New Epson Scanner Restores Photos

Epson claims that its new V600 scanner can restore positive and negative film, photos, and documents.

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The Perfection V600 is capable of scanning at up to 6400 x 9600dpi optical resolution at a 48 bit colour depth, and scan an A4page at 300 dpi in as little as 6 seconds. It uses the company’s ReadyScan LED Technology, reducing power use and heat output, eliminating mercury from the light source, and reducing start-up time to less than one second.

For efficient and flexible film scanning, the Perfection V600 Photo has a fully integrated transparency unit (TPU) and film holder for a wide variety of film formats, including 12 frames of 35mm filmstrip, 4 frames of 35mm mounted slides and medium format up to 6 x 22cms.

The Perfection V600 Photo is also equipped with Digital ICE technology that uses both hardware and software during the scanning process to detect and remove dust and scratch marks on both film and photo scans.

The Epson Scan software can be used either as a TWAIN driver within programs such as Adobe Photoshop, or as a full functional standalone program, delivering scanning and photo features. It also has four pre-set modes – Full Auto, Home, Office and Professional – to meet the needs of any user.

The Perfection V600 Photo comes with Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 and ABBYY Fine Reader Sprint and is compatible with Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional/ XP Home edition/ XP Professional/ XP Professional x64 Edition/ Vista (pre-installed model), and Mac OS 10.2.8 or later.

The Epson Perfection V600 Photo is available now for $549.