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Summary: Best scanner period!
Review: Great quality positive and negative scans. Very speedy. Very well built. Only draw back is you have to exchange the top everytime you want to scan slides.
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Summary: Very fast, excellent image quality, easy to use
Review: After dorking around with ...flatbed scanners, I decided to fork out for the Epson 1240U Photo scanner. For a few bucks more, I got a LOT more scanner. This machine is remarkably fast. It needs only a few seconds to warm up prior to the first scan. After that, it zips right through every image the instant it's asked. The image sharpness and color quality is usually top notch as scanned. Little adjustment is necessary and if so, one or two buttons can be clicked to perform instant outstanding corrections. What's cool is that, if desired, there are many customizable settings to play with if the defaults aren't to your liking. Or you can go the one-touch route which offers clickable choices for what you want to do. I've had zero problems with it. The setup was quick and easy. I wouldn't bother with any other scanner. Bottom line, I get top-quality images in seconds. No more plodding through minutes of repeated warmups, scans and manual image adjusting.
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Summary: Great Scanner Great Price
Review: I have a HP 4C on my desktop and wanted a small scanner, primarily for photo scanning for my laptop. I wanted small,quality and inexpensive in one scanner. I read everyones reviews and the 1240 seemed the hands down winner. A week and a couple hundred photo scans later, I would agree. I was very impressed that I could put 4 4x6 photos on the glass and the software would scan them individually....My 4c won't do that. All of this for a $X. Everything I read suggested the newer 1250 is a step down so I'm glad I bought a 1240 when they were still available.
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Summary: Excellent Scanner!
Review: This scanner is very affordable yethas outstanding preformance.
The TWAIN Drivers ... automaticallt decting settings, but you can aslo switch to pro mode, allowing you full controll of the scanners features.
The image quality is superb.
The Photo editing software that come bundeled is of course not really that usefull, but you can't expect to get Photoshop included at that price. Photoshop and this scanner make an excellent combination
The Epson 1240U is well worth your moneyPieter Kapsenberg
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Summary: Good Scanner
Review: The only drawback that I've found so far in my one week of use is that you cannot position whatever you are copying all the way to the upper right corner. You have to position whatever you are copying about 1/4 inch away from the right edge or that edge will be cropped off. However, the included owner's manual does state that so there were no surprises but it is annoying.
Four 4x6 photos do fit will on the scanner.
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Summary: NEED AN EPSON PRINTER WITH THIS SCANNER!
Review: After seeing all the rave reviews of this product, and ensuring that it was compatible with my existing computer system, I ordered this product....and lo and behold, it would not scan to my Hewlett Packard printer!! I tried and tried. I then consulted with Epson, who advised me that this scanner is only made to copy to an EPSON PRINTER!! Imagine my amazement, as there is nothing indicated within the technical specifications to indicate this! In summary, I'm a disappointed buyer and have already returned the product for a refund.
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Summary: Great scanner at great price
Review: Easily installed and works great. Moreover, I got at a very good price from Amazon. Whatever time I have gotten to work on it, it has performed very good. Very clear scans and software that came with it is also very good for editing.
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Summary: Excellent Film Scanning
Review: I needed a replacement for my 4 year old Mustek 600. A local retailer had an excellent price on a 1200x2400 dpi Microtek 4700. I tried it out and although it's scanning quality was quite good for photos, it was marginal for transparent materials. Since I need to do some film scanning, I returned the Microtek and got the Epson 1240U Photo (at a much higher price). Scanning of photos is very quick and yields excellent results. When I tried it with 35mm film, I was surprised at the quality. I had some B&W astro photos that I had previously scanned on a $4,000 Minolta film scanner. I scanned them on the Epson and was astonished that the quality was actually better than the film scanner. The Epson results were sharper and had bettery gray scale rendition. I also scanned some color slides and even 16mm film strips and got acceptable results, although for those, I suspect a dedicated film scanner would have done better. The TWAIN driver uses an unsharp mask filter by default, making scanned images appear very sharp at the expense of a little pebbling in some smooth areas. That's probably why lots of people have reported this scanner as producing sharper images than others. Although to be fair, when I tried some sharpening filters, including unsharp masking, on the Microtek, I was able to get the image as sharp as on the Epson, but the pebbling was worse than what the Epson produced. It appears that Epson's filtering algorithm is quite good. With the unsharp mask on the Epson driver turned off, the focus is a little softer, more similar to many other scanners. For most pictures, I leave the unsharp mask turned on because the overall results are better. I use an Alps MD-1300 Dye Sublimation printer. Scanned photos printed on the MD-1300 are almost indistinguishable from the originals. Driver installation is not completely automatic, so read the manual and follow the instructions. It didn't work when I tried it on my own before reading the manual because the procedure is a little different from the usual Win98 driver installation. The only problem I found with the software is that the TWAIN interface didn't work with a very old version of WinFax Pro 4.0. It works fine with WinFax Pro 10.0, iPhoto Plus 4, and MGI Photo Suite. I didn't install Adobe Photo Deluxe because I had tried it previously and didn't like the user interface and slow speed. Overall, this is an excellent scanner and I would highly recommend it.
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Summary: Does Exactly As Advertised
Review: This scanner has not failed, had no software problems or "surprises" in over 1600 35mm slide scans in the first month I owned it. I also have found the scanner to work very well when scanning objects, such as coins, other type collectables for recording inventory. I rate this scanner A+. This is my second Epson product that has quality and produces for the buyer a quality product.
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Summary: poor color quality - poor customer service
Review: Color quality is poor. My greens are nothing like the original. All the adjusting in the world does not help me get good quality. Their service is nonexistent as far as I can tell. They promise a reply within two days but they must be measuring in dog years.
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