The Epson Perfection ® V600 Photo delivers outstanding performance with 6400dpi resolution, 3.4Dmax and exceptionally high quality document and film scanning capabilities, with the ability toscan film as large as 6 x 22cms. In addition, the scanner features Epson's superior Matrix CCD Micro Lens technology, energy efficient ReadyScan ® LED technology and fast scanning speeds of 6 seconds.

We would consider the Epson Perfection V600 somewhat of a niche product. It eschews the automatic digital enhancement that other flatbed scanners use to make the scanned photos look better. This makes its scans more accurate to the originals, but the enhancement employed by other models generally makes the scans look better overall. So if you want the digital scans of your vintage photos to retain all of that signature vintage-ness, the Epson Perfection is a good choice. If you just want your photo scans to look as good as possible, the. Performance Comparison While we generally liked the Epson Perfection, some trouble with its software hurt its overall score. For more specifics on its performance attributes, read on below.

Scanning Performance The Epson Perfection is quite a capable flatbed scanner, but overall we preferred the scans created by the CanoScan Photo Scanning Quality The Epson PErfection lives up to its name when scanning photos, creating near perfect representations of the originals. We say 'near perfect' because you're always going to lose some quality when converting an image, so you may sometimes notice that the scans look ever so slightly less sharp or vibrant than the originals. In contrast the CanoScan use image enhancement to negate this slight loss, in many cases making the scans look a bit sharper and vibrant than the originals. However, these scans were less accurate to the originals than those produced by the Epson Perfection, so you'll have to decide whether you prefer quality or accuracy.

The Epson Perfection does offer option image enhancement (they call it ICE - image enhancement and correction). We found that this mostly focuses on removing damage, like cracks and dust that have damaged a photo. It doesn't do much in terms of color correction. Thus we still preferred the images scanned from the Canon CanoScan over those that underwent Epson's ICE procedure.

Epson Perfection V600 Photo Scanner driver and software for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. How to left click on a mac. Epson V600 Windows Scanner. OS X (v10.6.x), Mac OS X (v10.5) Epson.

Text Scanning Quality Like other flatbed models we tested, the Epson Perfection produces good-looking text, though very small fonts may look a bit fuzzier than what high-end document scanners produce. The Perfection is certainly of a high enough quality to handle all of your text-based documents, though it scans them very slowly. The Canon CanoScan 9000F MKII (right) and Epson Perfection V600 (left) produced comparable scans for documents. Speed The Epson Perfection is quite slow. In our testing it took an average of 60 seconds to scan an 8'x11' page.

This was 3 times as slow as the other flatbed we tested, the CanoScan. If you're looking for the most accurate scans possible that lack of speed is likely a worthwhile sacrifice. However, if you're in the middle of digitizing stacks of family photo albums, you'll likely appreciate the extra speed of the CanoScan.