Epson FastFoto FF-680W - Document Scanner
Fast and efficient Digitising your collection of printed photos doesn't have to be difficult or time consuming - this auto feeder can scan up to 30 photos in 30 seconds. Scan standard, square, panoramic and instant photos, from 9x13cm up to 21x91cm (panoramic). Plus its intelligent knowing when to scan the back of a photo - helping capture special handwritten notes. Processing thousands of photos is quick and easy While you can opt to manually edit the photos, theres a suite of impressive automatic features that you can select to ensure photos are ready to share. This includes cropping, rotating, restoring colours in faded photos and enhancing brightness, contrast and colour. Theres also the option to automatically save both an enhanced and original version of the scan great if you want an untouched backup. Sharing and storing files is easy Choose a file type that's right for your needs: small and easy to share JPEGs or large TIFFs for maximum image quality. FastFoto software lets you share images via email and automatically upload images to cloud services such as Dropbox and Google Drive. Versatile It can archive a range of single or double-sided documents at 45ppm3, vertically up to A4, including panoramic images. And thanks to the OCR software, scanned documents are editable in Word or Excel and PDFs are searchable.
Fast and efficient Digitising your collection of printed photos doesn't have to be difficult or time consuming - this auto feeder can scan up to 30 photos in 30 seconds. Scan standard, square, panoramic and instant photos, from 9x13cm up to 21x91cm (panoramic). Plus its intelligent knowing when to scan the back of a photo - helping capture special handwritten notes. Processing thousands of photos is quick and easy While you can opt to manually edit the photos, theres a suite of impressive automatic features that you can select to ensure photos are ready to share. This includes cropping, rotating, restoring colours in faded photos and enhancing brightness, contrast and colour. Theres also the option to automatically save both an enhanced and original version of the scan great if you want an untouched backup. Sharing and storing files is easy Choose a file type that's right for your needs: small and easy to share JPEGs or large TIFFs for maximum image quality. FastFoto software lets you share images via email and automatically upload images to cloud services such as Dropbox and Google Drive. Versatile It can archive a range of single or double-sided documents at 45ppm3, vertically up to A4, including panoramic images. And thanks to the OCR software, scanned documents are editable in Word or Excel and PDFs are searchable.
Fast and efficient Digitising your collection of printed photos doesn't have to be difficult or time consuming - this auto feeder can scan up to 30 photos in 30 seconds. Scan standard, square, panoramic and instant photos, from 9x13cm up to 21x91cm (panoramic). Plus its intelligent knowing when to scan the back of a photo - helping capture special handwritten notes. Processing thousands of photos is quick and easy While you can opt to manually edit the photos, theres a suite of impressive automatic features that you can select to ensure photos are ready to share. This includes cropping, rotating, restoring colours in faded photos and enhancing brightness, contrast and colour. Theres also the option to automatically save both an enhanced and original version of the scan great if you want an untouched backup. Sharing and storing files is easy Choose a file type that's right for your needs: small and easy to share JPEGs or large TIFFs for maximum image quality. FastFoto software lets you share images via email and automatically upload images to cloud services such as Dropbox and Google Drive. Versatile It can archive a range of single or double-sided documents at 45ppm3, vertically up to A4, including panoramic images. And thanks to the OCR software, scanned documents are editable in Word or Excel and PDFs are searchable.
Fast and efficient Digitising your collection of printed photos doesn't have to be difficult or time consuming - this auto feeder can scan up to 30 photos in 30 seconds. Scan standard, square, panoramic and instant photos, from 9x13cm up to 21x91cm (panoramic). Plus its intelligent knowing when to scan the back of a photo - helping capture special handwritten notes. Processing thousands of photos is quick and easy While you can opt to manually edit the photos, theres a suite of impressive automatic features that you can select to ensure photos are ready to share. This includes cropping, rotating, restoring colours in faded photos and enhancing brightness, contrast and colour. Theres also the option to automatically save both an enhanced and original version of the scan great if you want an untouched backup. Sharing and storing files is easy Choose a file type that's right for your needs: small and easy to share JPEGs or large TIFFs for maximum image quality. FastFoto software lets you share images via email and automatically upload images to cloud services such as Dropbox and Google Drive. Versatile It can archive a range of single or double-sided documents at 45ppm3, vertically up to A4, including panoramic images. And thanks to the OCR software, scanned documents are editable in Word or Excel and PDFs are searchable.
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Epson FastFoto FF-680W Wireless High-Speed Photo and Document Scanning System Black
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Epson FastFoto FF-680W
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Epson Ff-680w Fastfoto Wireless Photo And Document Scanner ( B11b237501 )
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originally posted on bestbuy.com
Fairly decent speeds. (once you ignore the fairly ridiculous 300 dpi and the fake 1200 dpi... so the one remaining setting : 600) I'm rather a traditionalist so the goofy photo "enhancements" were quickly ignored. Ran though, I don't know, couple hundred small 3x5 prints. As they tended to fly all over the floor I set the output tray much smaller.Here is when things when awry. (sure a good chunk of user - well I won't call it error - happened)The international company known for printing advertises "sure, shove 36 pictures of any size in here and go for it! and for the privilege we charge you quite a few Benjamin but boy you're gonna be happy!"Put the last few 3x5s in there with a good chunk of 8x10s (which can only be scanned vertically btw) and proceeded on ... MoreFairly decent speeds. (once you ignore the fairly ridiculous 300 dpi and the fake 1200 dpi... so the one remaining setting : 600) I'm rather a traditionalist so the goofy photo "enhancements" were quickly ignored. Ran though, I don't know, couple hundred small 3x5 prints. As they tended to fly all over the floor I set the output tray much smaller.Here is when things when awry. (sure a good chunk of user - well I won't call it error - happened)The international company known for printing advertises "sure, shove 36 pictures of any size in here and go for it! and for the privilege we charge you quite a few Benjamin but boy you're gonna be happy!"Put the last few 3x5s in there with a good chunk of 8x10s (which can only be scanned vertically btw) and proceeded on my way. (PC and scanner are in different rooms.)Went to check after a few and a good half dozen of the 8x10s were mangled/bent in half because of the output tray I had to make smaller to keep the smaller pics from flying all over the floor.Yeah, I should have thought better. More YEAH tho - they should have a design that can handle scanning various sizes in one batch - which as mentioned - they advertise! Or don't advertise and advise against it.Anyway of course, would have kept it even only having decent resolution, but back it goes for this idiocy. 6 irreplaceable photos for $500 pile of plastic - nah.
originally posted on microcenter.com
When you're getting this you're paying to have your time saved. Realistically scanning hundreds of photos is frustrating, takes a hell long time and it can be hard. This makes it fast and easy. One major con about this though. The quality is not the best. You're going yo sacrifice quality for faster speed. The scanner will inevitably leave some marks on the photos afte scanning. No matter how long or often you clean it, it will never go away. I talked to Epson and literally showed them a test image. They said this is normal and is expected. The actual scanned photos aren't terrible and they are viewable, but don't expect to see them as they are physically because they won't be. Most scanners won't have them like the physical version anyway. If you have tons of ... MoreWhen you're getting this you're paying to have your time saved. Realistically scanning hundreds of photos is frustrating, takes a hell long time and it can be hard. This makes it fast and easy. One major con about this though. The quality is not the best. You're going yo sacrifice quality for faster speed. The scanner will inevitably leave some marks on the photos afte scanning. No matter how long or often you clean it, it will never go away. I talked to Epson and literally showed them a test image. They said this is normal and is expected. The actual scanned photos aren't terrible and they are viewable, but don't expect to see them as they are physically because they won't be. Most scanners won't have them like the physical version anyway. If you have tons of photos, use it but also at the same time learn photo editing software and learn it well because you need that along with this, it's mandatory.
originally posted on officedepot.com
I've scanned stuff since about Windows 95. It used to be a very long and tedious effort. And I know what it's like to try and meet a deadline while needing to retouch or spot-doctor scans in Photoshop. Odd color shifts and all. I scanned a couple hundred snapshots with a decent older flatbed, and VueScan set on repeat, and I thought I would never finish. Even recently, using a flatbed and doing auto-crop, multiple photos in one pass, took far more dreaded manual labor than I thought worthy.What I really needed all this time was an Epson FastFoto. Recently I had a sudden need for another one of those projects with 200 scans. Old art postcards c.1900, and postcard photos of odd sizes with family messages on the back. I ordered the scanner from my local Office Depot ... MoreI've scanned stuff since about Windows 95. It used to be a very long and tedious effort. And I know what it's like to try and meet a deadline while needing to retouch or spot-doctor scans in Photoshop. Odd color shifts and all. I scanned a couple hundred snapshots with a decent older flatbed, and VueScan set on repeat, and I thought I would never finish. Even recently, using a flatbed and doing auto-crop, multiple photos in one pass, took far more dreaded manual labor than I thought worthy.What I really needed all this time was an Epson FastFoto. Recently I had a sudden need for another one of those projects with 200 scans. Old art postcards c.1900, and postcard photos of odd sizes with family messages on the back. I ordered the scanner from my local Office Depot and they had it waiting for pickup in less than half an hour.I stacked the cards a handful at a time, per instructions. Automatically fed the stack, at astonishing speed. Spit them back out with no mechanical strain, one per second. 300 dot per inch resolution, scanned front and back, in an instant. The files appeared in my folder before I could gasp. Plus, a very nice color-corrected extra copy made from the raw front scan.I was skeptical. The brightened versions were very nicely done by default. No manual intervention. And as good as I could have done, if I loaded some touch-up software and worked for hours. In every case, I kept the automatically adjusted versions.I also used it to scan several full printed pages for archive storage. I will certainly be doing more of that. It is really fast no matter how you use it.I can't tell you how pleased I was with this purchase. It is a huge upgrade from what I am used to using. The machine is compact, sturdy, accurate, gentle, and screamin fast. It set up wirelessly in about three minutes.I will never get back the time I spent in manual labor on those other projects. I am very glad to finally have a nearly labor-free machine. Now I am eager to take on bulk projects with no worries.I was so happy I went back to Office Depot and bought another scanner, an Epson V600 flatbed for scanning flat media and photographic film. Rather than go back to running slow on those materials too. I scanned a batch of slides from the 1960s a few years back, and I know Digital Ice will work better in this flatbed realm. For stuff I can't run through the FastFoto.
| Scanning | |
| ADF scan speed (colour, A4) | 45 ppm |
| ADF scan speed (b/w, A4) | 45 ppm |
| Output monochrome depth | 8 bit |
| Output colour depth | 24 bit |
Epson FastFoto FF-680W Wireless High-Speed Photo and Document Scanning System Black
Delivery $29.90
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Epson FastFoto FF-680W
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Epson Ff-680w Fastfoto Wireless Photo And Document Scanner ( B11b237501 )
Delivery between 29 June – 2 July $18
Epson Fastfoto Ff-680w • Lsw-ff680w
Delivery $28
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Fairly decent speeds. (once you ignore the fairly ridiculous 300 dpi and the fake 1200 dpi... so the one remaining setting : 600) I'm rather a traditionalist so the goofy photo "enhancements" were quickly ignored. Ran though, I don't know, couple hundred small 3x5 prints. As they tended to fly all over the floor I set the output tray much smaller.Here is when things when awry. (sure a good chunk of user - well I won't call it error - happened)The international company known for printing advertises "sure, shove 36 pictures of any size in here and go for it! and for the privilege we charge you quite a few Benjamin but boy you're gonna be happy!"Put the last few 3x5s in there with a good chunk of 8x10s (which can only be scanned vertically btw) and proceeded on ... MoreFairly decent speeds. (once you ignore the fairly ridiculous 300 dpi and the fake 1200 dpi... so the one remaining setting : 600) I'm rather a traditionalist so the goofy photo "enhancements" were quickly ignored. Ran though, I don't know, couple hundred small 3x5 prints. As they tended to fly all over the floor I set the output tray much smaller.Here is when things when awry. (sure a good chunk of user - well I won't call it error - happened)The international company known for printing advertises "sure, shove 36 pictures of any size in here and go for it! and for the privilege we charge you quite a few Benjamin but boy you're gonna be happy!"Put the last few 3x5s in there with a good chunk of 8x10s (which can only be scanned vertically btw) and proceeded on my way. (PC and scanner are in different rooms.)Went to check after a few and a good half dozen of the 8x10s were mangled/bent in half because of the output tray I had to make smaller to keep the smaller pics from flying all over the floor.Yeah, I should have thought better. More YEAH tho - they should have a design that can handle scanning various sizes in one batch - which as mentioned - they advertise! Or don't advertise and advise against it.Anyway of course, would have kept it even only having decent resolution, but back it goes for this idiocy. 6 irreplaceable photos for $500 pile of plastic - nah.
When you're getting this you're paying to have your time saved. Realistically scanning hundreds of photos is frustrating, takes a hell long time and it can be hard. This makes it fast and easy. One major con about this though. The quality is not the best. You're going yo sacrifice quality for faster speed. The scanner will inevitably leave some marks on the photos afte scanning. No matter how long or often you clean it, it will never go away. I talked to Epson and literally showed them a test image. They said this is normal and is expected. The actual scanned photos aren't terrible and they are viewable, but don't expect to see them as they are physically because they won't be. Most scanners won't have them like the physical version anyway. If you have tons of ... MoreWhen you're getting this you're paying to have your time saved. Realistically scanning hundreds of photos is frustrating, takes a hell long time and it can be hard. This makes it fast and easy. One major con about this though. The quality is not the best. You're going yo sacrifice quality for faster speed. The scanner will inevitably leave some marks on the photos afte scanning. No matter how long or often you clean it, it will never go away. I talked to Epson and literally showed them a test image. They said this is normal and is expected. The actual scanned photos aren't terrible and they are viewable, but don't expect to see them as they are physically because they won't be. Most scanners won't have them like the physical version anyway. If you have tons of photos, use it but also at the same time learn photo editing software and learn it well because you need that along with this, it's mandatory.
I've scanned stuff since about Windows 95. It used to be a very long and tedious effort. And I know what it's like to try and meet a deadline while needing to retouch or spot-doctor scans in Photoshop. Odd color shifts and all. I scanned a couple hundred snapshots with a decent older flatbed, and VueScan set on repeat, and I thought I would never finish. Even recently, using a flatbed and doing auto-crop, multiple photos in one pass, took far more dreaded manual labor than I thought worthy.What I really needed all this time was an Epson FastFoto. Recently I had a sudden need for another one of those projects with 200 scans. Old art postcards c.1900, and postcard photos of odd sizes with family messages on the back. I ordered the scanner from my local Office Depot ... MoreI've scanned stuff since about Windows 95. It used to be a very long and tedious effort. And I know what it's like to try and meet a deadline while needing to retouch or spot-doctor scans in Photoshop. Odd color shifts and all. I scanned a couple hundred snapshots with a decent older flatbed, and VueScan set on repeat, and I thought I would never finish. Even recently, using a flatbed and doing auto-crop, multiple photos in one pass, took far more dreaded manual labor than I thought worthy.What I really needed all this time was an Epson FastFoto. Recently I had a sudden need for another one of those projects with 200 scans. Old art postcards c.1900, and postcard photos of odd sizes with family messages on the back. I ordered the scanner from my local Office Depot and they had it waiting for pickup in less than half an hour.I stacked the cards a handful at a time, per instructions. Automatically fed the stack, at astonishing speed. Spit them back out with no mechanical strain, one per second. 300 dot per inch resolution, scanned front and back, in an instant. The files appeared in my folder before I could gasp. Plus, a very nice color-corrected extra copy made from the raw front scan.I was skeptical. The brightened versions were very nicely done by default. No manual intervention. And as good as I could have done, if I loaded some touch-up software and worked for hours. In every case, I kept the automatically adjusted versions.I also used it to scan several full printed pages for archive storage. I will certainly be doing more of that. It is really fast no matter how you use it.I can't tell you how pleased I was with this purchase. It is a huge upgrade from what I am used to using. The machine is compact, sturdy, accurate, gentle, and screamin fast. It set up wirelessly in about three minutes.I will never get back the time I spent in manual labor on those other projects. I am very glad to finally have a nearly labor-free machine. Now I am eager to take on bulk projects with no worries.I was so happy I went back to Office Depot and bought another scanner, an Epson V600 flatbed for scanning flat media and photographic film. Rather than go back to running slow on those materials too. I scanned a batch of slides from the 1960s a few years back, and I know Digital Ice will work better in this flatbed realm. For stuff I can't run through the FastFoto.
When you have thousands of photos to scan, this machine is a life saver. Scan quality is about the same as a regular flatbed. Native resolution is 600dpi but the interpolated max 1200dpi does show slightly better quality. Although it can save as TIFF, it only output 24bit format, not 48bit making it irrelevant. At 1200dpi, it scans a few seconds per 4R picture. The bottle neck is the network transfer to the computer rather than the scanning hardware. Wireless works at 2.4GHz band and the initial setup with a USB cable is easy. Just choose the SSID and type in the password. Connection is very stable. I chose wireless for convenience.Software only offers simple functions but runs very reliably. Fade correction is generally good.I was worried about leaving marks on ... MoreWhen you have thousands of photos to scan, this machine is a life saver. Scan quality is about the same as a regular flatbed. Native resolution is 600dpi but the interpolated max 1200dpi does show slightly better quality. Although it can save as TIFF, it only output 24bit format, not 48bit making it irrelevant. At 1200dpi, it scans a few seconds per 4R picture. The bottle neck is the network transfer to the computer rather than the scanning hardware. Wireless works at 2.4GHz band and the initial setup with a USB cable is easy. Just choose the SSID and type in the password. Connection is very stable. I chose wireless for convenience.Software only offers simple functions but runs very reliably. Fade correction is generally good.I was worried about leaving marks on prints as mentioned by other reviewers but so far it is not leaving marks on my pictures.Overall, it does the job as described. Very expensive but currently there is no other less expensive product that can do the same job at similar speed. Wait until it goes onsale.
I purchased this scanner to finally digitize my big boxes of old photo prints. I have digitized about 50 rolls so far without issue. The scanner works quickly - I haven't timed it but it seems to be 1-2 minutes per roll depending on the number of pictures. I haven't had any misfeeds. The only issue has been a couple of Polaroids - it's balky about feeding those. The software works well and allows you to specify directories for a scan using year, month (or season) and free text. The scanned results look good - the software gives you the choice of scanning as-is or automatically applying corrections (sort of like the auto smart fix in Photshop). I'm scanning old 4x6 snapsohots- I can't comment on how it would work on something like high quality art prints.I have ... MoreI purchased this scanner to finally digitize my big boxes of old photo prints. I have digitized about 50 rolls so far without issue. The scanner works quickly - I haven't timed it but it seems to be 1-2 minutes per roll depending on the number of pictures. I haven't had any misfeeds. The only issue has been a couple of Polaroids - it's balky about feeding those. The software works well and allows you to specify directories for a scan using year, month (or season) and free text. The scanned results look good - the software gives you the choice of scanning as-is or automatically applying corrections (sort of like the auto smart fix in Photshop). I'm scanning old 4x6 snapsohots- I can't comment on how it would work on something like high quality art prints.I have also successfully scanned a couple of documents both using Epson's software and directly from Acrobat.When I'm done with my photo scanning (which will be a while - these first 50 rolls have barely made a dent in my backlog) I'll have to decided whether to sell this unit and go back to my old flatbed (higher resolution, but slow warmup and slow scanning), or keep this one with the advantages of speed and the sheet feeder.Based on my experience so far I would definitely recommend this scanner.
I thought about this one for a long time back and forth while reading different reviews for quality and ease of use. Well as far as quality goes, I believe it is second to None but since this is my first one, I guess that is a little hasty.Ease of use, well that is another story, using it to scan a batch of pictures of about 35 each time. Great, smooth and it gives you 2 copies of each photo to compare which is the better picture. I would like a feature to put “Enhanced” pictures in a separate folder and then when you wish to pick the best picture then put them side by side. It has A LOT of functions but also has videos to walk you through the steps. I thought long and hard on this device because of the high price compared to the others, however with maybe 2,000 ... MoreI thought about this one for a long time back and forth while reading different reviews for quality and ease of use. Well as far as quality goes, I believe it is second to None but since this is my first one, I guess that is a little hasty.Ease of use, well that is another story, using it to scan a batch of pictures of about 35 each time. Great, smooth and it gives you 2 copies of each photo to compare which is the better picture. I would like a feature to put “Enhanced” pictures in a separate folder and then when you wish to pick the best picture then put them side by side. It has A LOT of functions but also has videos to walk you through the steps. I thought long and hard on this device because of the high price compared to the others, however with maybe 2,000 photos from my fathers after he passed away, I will save time.The time to complete this task, being able to have face recognition and training videos to walk you through the memories I believe was well worth the $$$.
I wanted a scanner that was both fast and had good quality for personal family photos.I purchased this based on reviews from multiple sources over many weeks.It has scanned over 2500 photos of various sizes.I had only 4 jam errors and 10 double feed errors but follow the simple instructions and you are back to work in seconds.Before you start, please read the instructions they have a lot of info. Then run a few test scans of different sizes and types. ie. double sided, single sided, poloroids.MOST IMPORTANT thing to do, organize your photos before you start scanning. Your job will be much easier and faster.A popup will remind you to clean the scanner.Go to the EPSON website and they have detailed instruction how to complete this.I personally use ... MoreI wanted a scanner that was both fast and had good quality for personal family photos.I purchased this based on reviews from multiple sources over many weeks.It has scanned over 2500 photos of various sizes.I had only 4 jam errors and 10 double feed errors but follow the simple instructions and you are back to work in seconds.Before you start, please read the instructions they have a lot of info. Then run a few test scans of different sizes and types. ie. double sided, single sided, poloroids.MOST IMPORTANT thing to do, organize your photos before you start scanning. Your job will be much easier and faster.A popup will remind you to clean the scanner.Go to the EPSON website and they have detailed instruction how to complete this.I personally use canned air to clean the rollers and the included lint free cloth to clean the scanner glass. I have not seen any dust or streaks added by the scanner. Be careful to keep the air can upright and not to spray any residue into the scanner.I would and do recommend this to anyone with many old printed photos.
I was forced to "upgrade" from my FF-640 when scan lines became a consistent problem regardless of how much cleaning I did. I was weary to buy the FF-680 based on some early reviews of scan quality issues on this machine. I'm posting this review to confirm that indeed, the FF-680 is a flawed piece of equipment if the image quality of your scans is of importance. Specifically, the color and tonality of many scans from my FF-680 are off - the brights are too bright, the darks too dark, and it is seemingly impossible to reduce the contrast using the meager software provided by Epson (I use what they refer to as the "document" image processor, only because the "photo" image processor doesn't allow for border margins). This is especially true for black and white photos. ... MoreI was forced to "upgrade" from my FF-640 when scan lines became a consistent problem regardless of how much cleaning I did. I was weary to buy the FF-680 based on some early reviews of scan quality issues on this machine. I'm posting this review to confirm that indeed, the FF-680 is a flawed piece of equipment if the image quality of your scans is of importance. Specifically, the color and tonality of many scans from my FF-680 are off - the brights are too bright, the darks too dark, and it is seemingly impossible to reduce the contrast using the meager software provided by Epson (I use what they refer to as the "document" image processor, only because the "photo" image processor doesn't allow for border margins). This is especially true for black and white photos. I've called Epson to discuss and they were not helpful, or at least, there's nothing they can do at this point. The machine is flawed, the software is weak. Of course, it works well if you're not particular about your image quality - scans quickly and easily, images are decent. Beware if you are at all particular about image quality - steer clear.
I have only scanned a few photos. I watched all the same reviews you probably did and image quality is excellent. However like many others, connecting this scanner to your existing wireless network is needlessly complicated. WPS was never a great implementation for many and many routers no longer even support. We have Unifi system which does not. I wanted a WiFi connection as tethering with USB cable (USB 2... really?) was not practical due to space issues. So I went through the Epson instructions for network connection, many, many times. I used the network scanning application, pushed WiFi buttons... and the scanner just never appeared in ANY list on my iMac. So frustrating. Save yourself some time and just use your phone to setup.1. get the phone app. I used ... MoreI have only scanned a few photos. I watched all the same reviews you probably did and image quality is excellent. However like many others, connecting this scanner to your existing wireless network is needlessly complicated. WPS was never a great implementation for many and many routers no longer even support. We have Unifi system which does not. I wanted a WiFi connection as tethering with USB cable (USB 2... really?) was not practical due to space issues. So I went through the Epson instructions for network connection, many, many times. I used the network scanning application, pushed WiFi buttons... and the scanner just never appeared in ANY list on my iMac. So frustrating. Save yourself some time and just use your phone to setup.1. get the phone app. I used Epson FastFoto for iPhone. I assume Android will be same.2. Take a picture of the label on the back of the scanner so that you can have the password for the 'SSID-Direct' network3. Follow the instructions on the app. You will need to go to your phone network settings and you will see the network being broadcast by the scanner. Enter your password.4. Once you have connected to your scanner's broadcast SSID network, you will then see your home network. App will ask you to enter the password for your home network.5. Once you enter that, your scanner will then connect to your home network.6. Go to your iMac or PC and run setup again. Now you will see your scanner listed and just click on it. Follow the instructions. You are all set.I would change to 5 star once Epson addresses the network connection and eliminates WPS as a method.
When you get this item you're paying to have am immense amount of your time saved but there's a tradeoff. The quality of the pics are not that good. It will leave unnecessary marks and noise on the pics. Don't listen to the positive reviews. Most people don't care about quality and just want to get it done. If you do value high quality and fast speed, expect to pay a few thousand on something that is extremely rare to find. For what it's worth it has saved me the frustration and annoyance with flat bed, but the time investment into scanning pics on flatbed is better. You will probably have to invest in photo editing software. It is not optional, it is mandatory. Even at the highest settings on my pics they really have a lower quality look to them. The whole purpose ... MoreWhen you get this item you're paying to have am immense amount of your time saved but there's a tradeoff. The quality of the pics are not that good. It will leave unnecessary marks and noise on the pics. Don't listen to the positive reviews. Most people don't care about quality and just want to get it done. If you do value high quality and fast speed, expect to pay a few thousand on something that is extremely rare to find. For what it's worth it has saved me the frustration and annoyance with flat bed, but the time investment into scanning pics on flatbed is better. You will probably have to invest in photo editing software. It is not optional, it is mandatory. Even at the highest settings on my pics they really have a lower quality look to them. The whole purpose of this scanner is useless if you edit them so basically you're just paying to have automatic cropping to pics and batch scanning, nothing else really. Epson's engineering and design on their scanners is terrible. I've used a few others and this as well. They leave all this crap and artifacts on my scans. Even with proper care they still can't even manage to design a well built good quality machine..I called the tech support and they tell me that all this stuff on my pics from this scanner is "normal." Like why even design it and release it anyway? Epson needs to step up their game. If you find an extremely expensive scanner more expensive than this then it will probably do a good job. This is a quick one and done thing, don't have high expectation.
| Scanning | |
| ADF scan speed (colour, A4) | 45 ppm |
| ADF scan speed (b/w, A4) | 45 ppm |
| Output monochrome depth | 8 bit |
| Output colour depth | 24 bit |
