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Epson - Perfection V600 Photo Scanner - Black
Average Customer Rating:
4.3
Rating breakdown 1,452 reviews
5 Stars
901
4 Stars
307
3 Stars
91
2 Stars
48
1 Star
105
89%of customers recommend this product.
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1,206 out of
1,361)
Customer Reviews for Epson - Perfection V600 Photo Scanner - Black
Customer Rating
3
Photographer
on August 18, 2014
Posted by: Jake
from Missouri
Nice but slow when using ICE. Had hoped that it would be faster. Slides do not get color adjusted like I thought they would. Overall good scanner but needs some work on software.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting epson.com
Customer Rating
5
Love our Epson Perfection V600 Scanner!!!
on May 5, 2015
Posted by: gullahgeechee
from Charleston, SC
We just received this scanner today and it was an easy setup to connect to our laptop and the software installed with no problems and is user friendly. It is lightweight and does not take up a lot of space. We followed the quick easy instructions to test all of the functions, such as scanning images, negative slides and film, enlargements, etc. and are very pleased with the results.
We have a 40 plus year collection of negative slides and film, which we will be scanning and will use it for large format scanning, desktop publishing, etc.
The v600 scanner provides the technology for us to use in our home and is an upgrade for us, so that we don't always have to pay for a professional to do the job. We are absolutely pleased with our purchase and highly recommend this product. We give a 5 plus star rating!!!
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting epson.com
Customer Rating
3
Color "okay", capture entire original, not OK
on October 15, 2012
Posted by: Nelly W
from USA
When I put any photo up against the inner plastic frame and scan as suggested, as others have said it definitely does cut off a few pixels lengthwise on those two sides. Might not matter so much for someone who doesn't have 100+ y/o photos. Someone (somewhere) suggested using thick painter's tape to keep the photos from butting up too closely to the edges. Tedious, however it's handled.
Color repro (with no retouching) is "okay", but not 100% accurate.
Also, better software should include the option how to name/rename the file before/during scanning; and due to the numerous "wrong" scannings (and other issues) would be very helpful to know how the last file was named, also.
Color repro (with no retouching) is "okay", but not 100% accurate.
Also, better software should include the option how to name/rename the file before/during scanning; and due to the numerous "wrong" scannings (and other issues) would be very helpful to know how the last file was named, also.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Written by a customer while visiting epson.com
Customer Rating
1
Dust under scanner glass in 3 V600 scanners
on January 9, 2015
Posted by: nomorepson
from Albuquerque, NM, USA
ordered V600 in late December. original scanner had dust under the scanner glass. replaced with new scanner. it had dust under glass. replaced with new scanner. it had dust under scanner glass. requested refund of purchase price. in process of returning third scanner. will see if credit card charge is refunded. original review refused. will see if this is accepted since it simply states facts.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Written by a customer while visiting epson.com
Customer Rating
3
Be Aware This Scanner Will Not Scan Contact Sheets
on February 16, 2015
Posted by: Anonymous
from Los Angeles, CA, USA
Does an excellent job scanning transparencies and negatives but transparency light in lid is only 2.9'' X 9.5". You can not scan full 8" X 10" contact sheets with this scanner, you must upgrade to the V700 to be able to do that. I didn't catch this in the specifications before i bought it and ended up giving it away and buying the V700. Disappointing... my old Epson Perfection 4990 Photo scanned 8" X 10" transparencies and negatives before its belt mechanism broke.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting epson.com
Customer Rating
1
V600 and Macs
on December 15, 2013
Posted by: stan
from Pa
Won't work with the new Maverick OS on my Mac ..very disappointed with Epson. I f they don't come up with drivers that work i will not buy another Epson product.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Written by a customer while visiting epson.com
Customer Rating
1
Software does not work
on April 9, 2016
Posted by: Astro
from Cypress, TX
The only way I can get a scan is by going to Settings / Printers & Scanners in OS X, clicking on Open Scanner, and using the built in scan utility. None of the Epson provided software can communicate either to scan or to test the scanner. I might be sending this back if I can't get it resolved.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Written by a customer while visiting epson.com
Customer Rating
3
Good scanner but quite poor software
on September 8, 2012
Posted by: paolo
from Switzerland
I bought this scanner to digitize a set of b/w glass negatives of the beginning of the XXc. The scanner itself seems quite fine--I have no real reference, but any pixel peeping I have done did not find anything wrong in the results. Scan time is rather on the long side, but bearable (a couple of minutes for half a 9cm x 12cm glass negative at 1200dpi--I need to do it in two rounds and use Photoshop to stick them together, as the whole negative exceeds the backlit size, but this goes perfectly fine). What I found pretty disappointing is the software. Notice that I am using the EPSON Scan application to produce 16-bit TIFFs and do all processing manually in Photoshop (that is, I do not use any of the fancy options to "improve" the image). Here are a few annoying things: (1) I scan repeatedly in the same area (backlit, cannot use the provided placement guides due to the size of the originals) and EVERY TIME I do a preview (more later on why I need a preview every time) I need in fact to do two, one of the complete backlit area and one of the (unchanged) zoom. Why it does not honour my preselected area from one preview to the next one is obscure to me. (2) The preview does not indicate burned or black areas, as any decent software does (CameraRAW is perfect for that). (3) The levels/histogram control has the usual little triangles to control... one would guess the white and the black points. In fact, no, they control light and shadows, with one extremely annoying consequence: you cannot just place them at the edge of the histogram and therefore hope to capture the whole range used by the photo; you have to place them "somewhere" and judge visually if you are clipping either edge of the spectrum (see point 2). Just to give the reader an idea of the weirdness of this, the default/reset position of the cursors is not 0 and 100%/255 but something like 50 and 225 (I cannot remember the exact numbers now as the scanner is not connected, but you see the point) and this is probably supposed to be the setting which gives a linear (?) rendering of the whole scanner range (they call it "reset"...). (4) The automatic exposure is just plain bad: probably to please the crowds it has high contrast (nothing too wrong here) and clips white and blacks badly. Not even close to be usable--hence I need to do two previews (see point 1) and judge visually the best placement of the edges of the levels (and it is tough, see points 2 and 3). In summary, I am happy of my purchase because I manage to do what I bought it for and with the quality I desire. Yet, achieving what I want is rather painful and certainly takes much more time and effort than it should if the user interface had been slightly more competently written.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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