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1. #EPSON PERFECTION V200 SCANNER REVIEW FULL VERSION#
2. #EPSON PERFECTION V200 SCANNER REVIEW PROFESSIONAL#

To produce such a clean editable page so quickly makes this a very handy archival scanner. Although the layout of our test page isn’t that complex, there’s a lot of non-standard text, such as filenames in all-caps. This is due in part to the efficiency of the Abbyy software, which also managed a perfect conversion. Cold cathode lights, although cold, still take time to start emitting steady light.Ī 300dpi greyscale scan of the same A4 page took 13 seconds to scan and OCR, which is fast.

Their key advantage is that they take much less time to turn on and reach a stable light than cold cathode tubes.

#EPSON PERFECTION V200 SCANNER REVIEW PROFESSIONAL#

Things have changed and LED light sources are well up to use in all but the most exacting, professional scanners. LEDs, which used to be found only in cheaper scanners where cost is key, used to suffer from peaky light output, which wasn’t as white as it should be. Starting from the simplest 200ppi A4 black and white scan, which took just eight seconds, it takes very little time to start scanning, thanks to its white LED light source. The Epson Perfection V600 Photo is a quick scanner. Finally, there’s Professional mode, which gives you access to all the available setting choices.Īlso bundled are Abbyy FineReader 9 Sprint, for Optical Character Recognition (OCR), and Digital ICE, which automatically removes dust marks from scanned originals. Home mode gives a little more control, while Office mode offers extra settings again, though still with an eye on productivity.

#EPSON PERFECTION V200 SCANNER REVIEW FULL VERSION#

The bundled software includes a full version of Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 (Mac, version 6) and Epson’s excellent Scan utility, which works in four different modes with increasing levels of control.įull Auto does what it says and using default settings, scans whatever’s on the flatbed. Two reversible templates are provided to lay on the flatbed, which between them enable negatives and slides, both 35mm and medium format, to be easily positioned for scanning. Under the Epson Perfection V600 Photo’s lid you can slide off the document mat to reveal a light source for the transparency scanner. In a device the size, it’s a shame the mains supply can’t be built into the body of the scanner. At the back, the only sockets are for USB connection and for the scanner’s external power supply. It’s spring counterbalanced to stay open at 45 degree and 90 degree angles, and has extending hinges, so you can scan from bound documents.Īt the front, four scanning buttons, set by default to tasks such as copy, scan to e-mail and scan to PDF, can be programmed to start other applications, too. The lid is deep, as it includes the backlighting for the transparency scanner. This is a tall, deep scanner, all black but for a silver keyline around the edge of its lid. Coming in at under £200, it includes the photo restoration software, Digital ICE. Epson’s Perfection V600 Photo is aimed at the photo enthusiast, either keen amateur or semi-pro. There are several classes of flatbed scanner, from cheap and cheerful top-of-an-all-in-one class to multi-thousand pound professional art capture devices.