poor quality scanned photos
1193375
I've had no problems with poor quality scanned photos. The default is set to 300dpi, have you tried increasing it to 600dpi? That's what I always use and that works for me. I believe the max is 1200dpi. You may want to play around with that setting and see. Also don't be fooled by the scan preview, it's not an exact representation of what the scanned photo/doc will look. Hope that helps.
1193376
I have had only good scans from photos. As you probably know you have to have glossy finish photos. Matte finish will give you lots of white and black specks due to the texture of the paper. That applies to any scanner. And of course set your dpi to 300 or greater if you want excellent quality. Epson has an excellent image color and brightness/contrast editing option as well.
1193377
I have not noticed any markedly less quality compared to the HP Photosmart scanners I had before, but it may not be quite as good as my dedicated Canon scanner. If scanning photos is your primary objective, I would not rely on the Epson WorkForce. I would get a dedicated scanner.
1193378
I have not used photo paper. The quality is less than the original in both color brilliance and tone. The photos are also less sharp. But the regular paper vs photo paper probably is the major reason. I would investigate further if you are planning to use it when photo resolution is very important.
1193379
Absolutely not! You just have to adjust the settings. I work as a comic inker and have to scan my inked comic boards into the computer to convert the files for coloring and printing. And they have to be very high quality scans to preserve the integrity of the work for this process. This is what I use my workforce epson scanner for. So if you adjust the settings to a higher quality, this scanner does wonderfully.
420686
As there is no disc/software as with the Kodak, just convert them to jpegs ( in a seperate iPhoto file/so you don't get the lower res photos mixed up and you should be good to go.
1114353
thanks for the input .....I had gone ahead and ordered the Scan-Snap but had decided to return it before it even arrived. Your response just made me know that I made the right decision. My plan now is to sort through all those photos and send the best of the lot to a company such as Best Photo Scanning and let them preserve them on discs for me.
671061
Not really. I tried scanning OLD poloroid photos that were glued to the back of cardboard, you may be too young to remember those, but it didn't like those too much and I used my big copier/scanner for those. Also, it likes some old newpaper and not other so I would be careful about what you put thru. It did an amazing job on my photos, tho, like we got printed in the old days from Walgreen's so you can compare your project to those items. My Mom uses it for her printed out geneology that is on regular 20# printer paper and it does great. Don't know if I answered your questions but I tried.
2193418
I believe they are strips of 35mm negatives. I don't know much about photography so I wasn't aware there were different size negatives. I didn't really use mine to scan negatives. I mostly scanned printed photos 4x6 or smaller and was very happy with that. I scanned some mounted slides and it is a slower process with mostly good results though darker slides seemed to become grainy.
358845
Just from reading reviews the still shots are not good. they are .3 megapixels... which are like 640 pixels wide. definatly not print quality.
1371736
I have not tried scanning photos. I will give it a try and let you know next week.
2267612
I had to unspool and cut the negatives at a length to match the length of the film adapter so it could be held firmly at both ends.The film was too narrow to be supported by the holder. I used the professional mode and unchecked thumbnails, and did a preview. I manually selected the images from the preview- about 3/4 by 1.25 inches per frame. Scanned at 4800. The color was off- I used Adobe Photoshop 7 to adjust levels. The resulting image was pretty good, about the same quality as the photo that was developed from it. I had first tried forcing the uncut film into the holder, which meant damaging at least one frame. And it did not hold it precisely enough to get a good scan. All, and all, proabably not a very good way to scan APS film.
1204693
I returned this because the poor quality of transfers from slides and prints. You can do better with a scanner, but it takes longer. For photos, I got better results by taking a picture with my camera. To get a great converter you'll have to spend $600.
1302712
I never timed anything I scanned. Nothing, documents or photos took more than 20 sec. Hope that helps.
831435
I have scanned several photos and they come out very well. I think the max resolution is 600DPI which is probably about as good as the quality of the photograph itself. The larger the photo the clearer the scan will be. I found the saving the pictures as a .pdf seem to give you a little better quality than a .jpg and also works well if you are using a MAC.
1674902
I actually returned this camera because of this exact problem. The pictures were very smeared like a painting. I would go with the Canon S or G series over this.
1891067
Disappointed with the scan quality at 5 megapixels, and slide loading often stuck and became tedious. That's why I sent this scanner back and upgraded to the Ion Omni Scan unit, which does better scans at 9 megapixels and is much easier to individually load slides.
1581008
I have had the same problem on a few of the photos I have scanned in. I clean the scanner and also try changing the orientation of the picture that I'm scanning in. Somehow, there is no line after this. Good luck!
1043270
Photos are loaded and scanned individually.Although I LOVE my ION scanner, I would not recommend you purchase it to scan photos. Buy an inexpensive flatbed scanner, instead. This item is great for scanning negatives - and that's what I use it for. The quality of the scanned photos is not that great, however.
1756144
I have the 8600F and have scanned 14 rolls of 24 exposure film. All but one roll worked fine. One roll some pictures look over-exposed and about half of the jpg's look like negatives. I was able to use Adobe photo elements and do a negative on it and color balance to get it to look near normal. There are still a half dozen or more that the colors are all off if I try this. If anyone has figured out a cause and/or solution, please let me know as well! Thanks.
2037318
Yes. It does a good KOB scanning documents for reprint or to email. I'm not sure about photos as I haven't ever tried to scan and reprint those.