Epson Perfection 2480 Photo Flatbed Scanner

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Summary: Excellent consumer-grade scanner
Review: I bought this scanner to scan and organize all of my paper photos. I'm very impressed with the quality of the scans, the colors are acurate and the detail is excellent as well. I also tried the negative adapter and it worked great.

The software that comes with the scanner is the best part. You can put a photo in the middle of the scanner, press the scan button on the scanner and it determines the orientation correctly (even if the photo is not perfectly straight). It's as close to "unattended" as you can get; you just have to swap the photos. I use it in combination with Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 and use the "batch processing" feature to name and save all the scanned photos at once.

This job would be unmanageble on my old scanner, a CanoScan 620U.

I did have a problem with the first unit I bought being defective. I left it plugged in overnight and it was dead in the morning. I was happy enough with the results and low price to buy another one.

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Summary: HORRIBLE!! Horrible! horrible......
Review: It's been many years since I've worked with such an unreliable peice of hardware. Of the 10 times I've tried to use it, it has only functioned properly once. Changing cables, restarting scanner, restaring computer, re-installing software.... nothing. When you really need it to work and it consistently fails leaves you're left feeling very frustrated. Do yourself a favor and pay the extra money to get a scanner that will be reliable. This scanner isn't.

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Summary: Epson 2480 PHOTO
Review: The manufacturer claims this product will install on Windows 2000. Eventually it will, however the installation software fails
to notice that a file it attempts to copy to is in a 'Read only' state. This causes the setup process to fail with a nearly useless error message.
In addition, if you attempt to register the product online the response to the Internet dial up is: "you have reached a number which is disconnected or no longer in service".
One more thing, as you are told to "slide the transportation lock to the unlock position" you are warned "Don't turn the scanner over to access the lock or you may damage the scanner". After that when you attempt to register the product you discover the serial number, they request, is recorded on the bottom of the scanner.

George Ahearn
Los Gatos CA.

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Summary: Good scans but defective CCD
Review: The unit I received appeared to have a defective CCD imaging system. The scan quality was pretty good, but every scan had 2 vertical red lines that went from top to bottom. Couldn't get rid of it no matter what I tried. Unfortunately, have to return to Amazon. Will probably try a different Epson model scanner next time around.

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Summary: Good scanner, but not for film.
Review: This scanner was excellent for scanning pictures and images, but did poorly with 35mm negatives. The color was dull and had a brown tint to it. In comparison to the Canon Lide80, the film scan was terrible. This is a GREAT scanner if you do not wish to scan film.