Product Description

Scan film, photos and 3D objects with amazing clarity and detail ¿ the value-priced Epson Perfection V300 Photo makes it easier than ever with 4800 dpi optical resolution and a host of family-friendly features. Use the built-in Transparency Unit to scan up to 6 negative frames or 4 slides at one time. With the scanner¿s remarkable resolution, you can easily create extraordinary enlargements. And, if you want to bring those faded family photos back to life, you can use the V300 Photo to easily restore the color. This versatile performer even includes a high-rise lid for scanning books and other 3D objects. And, it offers easy setup and one-touch scanning. So, whether you choose to archive important documents or copy the soccer team photo, you can be up and running in no time. Best of all, with an innovative, LED light source, the V300 Photo provides fast scans with no warmup time.

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Product Details

• Color: Black
• Brand: Epson
• Model: B11B193081
• Platform: Windows
• Format: CD
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 2.20" h x 11.00" w x 16.90" l, 5.70 pounds

Features

• 4800 x 9600 dpi optical resolution
• Scan 35mm film ó built-in Transparency Unit
• Beautiful enlargements up to 13 x 19 from film
• Advanced Digital Dust Correction
• One-touch photo restoration

From the Manufacturer
Scan film, photos and 3D objects with amazing clarity and detail - the value-priced Epson Perfection V300 Photo makes it easier than ever with 4800 dpi optical resolution and a host of family-friendly features. Use the built-in Transparency Unit to scan up to 6 negative frames or 4 slides at one time. With the scanner’s remarkable resolution, you can easily create extraordinary enlargements. And, if you want to bring those faded family photos back to life, you can use the V300 Photo to easily restore the color. This versatile performer even includes a high-rise lid for scanning books and other 3D objects. And, it offers easy setup and one-touch scanning. So, whether you choose to archive important documents or copy the soccer team photo, you can be up and running in no time. Best of all, with an innovative, LED light source, the V300 Photo provides fast scans with no warmup time.

The Epson Perfection V300 Photo uses the innovative ReadyScan™ LED technology

Restore the color in old, faded photos using Epson Easy Photo Fix®

ReadyScan™ LED technology
This energy-efficient light source uses less power, while ensuring greater productivity. And, there's no warmup time required. Best of all, with no mercury included, this LED technology is better for the environment.

Photo restoration with Easy Photo Fix®
Dig out that shoebox full of old, faded photos and restore the color with one touch. Just lay your faded photo on the scanner bed and, with a simple mouse click, you can bring those faded photos back to life. You'll be amazed at how quick and easy it is. Along with color restoration, Easy Photo Fix also includes Digital Dust Correction and Backlight Correction.

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What the press is saying:

	"Epson also outfitted its newest addition with ReadyScan LED technology, which is more energy efficient and requires no warm-up time when compared to traditional mercury-filled cathode fluorescent lamps used in scanners" Staff, Electronista (8.22.2009), take with permission from electronista.com
	"...the Perfection V300 Photo, with its 4800 dpi optical scanning resolution and transparency scan support, is a good choice for those looking to take their snapshots, negatives, and slides into the digital age." James Galbraith, Macworld (10.21.2008)

 

 

 

 

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Scan 35mm slides and negatives with ease using the built-in Transparency Unit for beautiful enlargements up to 13x19

Create beautiful enlargements from 35mm slides and negatives
Use the built-in Transparency Unit to scan four mounted 35mm slides or six frames of 35mm film. With the Perfection V300 Photo’s 4800 dpi optical resolution, you can create enlargements from your 35mm film from 4x6 to 13x19.

One-touch and Full Automatic scanning
The Epson Perfection V300 Photo features four one-touch scanning buttons - Scan, E-Mail, Copy and PDF - while the Epson Scan driver features four scan modes to accommodate users from beginners to experts. Full Automatic Mode provides automatic scanning of photos, documents and film. Home Mode provides more control over scans with easy-to-follow settings menus. Professional Mode offers image correction tools for advanced users including histogram, tonal curves and a densitometer. New to the Perfection V300 Photo is Office Mode, which gives users functionality found in Epson’s document scanners including threshold control, text enhancement and color dropout.

High-rise 180-degree lid
Perfect for scanning scrapbooks, photo albums or 3D objects, this unique feature allows you to lift the scanner lid 180 degrees to accommodate oversized originals.

Features/Benefits

• Achieve exceptional clarity and detail with 4800 x 9600 dpi optical resolution
• Scan 35mm slides and negatives with ease using the built-in Transparency Unit (for beautiful enlargements up to 13x19)
• Restore the color to old, faded photos with one touch
• Do more with one-touch document scanning — send e-mails or create PDFs
• Quickly copy documents and photos for archiving purposes
• Enjoy remarkable versatility, plus fully automatic scanning
• Scan books, photo albums and 3D objects with high-rise, 180-degree lid
• Enjoy more efficient operation with exclusive ReadyScan™ LED technology — no warmup time and fast scanning speeds
• Rest easy with earth-friendly LED technology — no mercury included and lower power consumption
• Enhance your images with photo editing and creative software included
• Scan text with amazing clarity — Office Mode delivers sharp scans, even if text is on colored paper or a double-sided document

What’s in the Box
Epson Perfection V300 Photo scanner; Transparency Unit (built into lid); Film holder for 35mm film strips and mounted slides; CD-ROM software; Start Here poster; Hi-Speed USB 2.0 cable; AC adapter

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Customer Reviews

great home scanner
Over the years I have been through several scanners both at work and at home. This Epson V300 is the latest home scanner for me.

Speed: Back then a high resolution scanner was like 600dpi and required a SCSI connection in order to transfer that amount of information in reasonable amount of time. Thankfully, these days USB2 is ubiquitous and relatively high speed, so the bottleneck is really no longer at the connection nor the scanner. Instead, I found that I am usually CPU bounded because of all the image processing that happens *after* the data has been transfered to my computer. After all, 4800x9600dpi is a lot of information to go through. So yes, it can give you a slow scanning experience, but it's not the scanner's problem at all. I also note this scanner use an LED lighting source, the warmup time is about three seconds. This is much shorter than the older CFL scanners that can take a minute or two to warm up.

Scanning quality: This is top-notch, especially given the price. I've seen results from much more expensive scanners including an high-end scanner from HP. At 1200dpi, which is a common setting for my workflow, I don't detect any material differences in the images, which is a good sign. If anything, the tiny difference is in the optical performance, most likely due to the coating on the glass that separates the document and the sensor. In particular, I do see a bit more chromatic aberration. However, this is something that can be corrected in software and I believe it is present in all scanners.

Software: Having been an HP user for so long, I find the Epson Scan utility to be adequate and I actually like it better than HP's offering. It has all the features that I expect. Note that I did not install the other two included softwares---"Arcsoft MediaImpression" and "ABBYY Fine Reader Spring Plus OCR". The former I have no interest, the second one is a lite version of ABBYY's commercial OCR product. I happen to have another OCR solution at my disposal and so I skipped this up-sell offering as well. Note that I am a Windows user and so I can't speak for the Mac side of the story.

Overall, I am positively impressed with this scanner. If this is your first scanner, I don't see anything that can go wrong.

Great product for our needs
Re:
Epson Perfection V300 Photo Color Scanner (Black)

My wife and I decided to create a set of family photo albums as Christmas gifts this year. We acquired numerous old photos from my relatives in Germany while on vacation there. The albums were to be produced electronically. This led to a search for a scanner. Although there are many of these on the market, we limited our search to a basic unit suitable to our needs.

We decided on the Epson scanner simply because we still have an Epson laser printer that dates back to the days of Windows 3.1 and it still works perfectly.

We have not been disappointed with the Epson Perfection V300 that we purchased through Amazon.com. It performs well and flawlessly enacts every facet of its capabilities such as scanning slides or large documents in addition to photos of course.

We recommend this scanner to anyone who merely wants to scan home photos. Obviously, the far more expensive scanners targeted toward the professional market would outclass the V300 but then we would be comparing apples to oranges.

Say goodbye to "Scanner Warming Up"!
Coming from an (admittedly older) Canon LIDE scanner and the scanner in my Canon Pixma MX850 Office All-In-One Printer, LED scanning isn't whiz-bang new technology to me. And frankly, I wasn't expecting to put either scanner out to pasture.

But Epson has proven me wrong with the V300.

One of the biggest pains in scanning images for me, has been waiting for the scanner to warm up, and for the driver to accept that the scanner is warmed up and actually let me scan something. With the V300, you tell it to scan, and it just does. I can't stress how surprised I was to find how such a relatively minor thing made scanning seem like less of a chore.

The quality is excellent, too. Admittedly, my previous scanners were designed with basic home use in mind, however, there really is a noticeable difference in quality, even when I did side-by-side comparisons at the same resolutions.

Getting the scanner to work with my Mac wasn't a problem, either. Pop in the disc, run the installer, and connect the scanner. Next thing I knew, Photoshop CS3 was ready to use it. One thing I really have to say here, is that Epson's scanner drivers blow Canon's out of the water, if you ever pay attention to your Mac's log files. The Epson driver isn't constantly spawning messages to the syslog (or just plain breaking) if you use the scanner on a single computer with multiple users logged in.

The only downside with this (or really any other consumer-grade scanner) is that high-res scans take quite a while. Not quite "go to another room and make yourself breakfast" slow, but you certainly have time to go get yourself a cup of coffee while you wait for an 8x10" photo to scan at high-res. However, the quality of the scan makes the wait worthwhile.

At this price, and with this kind of speed and quality, you really can't go wrong.