Epson Perfection V300 vs. V500 Which One? I'm looking to purchase one of these, but can not see a big difference between the 2. Can someone tell me the difference between them?I am wanting to scan both negatives as well as slides to archive them for family use. I don't have a huge amount, but enough to warrent doing it myself and not ship them out to have done professionally at a lab.All comments welcome! Epson Perfection V300 vs. V500 Which One? I'm looking to purchase one of these, but can not see a big difference between the 2. Can someone tell me the difference between them?I am... » Read More Epson Perfection V300 vs. V500 Which One? I'm looking to purchase one of these, but can not see a big difference between the 2. Can someone tell me the difference between them?I am wanting to scan both negatives as well as slides to archive them for family use. I don't have a huge amount, but enough to warrent doing it myself and not ship them out to have done professionally at a lab.All comments welcome! « Show Less
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I am looking at the V500 compared to the 4490. Any suggestions? The reviews all rave about the V500 for slides and negatives, which I too plan to scan, but I also have many old photos.
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I think the 4490 is the predecessor of the V500. Spec-wise, the 4490 is more similar to the V300. Spend the extra few bucks and save yourself the headache of not having ICE to scan your negatives.
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4490 Has digital ICE, it's in the first part of the product description: "Powerful Digital ICE technology offers built-in dust and scratch removal capabilities for film, while Epson Easy Photo Fix provides one-touch color restoration." It also includes Adobe Elements.
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I am trying to confirm the Epson V500 or Epson V600 software/hardware capability to scan multiple photographs and save as separate files. Can you help?Glen
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Thanks!!! No one else I've asked could answer that question. I'll order one this week.
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Lia I too am looking for a new printer. I have searching the web for reviews and have found only a few which is not much of a help. It apprears the MP 620 looks, please let me know what you think. Thanks:)
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i have three of them it is a professional printer...it is great...buy a scanner they are cheap ......you don't want all of that stuff on a printer..you would get better results with a epson scanner....the scanner has more features...
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Epson shows the 126 as the 'Extra Capacity' but compatible ink cart. It shows the 127's as the MAIN and 'Super Capacity' ink carts. Now the way these folks load up their carts I've gotten a ton of mileage from them before having to change them out - so these 126's could equal a factory-loaded OEM 127. Your mileage may vary and obviously you've gotta take a shot. At these prices though, it's worth it! Your series of printer has a larger slot for the 127's. Our smaller NX's can't handle the double-width of the black 127's. Apparently yours has some pop-up little plastic piece when you use what's considered a 'half-sized' ink cart since the 127's are what Epson calls the default carts. Good luck! Epson shows the 126 as the 'Extra Capacity' but compatible ink cart. It shows the 127's as the MAIN and 'Super Capacity' ink carts. Now the way these folks load up their carts I've gotten a ton of mileage from them before having to change them out - so these 126's could equal a factory-loaded OEM 127. Your mileage may vary and obviously you've gotta take a shot. At these prices though, it's worth it! Your series of printer has a larger slot for the 127's. Our smaller NX's can't handle the double-width of the black 127's. Apparently yours has some pop-up little plastic piece when you use... » Read More Epson shows the 126 as the 'Extra Capacity' but compatible ink cart. It shows the 127's as the MAIN and 'Super Capacity' ink carts. Now the way these folks load up their carts I've gotten a ton of mileage from them before having to change them out - so these 126's could equal a factory-loaded OEM 127. Your mileage may vary and obviously you've gotta take a shot. At these prices though, it's worth it! Your series of printer has a larger slot for the 127's. Our smaller NX's can't handle the double-width of the black 127's. Apparently yours has some pop-up little plastic piece when you use what's considered a 'half-sized' ink cart since the 127's are what Epson calls the default carts. Good luck! « Show Less
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I only own the 2540, but just scanning the specs, it seems as if the 2542 is faster. I can't see any other notable difference: both offer wireless connectivity and the ability to do basic printing jobs as well as scanning and copying. They use the same inks, and the printing & scanning resolution seems similar. You may want to ask HP what the differences between them are (vs whether they are basically the same device). The paper feed on the 2542 may be different? But I can't tell without having one here, and suspect that many others out there own either one or the other but not both, and so may have a tough time addressing this question. I only own the 2540, but just scanning the specs, it seems as if the 2542 is faster. I can't see any other notable difference: both offer wireless connectivity and the ability to do basic printing jobs as well as scanning and copying. They use the same inks, and the printing & scanning resolution seems similar. You may want to ask HP what the differences between them are (vs whether they are basically the same device). The paper feed on the 2542 may be different? But I can't tell without having one here, and suspect that many others out there own either one or the other but not both, and so... » Read More I only own the 2540, but just scanning the specs, it seems as if the 2542 is faster. I can't see any other notable difference: both offer wireless connectivity and the ability to do basic printing jobs as well as scanning and copying. They use the same inks, and the printing & scanning resolution seems similar. You may want to ask HP what the differences between them are (vs whether they are basically the same device). The paper feed on the 2542 may be different? But I can't tell without having one here, and suspect that many others out there own either one or the other but not both, and so may have a tough time addressing this question. « Show Less
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i have three of them it is a professional printer...it is great...buy a scanner they are cheap ......you don't want all of that stuff on a printer.. you would get better results with a epson scanner....the scanner has more features...
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Buy Mr. Hamricks Vuescan. I used it with the Epson Perfection 2450 and got amazing results. Vuescan has built in drivers to use the V700 with OSX.
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I have the black model. A close friend and a daughter-in-law have the silver. The three of us each use a SanDisk, Ultra II, 1GB card. I do all the printing on the same printer, so all comparisons are identical. That said, I see no difference in the prints from black or silver. I just think the black looks better beacause it breaks up all that silver. Interesting comment from Pger. I also agree with Fred Miller. I think it's just a matter of your color preference as the specs for both are the same.
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I am a professional photographer, and I Love epson. I use the 9600, but they have smaller models available. The canons are getting better as well, but epson is still top notch in my book. Tom
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I have an Epson WF-2540, so it's close. I'm OK with them so far. I've noticed a slight difference in color intensity, but very slight. I got this bunch for less than half of what it would cost to get the Epson make, and pictures come out fine. What's annoying is the error messages the printer sends out after the cartridges are installed telling you they're not authentic Epson, but but then things go quiet. The printer was reasonably priced, but it would cost about two sets of Epson refills and you paid for it again. That's not worth it to me. I will shop around again if I need to, but I will buy these again if the price is right. Hope that helps. I have an Epson WF-2540, so it's close. I'm OK with them so far. I've noticed a slight difference in color intensity, but very slight. I got this bunch for less than half of what it would cost to get the Epson make, and pictures come out fine. What's annoying is the error messages the printer sends out after the cartridges are installed telling you they're not authentic Epson, but but then things go quiet. The printer was reasonably priced, but it would cost about two sets of Epson refills and you paid for it again. That's not worth it to me. I will shop around again if I need to, but I... » Read More I have an Epson WF-2540, so it's close. I'm OK with them so far. I've noticed a slight difference in color intensity, but very slight. I got this bunch for less than half of what it would cost to get the Epson make, and pictures come out fine. What's annoying is the error messages the printer sends out after the cartridges are installed telling you they're not authentic Epson, but but then things go quiet. The printer was reasonably priced, but it would cost about two sets of Epson refills and you paid for it again. That's not worth it to me. I will shop around again if I need to, but I will buy these again if the price is right. Hope that helps. « Show Less
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Bill, not sure if the ICE doesn't work with Kodachrome, or the dmax of the V500 is just insufficient for Kodachrome. I felt my V500 wasn't up to the task regardless, so I went with a slide duplicator on my digital camera. I can pump tons of light through it...but of course I have to deal with the dust manually. ;-)Golfer, I'm not sure what they are doing on the V600, whether they're really using the IR pre-scan to identify flaws (tears, etc) in the print, or they are just "rebranding" digital ICE to include software-based flaw removal.I don't scan enough prints to make it worth finding out. Bill, not sure if the ICE doesn't work with Kodachrome, or the dmax of the V500 is just insufficient for Kodachrome. I felt my V500 wasn't up to the task regardless, so I went with a slide duplicator on my digital camera. I can pump tons of light through it...but of course I have to deal with the dust manually. ;-)Golfer, I'm not sure what they are doing on the V600, whether they're really using the IR pre-scan to identify flaws (tears, etc) in the print, or they are just "rebranding" digital ICE to include software-based flaw removal.I don't scan enough... » Read More Bill, not sure if the ICE doesn't work with Kodachrome, or the dmax of the V500 is just insufficient for Kodachrome. I felt my V500 wasn't up to the task regardless, so I went with a slide duplicator on my digital camera. I can pump tons of light through it...but of course I have to deal with the dust manually. ;-)Golfer, I'm not sure what they are doing on the V600, whether they're really using the IR pre-scan to identify flaws (tears, etc) in the print, or they are just "rebranding" digital ICE to include software-based flaw removal.I don't scan enough prints to make it worth finding out. « Show Less
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It scans photographs pretty well. I don't think it's quite as good as my Epson v500, but it's "good enough" unless you're doing archival work and want the absolute best result you can get. The software does little to no post-processing, and your only choice of output for photographs is JPG (which is always a "lossy" format, as opposed to TIF or other "lossless" format). I don't know if it's the particular JPG compression or the scanner itself, but there is a [very] slight "tiling" effect to the scanned photographs. I suppose overall, I would give it a 7.5/10 for photos. Additionally, since it is a sheetfed scanner, if there is any dust on the scanner "lens", you will end up with a line, as opposed to the V500, so you need to keep that clean. On the plus side, you can scan multiple photos (of approximately the same size) automatically from the document feeder tray, and you can scan the back of the photos at the same time to keep context (many people write notes on the back of photos, which takes twice as much time to scan if you are using a photo scanner). I will upload an example of this scanner vs my V500 in the "customer images" and you can judge for yourself. (edit: never mind...Amazon won't allow me to add customer images for this product) The image is at: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pg9fxsfvvdmutlj/S1300i_vs_V500_comparison.png
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Since this does not work for older, larger negatives I ordered an Epson Perfection V500 from Amazon. Got it today and used it on some old 2.5 X 3.5" B/W negatives from the 1930's. Once I got it figured out it did a great job coverting directly from neg to pos with no extra software needed. I even enlarged some up to 8 X10 and printed them on plain paper and they came out great. Only problem is the precess is slow--about 3 min. per negative once you have it set up and it must be used with your computer. Hope this helps.
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Epson 127 is a high capacity ink. If you Google this question, you can read in detail the difference.
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We used these on our Epson 3020 which has the same technology as the 6020 just not as many bells and whistles. We have also used the Panasonic and Samsung models that Best Buy had in stock for a variety of fits as my son does not like the Epson and prefers the Samsung (cheaper) model. I think anything RF will work as we now have a collection of 6 glasses and I cannot tell the difference in picture quality. The ONLY reason I did not buy more Epson specific models was we had family coming over and no one stocked the Epson I did not have time to order from Amazon. We love our 3D family movie nights!!! We used these on our Epson 3020 which has the same technology as the 6020 just not as many bells and whistles. We have also used the Panasonic and Samsung models that Best Buy had in stock for a variety of fits as my son does not like the Epson and prefers the Samsung (cheaper) model. I think anything RF will work as we now have a collection of 6 glasses and I cannot tell the difference in picture quality. The ONLY reason I did not buy more Epson specific models was we had family coming over and no one stocked the Epson I did not have time to order from Amazon. We love our 3D family movie... » Read More We used these on our Epson 3020 which has the same technology as the 6020 just not as many bells and whistles. We have also used the Panasonic and Samsung models that Best Buy had in stock for a variety of fits as my son does not like the Epson and prefers the Samsung (cheaper) model. I think anything RF will work as we now have a collection of 6 glasses and I cannot tell the difference in picture quality. The ONLY reason I did not buy more Epson specific models was we had family coming over and no one stocked the Epson I did not have time to order from Amazon. We love our 3D family movie nights!!! « Show Less
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I just spoke with an Epson salesperson and he confirms that the 630 comes with the Extra high-capacity color cartridges and has for some time. His actual words were "it has ALWAYS come with the 127 cartridges" but I have have learned to take such info from salespeople with a grain of salt. I have forwarded Epson's current "What's in the Box" ink description to Amazon along with the Epson site link so we shall see if they update the info. FWIW, BH Photo also shows the 630 with the 127 cartridges but I haven't checked on any other sites.
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I have a v500 too. Per the Epson web site, it works with the following scanners: Epson Perfection 2480 PHOTO Epson Perfection 2580 PHOTO Epson Perfection 3490 PHOTO Epson Perfection 3590 PHOTO All discontinued models.