Everything you need: unbiased reviews, product specs and great deals.
|
Epson Perfection 4180 Flatbed Scanner"The EPSON Perfection 4180 Photo is a high-quality consumer scanner combining maximum hardware resolution of 4800 x 9600 dpi and 3.4...
Read More
"The EPSON Perfection 4180 Photo is a high-quality consumer scanner combining maximum hardware resolution of 4800 x 9600 dpi and 3.4 Dmax along with an affordable price. This scanner is ideal for advanced amateur photographers or photo enthusiasts with its built-in adapter that allows for scanning multiple 35mm slides, negatives and 2 1/4"" transparencies. The scanner has the ability to create stunning color reprints and enlargements with ease, and is especially convenient for scanning and restoring old photographs with Epson Easy Photo Fix technology. In addition to the Epson Easy Photo Fix technology, the scanner offers fully automatic scanning for increased productivity, plus two advanced scanning modes for greater control. Users will also benefit from a full-featured software solution that includes Adobe(R) PhotoShop(R) Elements 2.0, ABBYY(R) FineReader Sprint OCR, NewSoft(TM) Presto!(R) BizCard, as well as the Epson Scan driver and Epson Smart Panel(TM)."
Minimize
|
|
12 Reviews from Shopping.com
|
Good scanner
| Author's Rating: |
|
Pros: Good scan quality, transparent material scanning
Cons: Noisy
The Bottom Line:
Good scanner for the cost
I bought this scanner refurbished 3 years ago, and it's still going strong. I have used this scanner for negatives, positives, and standard reflective media, and this scanner does well with whatever media you throw at it. The front buttons work in the Mac OS, unlike some other scanners I have seen. This scanner is fairly easy to use, especially when using the "Full Auto Mode", but I personally use the "Professional Mode" to give myself more control of the scan. There is also a home mode which is simpler than Pro, but allows much more control than Full Auto. The only thing I don't like about this unit is that it is fairly noisy while operating, but that honestly is just a minor gripe. The price for this scanner was fairly good at $100. It'll allow the scanning of up to 12 frames of negatives, or 4 slides. While this is very convenient, the scanner scans one frame, returns to the resting position, and then scans the next frame. This doesn't make sense to me. I believe that it would be easier and faster to scan the entire bed first, then separate the pictures, but that's not how this scanner operates.
Back to all reviews
