem to work) and Epson seems to have forgotten the
option to scan from newspaper or magazine -> and yes, this
does make a difference :) if you're specifically looking
for these options. But if you're looking for a fast, quality scan from photo
quality or original prints, whether you're output is a laser
printer, inkjet or a website, this is a great machine.
Rating: 
Summary: Great scanner for its money
Review: After reading the reviews on this site, I reluctantly purchased the scanner and was shocked at the ease of installation and scanning. I have windows 98 (I hate to give up things I like)and an epson C80 printer, so I'm not sure if either helped to facilitate the installation, but it is a great little scanner. I gave it a rough trial as soon as it arrived by scanning a few dark pictures of poor quality. The scanned pictures turned out far superior to the original (without touchup) and I'm still trying to figure that one out. Good luck and many hours of enjoyment if you purchase this little gem.
Rating:
Summary: Worth every penny
Review: Awesome! Running XP, a true plug and play unit. From box to scan in 10 minutes including all sw setup, connecting and first scan. Compared to an older unit i had prior, the scan quality is superior, easy of operation all around terrific. No need of manuals, process is easy step by step. No glitches, a winner.
Rating:
Summary: Great Scanner!
Review: Bought this scanner last week, and installed it on a Compaq laptop with Windows XP Professional. Downloaded the TWAIN driver for XP and the Scan to email patch for XP from Epson's website before it arrived. When it got here, the installation was a snap (with one minor glitch), and everything worked from minute one. The minor glitch with the installation happened when I first inserted the CD. The installation screen came up that allows you to select what applications to install. The first product installed fine, but the 2nd one cause the machine to lock up while displaying a "installation in progress... please wait" message for about 15 minutes. Finally had to reboot. When the machine came back, I inserted the CD again, then hit exit. I just went to each application's directory on the CD and double-clicked on the setup files. Worked fine from then on. Maybe Epson needs a little work on their installation processes... As far as the scanner itself, I'm very impressed with its quality. A little noisy during a scan, but so what? It's not like you're going to be scanning 24 hours a day!!! Anyway, it works well, and does great scans for the money. What more could you want?
Rating:
Summary: Images are as crisp as the original
Review: Despite the slightly negative reviews I saw here, I purchased this product any way. I am so pleased! You can scan almost anything. I even scanned a stuffed cow to put on a website. The images are as good as your original copy. My son scans magazine photos for book reports. Support for Windows XP is easily downloaded from the Epson website. A great buy!
Rating:
Summary: Buy this scanner!
Review: For the money this item is outstanding! I am able to scan photos, negatives and slides to create huge files for longterm storage. And for general publishing I can resize the item and create a wonderful 8 x 10 print from my HP printer. Having a CD burner is extemely important when you are making good use of a scanner like this so you have somewhere to put the images so you don't choke your hard drive. I have no dust under the glass issues. No reliability or software problems either. I did realize that I needed to purchase a better photo manipulation software package and an upgrade in RAM in order to efficiently do the job with my current PC.
Rating:
Summary: An Excellent Scanner
Review: From the time I received my shipment from Amazon to the time I was printing my first scanned photo was 13 minutes. That alone is enough to recommend this scanner. After using it for a few days I found it to be an amazing device, delivering high quality scans with a minimum of fuss. The resolution is excellent and the color reproduction is very, very good. You will notice that it can scan a touch little lighter than the original. If that happens to be a problem it is easily corrected, either at scan time or by using a photo editting package. The only limitation I see in this machine is the speed. I have a 1.2Ghz PC with 1GB of RAM. Total scan time for an 8x10 photo is about 25 seconds. If you are a professional scanning lots of images each day you should spend some more money. But if you scan only a few pictures a day then the speed is not an issue.
Rating:
Summary: Great tech service. Does descreening scans.
Review: I had great difficulty installing the software for the Epson 1650 and once I called Epson's tech service it was because I hadn't uninstalled my old UMAX scanner stuff. Once that was done I had no problem installing Epson's software, but needed their tech help to do it. When first using I didn't like the 'automatic' scans at all, and called Epson tech people again because I couldn't find how to descreen an image from a magazine. Espson Service took the time, almost an hour, to lead me through each step of setting up the "Manual" scanning part of the system and it's wonderful. I was impressed by the tech help and the guy even called me back the next day to see if I needed any more help. That's a first. Contrary to other reviews here, the Epson DOES descreen scans very easily and accurately, and does it through the Manual screen, not the automatic scan page. It doesn't help that the online manual doesn't produce anything when you search for 'descreen'. A great scanner, fast, big preview window. Does film transparencies too...a great asset that used to cost a bundle before. I'm very pleased I purchased this scanner.
Rating: 
Summary: Returned it.
Review: I had read the various reviews and went ahead and bought the scanner anyway. Others had complained about the scans being very dusty, crooked, etc. I had the same problems, the scans were consistently dusty and very distorted at the edges of the glass. Even on a black image, the scan was full of white specks. Completely unacceptable. I returned the scanner. Maybe there was just a bad batch of this model based on the number of bad reports here. Cannot recommend :(
Rating: 
Summary: Very disappointed
Review: I may have just had a fluke bad scanner, but I returned this scanner two days after I purchased. Compared to the much cheaper Visioneer, the software was a pain to use, almost too automated. You can override to manual but I wasn't impressed with that option either. The most disappointing was the scanned image, looked like something I copied instead of scanned.
Be careful when you uninstall this software, my PC hasn't been the same since.
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