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Epson Perfection V500 Photo Scanner
The Epson Perfection V500 Photo offers extraordinary quality and versatility with 6400 dpi resolution and an earth-friendly LED light source for greater productivity — all at an amazing value. Remove dust and scratches from slides, negatives and film. Or, restore faded color photos with one touch. Then, take your photos further with the included Adobe Photoshop Elements.

When it's time to archive important documents, you can scan multiple documents fast with the optional automatic document feeder. It's all at your fingertips with this powerful performer. Best of all, the energy-efficient LED means you can work smarter with fast scans and lower power consumption. Plus, with no warmup time, it's easier than ever to get started. This product is Certified for Windows Vista.

Epson Perfection V500 Photo Scanner Reviews

REVIEW BY: Reviewed Apr 19, 2008

Setup was easy on my XP Pro desktop and the scanner worked great right out of the box. Front panel push buttons send your document directly to a jpeg file, or a printer, or to a pdf document quickly and automatically, but of course you can also fire up the application and initiate scans from your computer. Scan quality has been very good, although I'll admit that changing settings seems a little bit clumsier than other software I have used ... possibly I just need to get more familiar with it. I love the instant scanning provided by the LED light source (no waiting for a bulb to warm up), and previews and scans are both fast. I don't find the whirring noises objectionable, by the way ... they're just a bit higher pitched than any other scanner I've had. I'm guessing Epson uses high-resolution stepper motors for the actuators, which in my opinion is a better mechanism than DC motors and positioning sensors.

REVIEW BY: Lowell Reviewed Jan 23, 2008

Scanner worked great right out of the box, replacing my HP scanner. Much better quality scans, much quicker, no warm up! Scanner is very quiet compared to my past scanners. I was already running Photoshop 6 so I did not load Photoshop Elements 4. The only issue I found is that my quick touch buttons on the scanner do not work, but Epson Perfection V500 Photo Scanner is probably because I did not load all of the factory software from Epson. Would highly reccomend & would buy again. Fast delivery from Tiger Direct.

REVIEW BY: Bob Reviewed May 14, 2008

Epson Perfection V500 Photo Scanner is my first photo scanner and it has worked quite well on prints, slides and negatives after a few hours of experimentation. It has done a fine job of recovering good images even from films that will not lie flat, like my old small 110 negatives that are severely distorted from shrinkage of the sleeves used in processing 35 years ago, (for which no Epson film frame is provided). After preview time, it takes about 40 minutes to scan twelve 110 film images at 6400 ppi. (Probably excessive resolution, but I'm trying to recover anything there.) The first image is available for processing in about 4 minutes, so scanning time can be used productively. Photoshop Elements 4 requires XP, not W2K, so I used the processing software that came with my camera, instead. I recommend a minimum of 1GB of memory to be able to photoprocess multiple images while scanning. The digital ICE feature is fabulous for eliminating dust on negatives and slides!!! It's doing what I needed it to do.

REVIEW BY: Kell Reviewed Dec 27, 2007

This is a great scanner when working with photos. This comes packed with Adobe Elements and Epson's edit software. Only one annoyance, it sounds like a cousin of ''R2-D2'' when scanning. This thing is load with its continuing whirls and beeps. The scan quality is good as expected. If you are okay with a ''loud'' scan process, then this scanner is for you. Otherwise go with ''Visioneer'' instead. Also, buy online instead of buying Direct from the Outlet store off of Route 59,Il. Unless you rather prefer waiting a half of hour in the ''pull-from-warehouse'' line and another hour in the checkout line to pay/pickup. There are plenty of employees standing around without direction, just poor system when buying direct at Tiger Direct.

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